Juliana Monin

As a yoga teacher I am most interested in unhooking yoga from its contemporary framework of attainment and struggle towards a future result, in a remarrying of yoga to its tantric origins, as each person’s means to directly participate in the strength and nurturing of life. My yoga studies began in ISHTA (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, & Ayurveda) at Be Yoga/Yoga Works under Alan Finger, however my main study has been with Mark Whitwell, student of Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. I attempt to honor this lineage, teaching yoga as Hatha, the magic of opposites merging: inhale with exhale, above with below, inner with outer, female with male, to remind us of who we are- that we contain everything. For the past year and a half I have been traveling and teaching with Mark throughout North America, Asia, Europe, and the South Pacific. My background is a BA in psychology from Amherst College, a short-lived dance career in NYC, and random interests in feminist theory, midwifery, and Afro-Caribbean religion.