Julia teaches therapeutic yoga, restorative yoga, and chair yoga in New York City and northern New Jersey. In private sessions, she helps individuals with a range of physical and emotional difficulties—including stress, back pain, and chronic illness. She teaches an annual two-day chair yoga teacher training and workshops on a variety of topics, including mudras, chakras, back-care, and stress reduction. She also teaches a year-long 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training as an affiliate of Integrative Yoga Therapy.

When Julia took her first series of yoga classes in the 1970s, she felt as though she had come home to her body. During her career in psychology publishing, she continued yoga studies in Manhattan and at Kripalu, with an early introduction to restorative yoga with Judith Lasater and to the chakras with Todd Norian.

In 2000 Julia made a career change and trained to be a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. She soon followed through with training in Integrative Yoga Therapy and began teaching in the New York area. Subsequently, she became a Relax and Renew Trainer with Judith Lasater and became certified in Yoga of the Heart with Nischala Joy Devi. In addition she has trained in embodied anatomy with Amy Mathews, restorative yoga with Jillian Pransky, and has apprenticed in medicinal herbs with Robin Rose Bennett. Julia is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is a reviewer for their journal.

“Julia Hough is a warm, knowledgeable, thoughtful and patient teacher.”—Ricardo Pia, Briarwood, New York

TEACHING CHAIR YOGA

A Two-day Workshop for Yoga Teachers

 

Saturday and Sunday, OCTOBER 27 and 28, 2012

 

With the correct modifications, Yoga has something to offer practitioners of every age, ability or physical conditioning. In this workshop we explore a full range of adaptations that can be employed to create a safe, satisfying practice. Chair adaptations can help your students increase their flexibility, work with chronic pain, and strengthen what's weak. They can also assist new students feel certain poses more fully.

October 27, 11:00-6:00:  Office Yoga/Using Chair as Prop

What skills are needed to teach people at work, where space and time are limited? We'll cover seated and standing stretches for relieving neck, shoulder and back pain, stress reduction techniques, and movements for arms and hands to counteract repetitive stress. You will also learn asana adaptations that can be incorporated into your current yoga classes. With the help of a chair, younger seniors (baby boomers) can practice sun salutation without compromising their joints.

October 28, 11:00-6:00: Chair Yoga for Elders and Chronically Ill

Very gentle seated stretches combined with breath are powerful ways to alleviate aches and muscular tension. You will learn seated movements and resistance exercises that strengthen major muscles, as well as standing poses that enhance balance. Julia will provide an introduction to mudras, as well as an overview of primary chronic illnesses, resources for further learning, and guided visualizations for pain.

Cost: $300 ($175 for one day) Yoga Alliance CEUs available (12 contact, 4 non-contact)

 "Julia's sensitivity and profound respect comes through for the practice of yoga among those who are frail, elderly, or otherwise uncomfortable with a mat-based practice. Her stress reduction and hand mudra sequence was truly illuminating."
-Sarah D. Meredith, RYT Brooklyn

"One of the most empowering things I learned from Julia is that chair yoga isn't separate from traditional yoga. The core principles are the same. Teaching chair yoga with compassion and seeing the vibrance in each individual student enables me to offer a practice that is rich and dynamic for all beings."
--Dana Melillo, RYT Manhattan