Hey loves! I just got back from an overwhelming weekend in San Francisco with 5 different Master teachers and several amazing strangers that became friends. There is too much to tell, so I put it into a neat little package that’s called 10 Things I Learned: Read Day One here Day Two Here Day Three [...]
Hey folks! This website is currently undergoing scrutiny and revamping by the terribly talented Chris Gilpin. It will be pretty and interesting and you will love it when it’s done. But in the meantime, I think you should consider ‘liking’ my Facebook page, facebook.com/juliejcp, where I post my most recent articles, snippets of poetry from [...]
I’m shocked and awed that my most recent article, published on elephantjournal.com, has received over 37,000 views at last count. This article is about the beauty in the breakdown: how being stuck on your floor crying in a pile, lost, uncertain, and fearful, is potentially the best thing that’s ever happened to you. I’ve had [...]
Hey everyone! Summer brings news of things, floods of things, yoga, poetry, a new season, who knows what else. In case you haven’t already seen it, my latest article on elephant journal is called Why Yoga Can’t Fix Your Broken Life, and it’s true, trust me. Life breaks, but it’s going to be okay. Read [...]
Hey everyone! I just came off of a wonderful week at the Vancouver International Poetry Festival where I attended workshops, listened to lots of poetry, and competed in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. It was a pretty fantastic week overall, with lots of poets from around Canada and the States, and it was such a [...]
A four-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training with Julie Peters You know that feeling when you leave a class and you just feel fantastic, like all is right with the world? Or have you ever left a class feeling disjointed and even a little irritated? Well it ain’t magic: it’s sequencing. Of all the aspects [...]
Hey everyone! Thanks for checking in. I just want you to know that my slow takeover of every kind of social media is going really well. I finally figured out that having a Facebook ‘Page’ will allow me to post my events, poetry, yoga stuff, and whatever I want, and I can get that to [...]
Recently I decided to set my intentions toward integrating my two lives: poetry and yoga. I’m not going to call it ‘Yoetry,’ in case you were wondering. But I’ve really noticed that when I am immersed in poetry, when I am writing and listening lots, my instructions are a lot more interesting and clear in [...]
Believe it or not, I am most certainly spearheading a revolutionary movement: Men doing Yoga! Me teaching men doing yoga! Well, me and Charlie Pentland, who is also really awesome. It’s pretty simple: every Sunday, starting January 1st, we will get together from 6-7pm and work on opening up the hips, hamstrings and shoulders: tight [...]
Well, for one, if you are interested in the yoga side of things, I highly recommend you subscribe to my blog, http://thelabofdrj.blogspot.com/. I’ve been writing pretty regularly, and enjoying airing my thoughts on the world of yoga. I’d love it if you’d read it. In other news, the universe keeps nudging me to keep writing [...]
Yoga has definitely taken over for me these days, and I’ve been suffering through a monthslong dry spell in terms of writing. Desperate, I turned to old faithful, my blog, and started writing in it again. I couldn’t care less, really, whether or not anyone reads it (though I appreciate it if you do!) but [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve been around this website here–things have been pretty crazy in Julieland–as always. I made my very first trip to Columbus, Ohio, to compete in the Women of the World Poetry Slam as one of 72 selected ladies from around North America and had a humbling and terrifying and totally [...]
That’s right, it’s official, I am now a Registered Yoga Teacher. AND I’ll be doing a Yoga for Writers workshop over 6 weeks starting at the end of July. This course will be a fun, dynamic, totally unpretentious yoga workshop appropriate for complete beginners. The idea is that people who sit a lot and work [...]