Feature Teacher – Julia Moffitt

September 29th, 2013

Meet Julia! This photo captures her spirit so beautifully. She will be teaching class on Saturday morning at Ft Zach Oct 5th and 12th, as well as many other locations in Key West. We hope you get a chance to share her passion and joy for the yoga path soon. In the meantime here is your opportunity to get to know her a bit.

1. Do you remember what brought you to practice Yoga?
I was running long distances and wasn’t very inspired to stretch, though I knew I should. One month I saw a studio was offering new students a great monthly unlimited rate, and I figured I should try yoga finally.

2. What was the inspiration that motivated you to become a yoga teacher?
I decided to take a teacher training not because I wanted to teach, but because I wanted to understand more about yoga, historically and theoretically. As part of the training students of course must teach. When we reached that point in the training I found I enjoying sharing and activating the theoretical while leading an asana. And the teacher part of the training was suddenly awakened in me!

3. How does yoga help you?
Yoga reminds me that learning never ever ends, and everything that I love and dislike can change in an instant. Yoga keeps me humble.

4. Describe yourself in 5 words?
Dedicated, eager, poor-comedian, compassionate, reliable.

5. Other than yoga, what passion(s) do you have?
Cooking, eating, travel, eating, eating, long conversations that seem to only last moments with good friends.

6. If you could be anyone else for a day who would it be?
I wouldn’t. Though if I could be an animal I would choose a horse.

7. Downtime, what do you love to do with it?
Gosh, I’m such a dork. Yoga, practicing Thai massage on willing friends, and eating ice cream.

8. Favorite pose – what is it and why?
Parivrtta parsvakonasana. For me, stillness in the pose comes from the intense internal sensations of movement and dynamic energy swirling from to center and radiating from each end of your body. I definitely have the feeling of my energy moving beyong the boundry of my physical body.