Yoga Mama Founder
Julie Wilson
Hi, I'm Julie Wilson the woman behind Yoga Mama.
After being faced with a number of health challenges and life changing events in my mid 30’s, I felt like I'd lost touch with who I was and what I wanted in life. Not knowing exactly how it would help but keen to do something positive, I embarked on my first yoga teacher training and found some healthy perspective along with many tools to help heal my body, mind and spirit. That was in 2013.
With my teaching and ongoing learning I've realised that what I seek for myself and my yoga students is to find ways to move with ease, to maintain strength, stability, flexibility and functional movement so we can keep doing the things we love in to our 90's and beyond!
This is the fundamental way I move my body and teach my classes. I truly believe that through specific physical movements integrated with the breath and focused attention and intention, we can nourish our organs, joints, nervous system, improve our response to stress and reconnect to our sense of self to live a full and vibrant life.
Fertility classes have a slightly different focus, to find out why I started teaching this style watch my fertility story below.
Our Yoga Classes
Yoga Mama yoga classes offer an integrated approach to yoga, with a foundation of Hatha yoga, some vinyasa sequences and a focus on safe alignment and breath-movement integration.
We have a range of class styles and duration available:
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Fertility yoga - gentle practices for women trying to conceive
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Flow yoga - general classes with some flow sequences and some slower holds
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Beginners yoga - detailed alignment cues and key safe yoga principles to help you gain confidence
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Studio classes - join us in person at our studio in sunny Whangarei, New Zealand
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Private sessions - in studio or virtual sessions to help you with a specific movement goal
