Julie Rappaport has been a student of yoga for fifteen plus years.
She began her commitment to yoga practice in New York City through several wonderful teachers. Peentz Dubble (Iyengar), Sharon Ganon and David Life (Jivamukti) and Dharma Mittra. In California she continued her studies with Amy Cooper, Rodney Yee, Mark Whitwell, Richard Freeman and more recently with Ramanand Patel, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten.
Julie trained in vinyasa yoga, yoga therapy, and psychology at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai and Ashtanga yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore. She studies North Indian classical vocal music and chant with her music guru Sri Karunamayee of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi.

Julie holds advanced degrees in Psychology and Theatre and writes about yoga for numerous on-line and print magazines. Her yoga influences are many and include Desikachar/ Krishnamacharya, Ashtanga, Vinyasa & Iyengar Yoga, contemporary movement training,yoga from the inner body, personal practice and intuition. Other approaches to body work that shape her teaching include Authentic Movement, Drama therapy, Contact Improvisation (dance) and the arts in general.

Julie was invited to start teaching yoga at the Jivamukti Center, New York in 1989 at the request of her teachers. She believes that yoga practice contains the perfect metaphors for daily life and her approach is playful and challenging as well as meditative.