Julie Blumenthal

I have been teaching yoga since 2003 and offering yoga training and consulting services since 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been living and teaching in Berlin, learning enormous amounts about practice on and off the mat as I add German to English and Sanskrit and jet lag to yama and niyama. Registered with Yoga Alliance since 2003, I am an E-RYT 500, their highest level of teaching credential, as well as having attained the rank of Yogiraj (yoga master) within the ISHTA lineage.I brought the ISHTA trainings to Berlin beginning in 2012, and they are now in their 9th cycle – read more about the trainings here, at ISHTA Yoga Berlin – and in 2017 founded a home for the trainings and ISHTA community in Berlin, Bija Yoga Berlin, in my home kiez (neighborhood) of Kreuzberg.

I am profoundly grateful to all my teachers; to Kirtan for offering me a path for voice, bhakti and joy; and to the mind, body and spirit of all my students and friends for providing an ongoing source of inspiration. I’m continually amazed by the depth and beauty of yoga, and the joy and light it can bring to our lives. I’m thrilled to share this with my fellow explorers however I can.