FLOW | Vinyasa - Wednesdays at 6pm
NOURISH | Yin Yasa - Thursdays at 12pm
Julia Hollenberg
Julia is a yoga teacher of 15 years, breathwork facilitator, and a Food + Body Therapist. She is passionate about helping people embody their life through movement and mindfulness, to create a trusting and peaceful relationship to their body, and to awaken to their innate wisdom and love.
Julia’s teaching aims to help students cultivate steady inner ground to dance with life’s mysterious unfolding with equanimity and a tender, courageous heart.
A seamless blend of physicality and spirituality, Julia’s asana classes are a portal to connection with Self. Her clear and practical approach to teaching yoga and commitment to yoga as a body-inclusive space aims to create an accessible in-class experience. With her work as a Food + Body Therapist as a backdrop, she is always oriented toward providing deep nourishment for your body, mind, and wild heart.
Julia draws on buddhist teachings, tantric philosophy, archetypal stories, mindfulness practices from eclectic traditions, and her own personal journey of awakening to guide her students in cultivating self-awareness and self-compassion. She studied at ISHTA Yoga in 2008-2009.
Julia has a small group Food + Body Therapy private practice. As an advocate of body liberation for all, she helps people break free from restrictive eating and body shame so they can live their most full and vibrant lives.
Julia feels most alive in the beauty of nature, ecstatic dancing, and witnessing the courageous act of humans learning how to be human.
Julia teaches a slow and soulful class infused with yoga philosophy, designed to allow you the space to breathe fully, explore your felt experience, and build heat & steadiness to harness your mind. She provides clear guidance, and plenty of space to explore your inner landscape. Her aim is to provide a deeply nourishing experience for the body, nervous system, mind, and spirit.
Julia's private practice is located in the Ahimsa Wellness space, behind the studio.
Learn more about her Food + Body Therapy practice here: juliahollenberg.com
Unbound is an invitation into expansion, release, and freedom—an embodied experience of reconnecting with your limitless potential and innate wisdom. Breath and sound are the medicine.
In modern life, our minds are often constrained by conditioning and inherited beliefs; our spirits by ego and identity; and our bodies by chronic stress and held tension. This practice is designed to gently loosen those bindings.
Through conscious connected breathwork, we use the breath as a vehicle to move beyond the habitual, thinking mind and into a more spacious, open state of awareness. This journey supports access to deeper insight, emotional & energetic release, and may bring a felt sense of inner freedom or deep knowing. At the same time, it works directly with the nervous system, cultivating resilience, flexibility, and a greater capacity to meet life’s challenges with presence and ease.
After the breathwork opens and softens the places within that are ready to shift, you’ll be guided into a closing sound bath. Crystal bowls create healing vibrations to support deep relaxation, nervous system regulation, and gentle landing.
You may leave feeling refreshed and grounded, tender and open, deeply relaxed, or carrying a clear insight—a quiet pearl of wisdom arising from within.
This practice is complementary to many therapies, catalyzing and deepening your already-unfolding process. It is also for the psychedelic-curious, and for those working with psychedelics; breathwork serves as a powerful intention-setting or integration experience, helping translate expanded states into embodied wisdom.
This experience is for you if you're:
seeking nervous system support & regulation
seeking avenues for deep relaxation
feeling “in your head”, mentally overworked, or stuck in habitual patterns
Seeking clarity and insight
A curious soul wanting to explore the deeper aspects of your being
psychedelic-curious
seeking intention-setting or integration work to enhance psychedelic work
A beginner or experienced breathwork practitioner
seeking healing but unable to engage in physical activity or yoga
Contraindications:Breathwork is very safe. And because it activates the nervous system, email Julia to discuss if breathwork is appropriate for you if you have any of the following: Heart conditions (history of heart attack, stroke, uncontrolled high blood pressure), eye conditions (glaucoma, detached retina), PTSD or other mental health condition requiring hospitalization in the last 10 years (please discuss with your therapist to get clearance), and history of seizures. Julia can be reached at: julia@juliahollenberg.com
Preparing for breathwork: Please eat a nourishing snack or meal about 2 hours before the journey. Wear comfortable non-restrictive clothing. We have mats, blankets, and bolsters in the studio for your comfort. If you wish, bring any additional props or accessories that allow you to feel comfortable and cozy in a reclined position. You may also bring an eye shade, and journal if desired. Most importantly, come with a curious and open mind. It’s recommended to not make plans after the journey that would be stimulating, to allow for a gentle and restful landing.
UNBOUND: Breathwork + Sound Bath
Let’s have a different conversation about nourishment.
Many women have been taught by diet culture that nourishment is something to earn, control, or “get right.”
That hunger is a problem to manage.
That rest, pleasure, and care are indulgences instead of your birthright.
And caring for yourself turns heavy with obligation.
Unstarved is a half-day, in-person retreat inviting you to gently unravel those messages, and to reconnect with nourishment as a lived and felt experience, foundational to your very being.
This retreat is for women who sense that something deeper has run dry, has been depleted.
What do you long for? What is needed to return you to wholeness, vitality, and your joy in living?
In a teaching conversation, Julia will share on the often unseen forces shaping our relationship to food and nourishment. Together, we’ll explore the difference between needs and wants, why intuitive eating can feel unattainable, and how attachment and trauma influence our relationship to our bodies and their cues, like hunger, fullness, and desire.
We’ll gently unpack why nourishment is not just about food, but about safety, and how the nervous system must feel supported in order to receive.
Through accessible, grounding practices that invite regulation and presence, we’ll explore nourishment not as a rigid set of rules, but as relationship - a dynamic dance between you, your body, your heart, and your environment. Drawing from both the wisdom of yoga and Western psychology, this experience offers a compassionate path toward nourishment, satisfaction, and deeper self-connection.
We will weave experiences of mindful somatic inquiry, gentle breath practices, organic movement inspired by yoga & dance, therapeutic teaching, connection & discussion, ritual, and a nourishing sound bath to close — curated to help you drop from the mind into the body and (re)discover your body’s wisdom, and what truly feeds you.
This retreat is for you if you’re longing to…
feel more at home in your body.
quiet diet culture’s noise and reclaim your inner authority.
release shame around food and body.
feed what has been depleted
revive your vitality
experience nourishment as joyful & easeful.
reconnect with community and shared humanity.
learn tools to regulate and support your nervous system.
cultivate self kindness and quiet your inner critic.
approach self-care with gentleness rather than pressure.
You may leave feeling…
more connected to your body.
more regulated and grounded.
more resourced with somatic practices.
more able to receive nourishment — not just food, but joy, rest, beauty, and connection.
more empowered to reject harmful cultural narratives around bodies and wellness.
more inspired to continue a journey of deep self-awareness and authentic care.
Come as you are; no fixing, no performing.
Leave feeling resourced, in body, nervous system, and spirit.
If this speaks to you, trust it. Step into this slow, connected space, where nourishment becomes an act of liberation.