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Julie Bohonos (Seibt) | she/her
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I’ll start with a ‘fess up’.
I was once the lycra-clad fitness club manager in leg warmers and a headband, echoing Jane Fonda’s “Go for the burn” and Richard Simmon’s “Wake up and breathe!”
My fascination with fitness probed deeper into the body/mind connection, eventually leading me to a black belt in Kung Fu.
I was young and fit and assumed my frequent back pain was normal.
When I went to my first yoga class, the teacher’s eyes struck a deep chord within me. She had something I really wanted. It was the gentle clarity in her eyes, an ease of being and a caring sense of acceptance that I began to recognize in my most influential teachers.
I am deeply grateful to my teachers - including my Mom who was a yoga teacher before yoga was mainstream - for pointing me home to clarity, ease, and well-being. It feel better in my body now in my late fifties than I did in my twenties and I have more ease and joy in my heart.
Now, my clients are also my teachers as they learn to move better, get out of pain, and into well-being so they can do what they love to do, longer into life.
It brings me joy to see my clients learn to accept themselves for who they are and come home to clarity and ease.
Ease of being is within you, right now. Sometimes we need another to point us home. I’m here for you.
Here are some of my credentials:
IRI Certified iRest® Teacher and Supervisor (2015 www.irest.org)
IAYT certified Yoga Therapist (International Association of Yoga Therapists 2017 C-IAYT)
IRI Certified iRest® Teacher (2015 www.irest.org)
Teaching faculty member, Trauma Informed Yoga Psychology School (www.canmorecounselling.com/yogaschool.html)
Certified Restorative Yoga teacher (Andrea Peloso, 2015)
Certified Yoga Therapist (2013, Susi Hately, Functional Synergy)
Teacher training Yin Yoga with Sarah Powers. (Singapore, 2010)
Master Reiki Teacher (Asian Healing Arts Centre, Thailand, 2009)
Thai Massage Therapy (International Thai Massage School, 2007)
Anahata Yoga Teacher Certification, (Anne Douglas, 2006)
Deep gratitude to my long-standing guiding meditation teachers, Steven Smith and Michele McDonald. (vipassanahawaii.org)
I was once the lycra-clad fitness club manager in leg warmers and a headband, echoing Jane Fonda’s “Go for the burn” and Richard Simmon’s “Wake up and breathe!”
My fascination with fitness probed deeper into the body/mind connection, eventually leading me to a black belt in Kung Fu.
I was young and fit and assumed my frequent back pain was normal.
When I went to my first yoga class, the teacher’s eyes struck a deep chord within me. She had something I really wanted. It was the gentle clarity in her eyes, an ease of being and a caring sense of acceptance that I began to recognize in my most influential teachers.
I am deeply grateful to my teachers - including my Mom who was a yoga teacher before yoga was mainstream - for pointing me home to clarity, ease, and well-being. It feel better in my body now in my late fifties than I did in my twenties and I have more ease and joy in my heart.
Now, my clients are also my teachers as they learn to move better, get out of pain, and into well-being so they can do what they love to do, longer into life.
It brings me joy to see my clients learn to accept themselves for who they are and come home to clarity and ease.
Ease of being is within you, right now. Sometimes we need another to point us home. I’m here for you.
Here are some of my credentials:
IRI Certified iRest® Teacher and Supervisor (2015 www.irest.org)
IAYT certified Yoga Therapist (International Association of Yoga Therapists 2017 C-IAYT)
IRI Certified iRest® Teacher (2015 www.irest.org)
Teaching faculty member, Trauma Informed Yoga Psychology School (www.canmorecounselling.com/yogaschool.html)
Certified Restorative Yoga teacher (Andrea Peloso, 2015)
Certified Yoga Therapist (2013, Susi Hately, Functional Synergy)
Teacher training Yin Yoga with Sarah Powers. (Singapore, 2010)
Master Reiki Teacher (Asian Healing Arts Centre, Thailand, 2009)
Thai Massage Therapy (International Thai Massage School, 2007)
Anahata Yoga Teacher Certification, (Anne Douglas, 2006)
Deep gratitude to my long-standing guiding meditation teachers, Steven Smith and Michele McDonald. (vipassanahawaii.org)
Dr. Melissa Jay is an Indigenous, nehiyaw-Métis member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. The primary location of Canmore Counselling and Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School is located in Chuwapchipchiyan Kudi Bi (translated from Îyârhe Nakoda as “shooting at the willows”), colonially known as Canmore. We are grateful to be located on Treaty 7 territory and the current and ancestral lands of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), which includes of the Bearspaw First Nation, Chiniki First Nation, and Goodstoney First Nation, as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika First Nation, Piikani First Nation, and Kainai First Nation. This is also the home to the Rocky View Métis District 4 within the Battle River Territory. We recognize all Nations who continue to nurture these lands, and we are dedicated to uplifting Truth, language, and culture as essential to right relations. As an act of reconciliation and commitment to decolonization, we are committed to the TRC's Calls to Action.
At Canmore Counselling, we are also privileged to be yoga students, practitioners, and guides. Our offerings centre on the root of yoga as Indigenous to South Asia, and we are grateful to learn from and amplify the South Asian practitioners and teachers whenever possible. We are grateful for the eight limbs of yoga, as taught by Patanjali. It is a joy to walk alongside our incredible alumni of the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School as they create opportunities for care, connection & curiosity within their communities.
We believe wholeheartedly that trauma-informed care requires commitment to community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, and anti-racism. Thank you for being here :)
At Canmore Counselling, we are also privileged to be yoga students, practitioners, and guides. Our offerings centre on the root of yoga as Indigenous to South Asia, and we are grateful to learn from and amplify the South Asian practitioners and teachers whenever possible. We are grateful for the eight limbs of yoga, as taught by Patanjali. It is a joy to walk alongside our incredible alumni of the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School as they create opportunities for care, connection & curiosity within their communities.
We believe wholeheartedly that trauma-informed care requires commitment to community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, and anti-racism. Thank you for being here :)