{"id":3452,"date":"2015-02-03T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theyogasanctuary.biz\/staging\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:02:28","slug":"staff-spotlight-julie-huffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/staff-spotlight-julie-huffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight\u2014Julie Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have always enjoyed moving around. After teaching elementary school for 10 years, and the birth of our son, I began teaching fitness part time at our YMCA\u2014aerobics, strength training, weights, loud music, etc. If that wasn’t enough, I took up running and competed in 5K runs until I injured my knee and required surgery. Something needed to change!<\/p>\n

I had taken a few yoga classes, but we didn’t have a class in our small town in Missouri. I heard about a weekend teacher training and decided to try it. Essentially, I began teaching yoga before I had really developed my own practice! Even though I was leading classes, I felt the benefits and liked the mindful movements and peaceful feeling left in my body after practicing.<\/p>\n

In 2008 we came to Punta Gorda to spend the winter and I discovered The Yoga Sanctuary. Leaving my home and family has always been difficult so attending classes was definitely on the top of my list, and I was a regular at the studio.<\/p>\n

I began to realize that yoga was more than the asana and that the mat was a quiet and private place where I could be to sort out my thoughts and emotions. That is what now continues to draw me back to my mat each day.<\/p>\n

In 2012 I enrolled in The Yoga Sanctuary\u2019s teacher training program. I can’t say enough wonderful things about the gift of yoga given to us by Bonnie and Jennifer. They encouraged us to develop a home practice which would then guide and inspire us in teaching our students. I was finally starting to get this!<\/p>\n

Teaching classes at TYS has been a blessing for me. My greatest joy is my students. We are on this beautiful journey together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always enjoyed moving around. After teaching elementary school for 10 years, and the birth of our son, I began teaching fitness part time at our YMCA\u2014aerobics, strength training, weights, loud music, etc. If that wasn’t enough, I took up running and competed in 5K runs until I injured my knee and required surgery. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}