Julia O’Shea
Amusement...Potential...and Resilience.
Julia was drawn to be a healing mentor at an early age. She was 15 years old when she started working with people in the hospital setting. Early on she learned how to connect with people with compassion and love, regardless of condition. She learned that we are all equally vulnerable, and deserve the best love and support possible. Through her connection to her patients, Julia discovered her own strength and courage to be an educator and advocate for the people she worked with. Julia currently manages the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at the University of Vermont Medical Center and teaches Kaiut Yoga in Burlington Vermont.
Julia’s journey to yoga started while she was studying to be a respiratory therapist. Her research led her to study complementary alternative therapies for asthma, one of which was yoga. Immediately she was drawn to learn more about yoga, specifically how it could help her patients. While at first the focus was to teach others, as she studied and practiced, her path led her into self discovery. As she practiced she started to connect to old injuries, pain, and conditions she had in her body. Through this experience with pain she realized she must find a practice that is more sustainable. Ultimately her pain caused her to stop her physical practice. She became discouraged, and felt hopeless as she attempted to manage her back pain with weekly chiropractor visits and numerous other modalities. Julia continued to study various types of therapeutic styles of yoga, with the hope that she would discover something that felt right in her body.
Enter Kaiut Yoga. Julia had heard about Francisco Kaiut through numerous people in the yoga community while living in Boulder, Colorado. She decided to attend a 3 day workshop in January of 2015. As soon as she walked into the room, she noticed that it was something different about these students and it was not like the typical yoga scene she had experienced prior. Julia could tell that the students knew their bodies, and she knew she was in the right place. As she practiced and learned about the method, she felt her own body healing itself in a way she had never experienced before. She found relief with her own pain, and increased freedom to do more of the things she loved. She knew right away she found what she had been searching for. Time passed, and life happened, and Julia moved to Burlington, Vermont to work in Pulmonary Rehab. After learning there were no Kaiut Teachers in the New England area, she decided to complete her 300 hour Kaiut Yoga Method training in September of 2018 in Toronto, Canada. In January of 2020 she completed her 400 hour Kaiut Yoga Method training in Boulder, Colorado.
Julia currently teaches the Kaiut Yoga Method at the UVM Medical Center to people with chronic conditions in Burlington, Vermont. She connects with people in a safe gentle way which comes from her work as a respiratory therapist. She is grateful to have discovered Kaiut Yoga and loves to be able to share it with her community.
Julia believes we all have an abundance of potential to heal ourselves in various ways. Julia serves to be a positive, guiding influence in people's lives, who helps them to connect to their own healing potential within.