What Clients Say
Testimonials from Clients
Real stories of healing, transformation, and renewed vitality from Julia's students and clients.
★★★★★
Jan Patterson
California
Yoga Therapy with Julia is so much more comprehensive than working out at the gym, which I was doing before I met Julia. I'm happy that I found her before I had that surgery that I was dreading. Last fall, I was hiking some rocks on a trail, right on my back. After that fall, I was incapacitated. Yet, 5 sessions with Julia created the most complete recovery, and I never came back to pain. I am so relaxed!
★★★★★
Cris Hamilton
California
In search of healing my shoulder instability and kyphosis (rounded back, forward head posture), I've tried many people including bodyworkers, yoga teachers and physical therapists without much success. I am now standing with my posture and stabilizing my shoulder joints like Julia has. She's a miracle worker!
Yoga Classes
★★★★★
A number of years ago, an accident blew out three cervical discs in my spine. I was taken to see several physicians, all of whom told me I would never walk again. I was bed-ridden for two years and crawled in the bathroom daily.
In time, I could not only walk, but I could go up and downstairs. I decided to return to yoga. I commenced classes with Julia Lorimer, a very experienced yoga therapy instructor. I began to feel much less nagging nerve pain and back pain.
I returned to my doctors and shocked them all. They asked what factor I thought made the difference and I told them that my yoga instructor, Julia, had enabled me to live a normal life again for the first time in almost a decade.
My life has been completely changed for the better since I met Julia. I cannot thank her enough for what she has contributed to my healing process. Where physicians gave me no hope, Julia gave me the internal power to heal myself. I am able to walk easily and pain-free today.
In time, I could not only walk, but I could go up and downstairs. I decided to return to yoga. I commenced classes with Julia Lorimer, a very experienced yoga therapy instructor. I began to feel much less nagging nerve pain and back pain.
I returned to my doctors and shocked them all. They asked what factor I thought made the difference and I told them that my yoga instructor, Julia, had enabled me to live a normal life again for the first time in almost a decade.
My life has been completely changed for the better since I met Julia. I cannot thank her enough for what she has contributed to my healing process. Where physicians gave me no hope, Julia gave me the internal power to heal myself. I am able to walk easily and pain-free today.
Private Yoga Therapy & Bodywork
★★★★★
I have been working with Julia for approximately one year. I started with her when I had severe neck pain from an old accident compounded by years of working and sitting. Even with a standing desk, I was uncomfortable and developing a hump in my neck. Julia started with that issue. Within a few weeks of undergoing her particular methods of applying yoga techniques to the body, my neck began to change substantially from a source of great pain and anxiety to what it was supposed to be — a functional part of my body.
Julia is completely versed in the anatomy of the body and a certified yoga therapist. What is so compelling about her work is that while using that knowledge to adjust and work on changing the structural issues that develop over the years, she also helps you address your own body as its own unique vessel. If you have soft-tissue issues, Julia is a great person to help you with body pain — she is extremely sensitive, and you will not feel embarrassed or judged. I cannot thank her enough for the integrity and truly thoughtful way she conducts her work. I encourage anyone with significant issues to contact Julia and get help, as she is truly able to help.
Julia is completely versed in the anatomy of the body and a certified yoga therapist. What is so compelling about her work is that while using that knowledge to adjust and work on changing the structural issues that develop over the years, she also helps you address your own body as its own unique vessel. If you have soft-tissue issues, Julia is a great person to help you with body pain — she is extremely sensitive, and you will not feel embarrassed or judged. I cannot thank her enough for the integrity and truly thoughtful way she conducts her work. I encourage anyone with significant issues to contact Julia and get help, as she is truly able to help.
★★★★★
I found a trusted restorative yoga therapy teacher in Julia.
Renowned Author, Therapist & Public Speaker on Yoga and Sacred Centers — CA
★★★★★
I go to Julia when I'm in pain for hands-on bodywork, informed by years of Iyengar yoga study with me.
Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher
★★★★★
Due to my stiff ankles from a bad ankle sprain, I thought I would never be able to hike around Lake Ross. After only one bodywork session with Julia, my ankle gained enough flexibility to walk around the lake without pain. I'm so happy to have my mobility and freedom back.
Larkspur, CA
★★★★★
After two weeks of working with Julia I was pain free for the first time in 30 years. Her yoga therapy instruction gave me relief from pain I couldn't achieve through years of physical therapy, medications, and two spinal operations. The exercise program she designed for my unique back history gave me true hope for a life without pain.
Fairfax, CA
★★★★★
For 20 years, Julia has helped me through pain episodes. Early on she taught me special breathing practices for recovering from hyperventilation and more recently how to break the cycle of intense traumatic pain with breathing.
Artist, Stinson Beach
★★★★★
I had a bad limp in my hip, and Julia reduced it by 70% in the first session. Hip replacement surgery is not an option for me. In addition to reducing the grinding hip pain, Julia showed me how to improve my posture, gait and alignment in my hip, back and neck by using yoga props at home. All this in only a few sessions!
Sausalito, CA
★★★★★
Julia's coaching sessions have changed my life. I am more confident and assertive, and generally comfortable with myself and others. Her meditations have taught me a reliable way to find my own center when I get out of balance.
Los Angeles, CA
Yoga Retreats
★★★★★
Julia has a deep understanding of how the body works and she teaches effective methods that helped me to heal my pain. I have been practicing yoga over 35 years and Julia's yoga classes made more impact than any yoga classes or retreats I have attended.
Yoga Student from Annual Back Care Retreat in PA
★★★★★
A few years back I had a major back problem and the only option left for me was surgery. Julia agreed to help me through yoga. Today, because of her Therapeutic Yoga work on me, I am free from back problems, without surgery. I requested Julia to offer a Therapeutic Yoga retreat at Mangalika Gurukulum to help others. I strongly recommend you attend Julia's retreats if you are having back problems.
★★★★★
I went to thoroughly attend an intensive chronic back care retreat with Julia Lorimer, who made everyone in attendance glad to be there. For the second year in a row Julia demonstrated to all in attendance why we changed our schedules to be there. The group left with satisfaction and hopes to return again next year. The group had doctors and science people, folk and just normal people in the ranks and we all bonded and shared well.
Yoga Student from Annual Retreat in PA