About Me

Julie Turner

I'm passionate about improving quality of life through movement.

By releasing tension, opening tightness, healing injuries, and creating better range of motion, you will be inspired to love your body and take better care of yourself. The result is happiness and comfort on physical, mental, and emotional levels.

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My Bio

Julie has more than 20 years of experience in ballet, modern and social dance, Pilates, yoga, and manual fascia release. Her career began as a professional dancer in New York City after she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts.

She performed regularly with various modern dance companies and acted as the resident dancer for a living art installation in Manhattan. While in New York, she began to understand the healing powers of movement through her opportunities as a performer and her work as a social dance and Pilates instructor. Inspired to continue her education, Julie graduated with an MFA from George Washington University in 2017.

Previous to that she completed teacher training programs in Pilates, dance, and energy healing. Julie is a breast cancer exercise specialist, certified through The Pink Ribbon Program, Inc. She is also a Reiki master practitioner. Her other certifications include comprehensive Pilates Mat with Steele Pilates, a 500-hour comprehensive Pilates certificate with Balanced Body University, and Social Dance Certification with Start Dancing NYC, and Reiki from Reiki master, Jamie Wozny.

She holds continuing education certificates in prenatal/post-partum Pilates, sports conditioning, osteoporosis, scoliosis, sciatica, S-I dysfunction, and myo-fascia release. She also holds a certificate in Body Brain Connect, which bridges the fields of brain science and movement practice.

Qualifications

MFA, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. (2017) (thesis topic-emotional embodiment and expression through movement)
BFA, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (2004)
Comprehensive Pilates Certification (500 hours), Balanced Body University, New
York, NY, Lesley Powell

Certified Trauma-Informed Coach, The Center For Healing, Melbourne, Australia
Reiki Master (levels I, II, III, and master level), Los Angeles, CA, Jamie Wozny
Pink Ribbon Certification, Los Angeles, CA (safe and healthy movement after, and during, breast cancer treatment to help the body’s healing response)
Comprehensive Pilates Mat Certification, Steele Pilates, New York, NY, Teri Steele
Social Dance Certification, Start Dancing NYC, New York, NY, Erin Bomboy
Pain, Proprioception, and Fascia, Birmingham, AL, Andrew Brown and Margaret Pittinger (the connective tissue system in our bodies and how it helps us understand our pain)
Body Brain Connect, New Orleans, LA, Anne Bishop (the connection between brain-based education and movement in the body)
Pilates for Sciatica, Scoliosis and S-I dysfunction, New York, NY, Kuan hui Chew
Pilates for Osteoporosis, New York, NY, Rebekah Rotstein