ABOUT ME

Julia Kannewischer

MISSION:

Through teaching + performance I transform energy within me and other people, as well as the space – which creates community, healing, awakening to the self + knowledge of its physical body, growth and progress.

ORIGIN STORY:

Movement has always been a tool for me to express and articulate myself. Through yoga it also became a tool to heal physical + emotional pain, recover from depression and comfort myself as I am walking along the path of a professional dancer. Refining the ability to articulate my body refines my ability to express myself.All movement material and teaching, which is passing through me, enriches my teaching.I started dancing at the age of 5 in the TanzAtelierZug, where I took classes in ballet, jazz and modern dance throughout my childhood and teenage years, and where I also collected my first teaching experiences. After graduation from Kantonsschule Zug 2011, I did my professional dance education in Copenhagen, Munich and Kassel (2011-2015). The following two seasons 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 I was working full-time as a dancer in the contemporary dance company ‘Divadlo Studio Tanca’ in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.During my time in Munich, I discovered yoga and practiced intensely, which led me to establish my own daily practice, a constant in my life ever since.When I was living in Slovakia, I was teaching regular ballet classes. It was also during those two years, when I started teaching yoga, (for the dance company, private classes), which led to the decision to finally do my yoga teacher certification (200h Yoga Alliance Certification) at Yoga Beach House in June 2017, which then spilled me into the journey of teaching yoga in different contexts and formats.When I took the decision to pursue the carrier of a professional dancer, I didn’t realise, that I also set myself up on a journey of profound exploration of my own body. Throughout the years I widened my knowledge about different ways of stretching and strengthening in order to develop my physicality, as I hadn’t been born overly flexible. It has been and still is a path of individual research, strong-minded discipline and most of all continuing interest in the human anatomy. The discovery of yoga opened up a whole new world of possibilities in physical and mental progress to me, which didn’t only match my personality, but has been supporting me on my path as a dancer ever since.Having a long history of depression and anxiety yoga paired with a pure and healthy lifestyle has so far been the most effective tool for an on going process of healing and the elevation of my energy levels.

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