About Juliet
Juliet has been practicing yoga for over five years and is a 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher. She completed Art of Assisting with Paige Eleison, and is working towards becoming a Nu-Power yoga instructor in November, 2016.
Juliet is also a qualified Nutritional Therapist, completing her training at The Institute for Optimal Nutrition in 2004 with distinction. She has worked as a researcher on books such as Food Doctor for Babies and Children and has lectured on women and children’s health across London. She enjoys working with people of all ages and stages of life, empowering them to change the way they feel by changing the way they think about food.
Juliet is a member of The British Association of Nutritional Therapists and continues to explore her passion of nutrition by continually advancing her education.
Juliet feels lucky to be able to merge her love of nutrition with her passion for yoga.
Born in London. Raised in Switzerland. Lived in Paris. Then returned to London. Juliet currently lives in London with her husband and their three daughters.
“Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.”
― Jason Crandell
As a trained Nutritional Therapist, my focus has always been to make people feel better. Giving people the tools to take charge of their own health and empower them to become responsible for their own wellbeing is what I love to do.
Nutrition alone, however - although an essential piece of the puzzle - does not hold the key to optimal health. Seeking health is a journey that changes as we go through different phases of our lives. It is not a static state; the body adapts and changes and is in constant flux, just as our energy changes from day to day. The body is a magnificent machine whose sole focus is to maintain balance and health whatever we throw at it – It seeks to be healthy and to fight disease.
Approaching health by accepting and being compassionate with ourselves is paramount. Nourishing ourselves with healing foods, foods that energise, restore, and repair is an crucial part of being healthy. However, too often we neglect the mind and the central part it plays on our mental and physical well being.
A basic example of how fundamental a part the mind plays on the body is the feeling of homesickness, a sensation so many of us have experienced at some point in our lives. It is the mind and thought patterns that create a physical sensation within us – we experience a feeling of sickness, even a physical sensation inside.
Understanding the link between our minds and our thought patterns is vital to addressing health issues. As we shift our perspective, we create acceptance of the circumstances around us, as well as within us. It is then that this mental nourishment and nutrition can do their work. Our mental and physical bodies are able to work synergistically, energy is restored, and healing can take place.
Yoga is gateway to accessing our inner self, to look inwards, and to offer another way of seeing things. Yoga offers the physical practice, allowing our bodies to become strong and flexible, but it also has the ability to shift our perspective. We become aware -- we become an observer of our own thought patterns.
Yoga is more than the physical practice of Asana (the poses), it allows us to focus within and therefore allows us to change the default pattern of thinking. We are then able to create more peace within, more space to become less reactive. Stress is allowed to drain away, leaving more room for possibility and transformation.
As our mindset shifts, our body becomes more open to change and to healing. By teaching yoga alongside nutrition, health is approached in a more holistic way.
And it works.
