Julie is a happily married wife and mother of three twenty-something young men. She has been teaching yoga to adults and children for more than a dozen years, and for most of that time, has been bringing Kidding Around Yoga to kids aged 2-12 throughout the Rochester, NY area.  She incorporates KAY into preschool, elementary and after school programs around Rochester, as well is in private child and family classes and Girl Scout troops.  During school hours, Julie works as a one-to-one aide to a special needs student at her local Middle School, where she also uses her KAY toolbox to promote mindfulness practices within the classroom setting.   Julie is also a certified Pilates instructor, and in her free time is working on her first novel, an historical fiction story with the local Erie Canal as backdrop.  As a veteran KAY teacher trainer, Julie continues to be OMazingly excited to bring KAY to more and more adults around Western NY who work with children in a wide variety of capacities.