Julie Aelbrecht

Julie Aelbrecht is a meditation and yoga teacher, a certified RYT 500 Yoga Teacher and personal trainer based in Brussels and Lebbeke, Belgium. She began yoga at nineteen to ease back pain from scoliosis. During an intense stretch of work in London media, her practice became a daily thing to look forward to. She then left that career to study yoga and meditation in Asia.

Her training includes silent meditation at the Wat Pa Tam Wua monastery in Northern Thailand, RYT 500 certification, Yin Yoga study, and a meditation teacher training in Rishikesh, India. She taught at the Marnes recovery resort in Spain, a small-scale medical resort, where she designed the yoga and relaxation program together with a medical team and a personal trainer. The program is based on the Trauma-Sensitive Yoga principles developed by Elizabeth Hopper and David Emerson.

In Belgium she teaches a weekly small group class in Lebbeke and works with private clients in Brussels. Her classes are inspired by tradition and adapted with the principles of Yoga for Special Needs and Trauma Sensitive Yoga, so that people move in a kind and conscious way. After a few years of teaching, she chose to focus her work on sleep and rest, and she is developing an audio course on power naps. She also streams yoga classes on Insight Timer and shares sleep and relaxation tips on Instagram in English and Dutch.