About
About Juliana Bruni
A native Brazilian, mother, surfer, and traveler, Juliana brings a high level of enthusiasm and passion to her teaching and treatments. A Nationally certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Juliana is a respected and well-known Spa industry mentor, with more than 20 years of professional experience as a massage therapist, Spa consultant, bodywork teacher, Yoga instructor, and hosted many Yoga Retreats in Brazil, Hawaii, Costa Rica. Juliana has been working as a Spa Consultant for Resort/Spa industry worldwide and has introduced Holistic training to top Spa’s destinations through Central America, South America.
Juliana began practicing yoga and studying Holistic Health 25 years ago after loosing her mom with breast cancer at age 36, and her dad from a heart attack at age 56. It was the darkest time of her life. She moved to California and immediately immersed herself in all yoga she could find, this time in her life has inspired her to teach and study Holistic Health. While she explored yoga, holistic nutrition, and energy flow in California she also travel to the Amazon Forest in Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, where she spent time with Shamans who taught her some of their healing knowledge.
Juliana Bruni is a passionate, inspiring, and highly skilled bodywork and Yoga teacher who has taught both nationally and internationally. She is known for her dynamic and creative sequencing, clear and precise alignment instruction and down-to-earth approach to bringing yogic philosophy to life on and off the mat. She is dedicated to uplifting and empowering her clients and students by cultivating a safe space for true transformation. In her treatments, she moves seamlessly through the body correcting and nurturing. Juliana has had the experience of working with diverse groups of students, including those who are physically challenged.
She has an array of teachers and people who have influenced her from the Shamans of South America, world-renowned spa educators, yogi and dear friend, Kathy Lee Kappmeier-Foust and her father a holistic heatlth lover. Juliana is skilled in all types of massage including Dr. Vodder’s Manual Lymph drainage. She is also a certified Yoga instructor of many different styles of Yoga including Hatha Yoga, Asthanga Yoga, Anusara, Iyengar , Hot Yoga, Yoga Fit, Indigo Yoga for Children. She is also a certified Lifeguard, Arthritis Foundation teacher, Fitness and dance instructor by AFAA and certified Personal Trainer by ACE. She is currently working on her nursing practitioner degree as well her Acupunture degree.
Juliana currently lives in Encinitas, California, a small surf yoga and holistic community where she leads Bodywork classes, yoga classes, workshops, local retreats, yoga immersions, Teacher Training programs, and also works extensively with private clientele.
In her free time, Juliana loves to travel, surf , spend time with her daughter and surf girlfriends in the water , as a world traveler Juliana brings all the magic and beauty from all different culture into her yoga classes, bodywork classes and treatment creating a fun way of learning. She has spent much of her time in Central America, South America and Asia, volunteering in orphanages as well offering her bodywork and yoga wherever she goes. She hosts Yoga retreats in Brazil, Hawaii, Bali and Costa Rica.