I am accountable to myself, my clients, my community, and this earth.
Below is a list of my education, job experience, trainings I’ve taken, and the people, books, and voices that have helped shape and inform my work.
This is an ever evolving document and I invite feedback, ideas, and blessings along the way.
Education
University of Washington, Seattle — Bachelor of Arts
Sept 2011 - March 2014
Received an interdisciplinary degree from the Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) department. Studied SE Asian Language and Literature and photomedia. I completed a capstone project where I traveled and studied how different cultures heal and process trauma.
Bellevue College, Seattle — Associate's Degree
Sept 2008 - June 2010
Yogalife, Seattle — E-RYT 200
Sept. 2010 - May 2011
Trainings
Grasp at the Root, Uprooting White Supremacy from Healing Spaces with Europa Grace, Victoria Swift Rutledge and Day Elliot
Teaching Trans Inclusive Yoga with Alle K.
Intro to Tarot with Lauren McAlpin
Activism for HSPs and Introverts with Omkari Williams
With the Earth as our Witness A Body-based Practice Circle for Dismantling White Body Supremacy with Deborah King & Rosa Vissers
Trauma Informed Trainings with:
Street Yoga, The Veterans Yoga Project, and Transcending Sexual Trauma Through Yoga
Bystander Intervention training with Hollaback!
Explore More Summit and Radical Business Summit with Dawn Serra
Cultural Competency workshop & Seeing the Water training with 8 Limbs Yoga
150 Hr. Within You Mentorship Certification that included astrology, yoga anatomy, Sanskrit, etc.
50 Hr. Yin Certification with Pam Chang
25 Hr. Laughing Yoga Certification
Functional Anatomy Training with Richelle Richard and Chiara Guerrieri
Professional Experience
Self Employed —Yoga Teacher and Photographer
March 2011 - Present | Full Time
Teach body-based interventions to trauma survivors and lead public yoga classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings.
Photographed headshots, weddings, corporate events, and boudoir.
Ignite Travel and Trainings — Co-Owner and Yoga Teacher
March 2018 - August 2020 | Part Time
Designed and led two 200 hour trauma informed yoga teacher trainings and four international yoga retreats.
Kamala Yoga and Psychology — Yoga Teacher
Sept 2014 - Nov. 2018 | Part Time
Offered body-based interventions and coping skills to folks at Fairfax Hospital, an in patient psychiatric facility.
People, Books, and Voices that have helped shape me
bell hooks, all about love
Sam Irby, wow, no thank you, we are never meeting in real life
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist, Hunger, Not That Bad
Emily Nagoski, Come As You Are, Burnout
Emilia Nagoski, Burnout
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body is Not an Apology
David Treleaven, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
Donna Farhi, Brining Yoga to Life
Cassandra Snow, Queering the Tarot
Lindy West, shrill
adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism
J. Krishnamurti, Think on These Things
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga
George Feurstein, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali (translation)
Rebecca Solint, Men Explain Things to Me
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Podcasts
Prentis Hemphill, Finding Our Way
Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, Still Processing
Esther Perel, Where Should We Begin?
Berne Brown, Unlocking Us
… and many others …
Me and Emi, my love on my 33rd birthday
My full name is Julia Barroetabena Canfield, I was named after my great grandma who immigrated to the United States in 1916 from the Basque Country in northern Spain. Growing up my family's nickname for me was poky because I like to move through the world in a slow, methodical, and intentional way. I grew up between Yakima and Ephrata, Washington but have called Seattle home for the last decade. Currently I live in the Central District, Coastal Salish and Duwamish land, with my partner Emi. We have a sweet and sensitive kind of love that has healed so much for me. I cherish my chosen family and prioritize the health of my relationships. I have been in therapy consistently for the last 13 years, I am open and transparent about my mental health and invite compassionate questions regarding my personal history.
My life's work has centered around cultivating resilience within survivors of trauma and advocating for a more trauma-informed world. I have engaged in this work through one-on-one sessions, group classes, retreats, trainings, and therapeutic photography. I have also worked with several yoga studios and retreat centers to ensure that their policies and procedures are more trauma-informed. Although I have studied trauma in depth there is always more to learn. I am a forever student, committed to broadening my understanding and somatic knowledge of the ways in which systems of oppression perpetuate harm.