The Energy of Yoga
‘Experience the grace and bliss of meditative yoga’
Yoga experienced as ‘meditation in motion’
The essence of meditative yoga is connecting with your energy body
The fruit of three decades of practice, devotion and teaching, has become a living methodology that honours both ancient wisdom and the needs of the modern seeker.
Julie Gargano has trained extensively in a variety of styles & disciplines of yoga, meditation, and energy healing techniques, which create a beautiful tapestry of embodied practices for awakening.
Her unique approach, with it’s foundations in Amrit Yoga, is powerful & deeply transformative as it seamlessly integrates both the inner & outer dimension of yoga.
It creates a bridge for form & formlessness, body & consciousness, physical & spiritual, grounded & expansive. The journey is from practice, to Presence, where the physical postures (asana) become an entry point to take you into deeper meditative states, and is experienced as ‘mediation in motion’.
Rooted in intelligent movement and refined energetic awareness, the heart of this meditative yoga practice is the cultivation of the Prana Body(Pranamaya Kosha); the subtle energy field through which greater awareness, healing, and transformation naturally unfold.
In the guided experience, the mind softens & settles into silent stillness, beyond the habitual patterns of the thinking mind rooted in past preprogrammed memories. As awareness becomes more finely attuned, the experience is progressively drawn inwardly to the felt sense of the body through the vehicle of Prana. Here is where you can progressively experience the vast spaciousness of your Being, in which the true origins of yoga which point to unity, are revealed & actualised.
“From practice, to Presence.
Yoga is not something we do, it is a state of consciousness to be remembered, known & embodied”
-Julie Gargano 
The Origins
The origins of meditation in motion is I AM Yoga® and it’s contemporary expression is meditative yoga, Pranaa Yoga, created by Julie Gargano
I AM Yoga® Integrative Amrit Yoga was founded by Julie Gargano’s spiritual teacher & mentor, the world renowned Yogi Amrit Desai. Yogi Amrit Desai is known for formulating a style of yoga that moves beyond purely physical exercise, treating physical postures as an active, mindful doorway to witness consciousness and energetic prana awakening. Gurudev Shri Amritji is an internationally recognised Indian-born yoga guru who was one of the earliest pioneers to introduce the inner, spiritual dimensions of Hatha Yoga to the West in the early 1960s. These profound teachings have been lovingly passed down from Guru to disciple through the Lakulish Lineage, a Tantric Kundalini Yoga shaktipat lineage, with it’s origins in Kashmir Shaivism.
Amrit Yoga is a combination of Hatha Yoga & Raja Yoga as a means to integrate action and non-action. Through deliberate action in time and space one moves into a Presence where all doing disappears; where the doer and the action become one. From this state of unity, which is the state of authentic yoga, life becomes an effortless flow. Amrit Yoga connects you with the ancient roots and fundamental principles that are at the core of all branches of yoga. It is a non-aggressive, non-competitive and non-mental response to the wisdom of our vital life force, Prana.
Pranaa Yoga brings together a rich blend of the Lakulish Lineage and meditation in motion as prescribed in I AM Yoga®, with a deeper exploration of the physical practice (asana) sharing with you Julie Gargano’s background in Iyengar Yoga & classical ballet. It is her contemporary expression of these teachings, shaped through her own practice, intuitive understanding and unique teaching voice. More than a method, it reflects her lifelong exploration of the body, movement, technique, meditation, consciousness, energy, spiritual connection and the alchemy of human transformation. It offers her students and teachers a pathway to embody yoga as a living experience.
Pranaa Yoga can set a solid foundation for a beginner student who wishes to learn the rudiments of yoga asana technique, alignment and builds from the foundation up in exploring a range of postures and themes from standing poses to inversions. It also has the capacity to guide and inspire students to an advanced level of being guided to explore the ancient timeless teaching of yoga where energy & consciousness are studied, experienced and managed as a pathway to self-realisation.
The versatility & adaptablity in its approach is where the physical practice can be modified according to the intention of the practice. For example the practice can be held and supported with yoga props for a more technical, deeper or restorative exploration of yoga postures, or it can flow like a graceful dance synchronising breath, prana and movement. It can cast a lens of the study of technical movement, or it can be deeply energetic where prana and consciousness are amplified and spiritual attunement is refined.
The approach is deeply intuitive and meets the needs of the student in that moment. The essence, regardless of how the physical postures are formed, is to provide an integrative experience of meditative yoga, where the physical body, spiritual connection & refinement of energy is graciously met with consciousness.