Julie Emden, Founder of
Embodied Jewish Learning
& Embodied Jewish Wisdom Network

Julie Emden (she/her), E-RYT-500, Halprin Practitioner, infuses her work with exploration, spirit and joy. She is passionate about awakening the body as a gateway to deep inner knowing and guides others in somatic explorations of Jewish wisdom teachings as a resource for living in balance and wholeness. A graduate of five fellowship and teaching certification programs related to her work as a Jewish educator, Iyengar-based yoga instructor and movement/expressive artist, Julie has over two decades of experience guiding others in exploring Jewish wisdom, text and practices via the body in a variety of settings.  Julie offers classes, workshops, on-line learning, retreats, teacher trainings, individual coaching, and strategic consultation and guidance for Jewish Wellness Initiatives throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Julie co-created and co-founded with Rabbi Lavey Derby Shalem: A Jewish Wellness Initiative founded at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center. She served on faculty with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Educating for a Jewish Spiritual Life, a national pilot project to bring mindfulness and embodied practices to Jewish day schools and camps across the nation. She leads seasonal workshops and Sacred Dance Circles in Berkeley, California. She joins Diane Bloomfield for week-long Torah Yoga retreats at Hazon's Isabella Freedman Retreat Center most summers, and is available to travel to you! 

Julie holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and brings to EJL her prior experience as a community organizer and political activist with the PIRGs, and her expertise as an Innovation Consultant, Staffing Consultant & Management Recruiter at Kaiser Permanente.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Julie lives in Berkeley, California.

Contact: julie (at) embodiedjewishlearning.org