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Certified Yoga Nidra Teachers
Graduates of the Yoga Nidra Professional Training & Certificate Program – Level I
2017 to 2023
Get info on future Yoga Nidra trainings here.
September 2017 – Yoga Nidra Level I
| Ilona Pisarek is a hatha yoga teacher, RYT 200 trained in the Sivananda style. She also completed 100 hours of training in Yoga of Recovery to help those overcoming addictive and self-destructive behaviors. Her passion for helping others led her to discover Yoga Nidra as a powerful tool for a stress relief and finding peace. She completed the training of Yoga Nidra Level 1. Ilona also holds academic degrees in Nutrition and Food Sciences. She offers private and small groups classes in English and Polish. Ilona lives in Lawrenceville, NJ. Contact her by email |
| Kathryn Weirick – Coming soon. |
| Nancy McMahon BA, MPA loves sharing her love of yoga with others. Nancy earned Yoga Alliance’s RYT 200 certification after completing studies with Denise Moore’s Open Dimension Yoga Teachers Training Program, an Integral Yoga based program. Further studies with Julie Lusk/Wholesome Resources garnered her Yoga Nidra Professional Training certification: Level I. Nancy is also certified by the American Heart Association in Heartsaver CPR/AED. Nancy teaches in the Middleburg, Delaplane and The Plains areas in Virginia. Learn more at yogaworkz.com. Like her Facebook page |
| Natalie Kahn, MA, RYT, loves her life on Hatteras Island, NC, working with others in-person & online, as a guide to empower oneself through the tools of yoga. She combines her training in the Himalayan tradition and yoga nidra with her degrees and experience in education to offer 1-on-1 sessions, personalized sadhana (daily practice), group classes and Unplug & Empower Yoga Retreats. Visit yogardenshine.com for more and follow her at Yogardenshine on Instagram and Facebook. |
| Neli Ramirez is a Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher. She has a BS in Nursing and is a Certified Diabetes Educator. Neli is enrolled in the University of Texas online course, Science & Practice of Yoga and intends to complete the Integral Yoga Teacher Training course to have the tools needed to guide herself and others to a space to help create a healthier world. She is enrolled in the tension/trauma release exercise program (TRE) and a CMT massage therapy program (CMT). She says, “During my Yoga Nidra training, I reached a space of peaceful realization that opened a door for me. Behind that door I could see myself (really SEE myself) and accept all good and petty things that make me human. I could also SEE the people around me in just the same way. I accepted all of it: the good and the bad, the past, present, and future.” Neli lives and works in Charlottesville, VA. Email Neli |
| Polly Behringer a lifelong practitioner of different modalities of healing through yoga. She is a studio owner, The WhereHouse Okc in Oklahoma, a RYT-200 Yoga Teacher certified by Becca Hewes, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, owner of YogaLife. She is certified in Yoga Nidra – Level I by Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT. Polly has studied Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) with the founder & creator of TRE, David Berceli, PhD & Paul Darby, LPC, CACIII and Board of Directors TRE for all of U.S. Future plans include attending the Integral Yoga Teachers Training 200 hour program, a month long immersion / onsite program of Satchidanada Ashram – Yogaville.” |
| Tosh Patterson is known as the simplicity expert who helps busy professional women break up with burnout and overwhelm. Her expertise has been featured on the Dr Oz Show, U.S. News & World Report and various media outlets. Tosh has earned certifications in Yoga Nidra, Bikram Yoga, Meditation and uses these modalities to teach women how to simplify life. Women rave about Tosh’s annual event, RECHARGE Retreat. Visit toshpatterson.com to learn more about retreats, classes, and programs. |
| Viviana Collazo – coming soon |
November 2018 – Yoga Nidra Level I
| Cynthia (Cinmayi) Moore fell in love with the yoga nidra part of Integral Yoga so chose that path for teacher training. Meditation, and cultivating peace are lifelong pursuits. Cynthia is a healthcare provider (registered dietitian, diabetes educator and integrative coach) and believes in the power of Yoga Nidra to heal. Contact her by email. |
| Elizabeth Norqual M.A., R.N., N.E.T.A.-C.G.E.I., Certified Yoga Nidra instructor and Holistic Practitioner. With more than 35 years experience as a Registered Nurse and Psychotherapist, Elizabeth (Betty) is passionate about preventing stress related illness by teaching clients how to live a healthy mind, body, spirit life style including yoga practice and yoga nidra (yogic sleep, deep relaxation). She is the founder of Beautiful as You Are, B.A.Y.A., she leads a weekly support group based on the six principles of Simple Abundance. As an educator, she present workshops on stress management and other Holistic topics for personal and professional growth. She is available to teach Yoga Nidra, Stress Relief, and Deep Relaxation privately 1:1 or in a group setting. To arrange a session or to inquire on workshop topics contact her here. |
| Anna Vasudevan |
| Cathrine Nelson |
| Christina Maniccia |
| DeAnn Stanley |
| Florence Ambika Cristelli |
| Gigi Jones |
| Irma Rosario |
| Jori Andler |
| LeeAnne Gfroerer |
| Lisa Caunitis |
| Marilyn Perry |
| Mary Jane Palmigiano |
| Pauline Gianoplus |
| Raama Das |
| Rachel Martinez |
| Ricardo Chiaradia |
| Sheila Lapeyrouse |
| Sherry Hanover |
| Victoria Jaya Eubanks |
| Get info on future Yoga Nidra trainings here. |
| September 2019 – Yoga Nidra Level I |
| Barbara Germershausen |
| Brian Fouche teaches Yoga Nidra and Meditation classes. He has completed 100 hours of teacher training in advanced Yoga sequencing and Yin Yoga through Bhakti Yoga DC. Brian seeks to guide his students by serving as a voice which they can make their own and incorporate into their everyday life as they come back into contact with their true inner self. Brian lives in Washington, D.C. Contact him by email. |
| Chuck Rounds |
| Colleen Dwyer |
| Diana Kelly |
| Ivanna Kokriatskaia |
| Joe Duquette |
| Linda Murray |
| Lori Burckart |
| LuAnn Oliver |
| Nelda Eserin |
| Patty Strawderman |
| Irmina Ulysse |
| Get info on future Yoga Nidra trainings here. |
February 2022 – Yoga Nidra Level I
| Angelica Lakshmi Gutierrez | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Annalisa Derryberry is a licensed massage therapist (FL MA43061), certified hand & foot reflexologist, and certified yoga teacher. For more than 17 years, she has assisted people in experiencing deep relaxation, pain relief, and an improved sense of well-being. She also offers weekly Yoga Nidra sessions online as another way to help people to be kind to their bodies and minds. Learn more at DerryberryMassage.com or email her here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia F. LaCroix, Level I Yoga Nidra Certified Teacher, Empowerment Coach, combines Yoga Nidra, integrative healing skills, and coaching to offer her clients and students avenues through which they can come into awareness of their Wholeness, become empowered, and move forward to experience practical, full, productive, creative and joy-filled lives. Georgia teaches and facilitates Reiki, Yoga Nidra, and workshops designed to help individuals break through their blocks and move forward! A Board Certified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Hypnotherapist, and practitioner in several other modalities, Georgia has 25 years of extensive study and experience in the fields of bodywork, energy healing and coaching. GeorgiaLaCroix.com // Contact her by email here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Gina Alderman | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jeffrey Dharma Hollar | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Joan Pleasants | |||||||||||||||||||||
| JoAnn Bonifacio | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Julie M. Haines | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lisa Ann Sheehy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Margaret Ralph | |||||||||||||||||||||
| June Zimmerman | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nana Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nikki Wesen has combined her love of yoga, sound meditation, and Reiki to help with the healing of herself and others. She believes we are all capable of healing ourselves, and sometimes we need the help of others to do it. Through her dedication to herself and to those she is fortunate enough to help, she would like to serve as a steppingstone to cross the bridge into a healing mindset. Nikki is RYT-200 Yoga Instructor certified from Honor Yoga, NJ. She is an Atma Buti certified sound healing practitioner under Suren Shrethra as well as being certified in yin yoga with Corina Benner. She is certified in Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Meditation, IY Stress Management TT, and Yoga Nidra Level 1 with Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT. Most of all, she believes that these healing modalities, should be accessible to everyone. KumamaEnergyHealing.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Pamela Adami | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rasamayi Victori, RCRT, RRPr, CAP is a lifelong student, practitioner and educator of the healing arts. She has always felt a deep connection with all living things. A near death experience at a young age gave her a deeper understanding of this connection. Her passion for natural healing and helping others led her on a wonderful journey of learning and sharing that continues today. Rasamayi has been teaching Yoga, Meditation and Deep Relaxation for over 25 years in the US and Canada. She is a Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher, Board Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Certified Reflexologist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Yoga Stress Management Teacher, Certified Yoga Teacher, iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation Teacher Level 1. Learn more at victorinaturalhealth.com. Contact her by email here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sanjana Patel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sylvia Villarreal | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tami Musumeci-Szabo | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tinuola Bello | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Vimukti Aslan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Vyasa Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||
| January 2023 – Yoga Nidra Level I
Get info on future Yoga Nidra trainings here.
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Details Wholesome Energizers CD
Are you in search of stress relief?
Wholesome Energizers CD is your solution.
Written and narrated by Julie Lusk.
Original instrumental music by Tom Laskey.
Wholesome Energizers combines relaxation, guided imagery, breathing exercises and affirmations by Julie Lusk M.Ed. with the soothing and relaxing instrumental music of Tom Laskey for stress relief.
The recording on this CD take you through a comforting relaxation process to leave you feeling rested, rejuvenated, and ready for the rest of the day.
Listen to this recording often for stress relief, to refresh your outlook, and feel calm and balanced.
Wholesome Energizers © 2003
Track Sequence and Sampler
- Introduction mp3 ( 2:34 min)
Tips from Julie about how to get the most out of listening to Wholesome Energizers. May skip after first play. - Squeeze Stress Away ( 13:20 min) Guided relaxation exercise to stimulate your energy.
- Woodland Walk mp3 ( 16:04 min)
Guided imagery is used to renew your vitality. It features an enjoyable walk in the woods - Your Garden ( 16:20 min)
Guided imagery and affirmations are used in a garden scene for cultivating qualities to reclaim health and inner strength.
- Listen often to release stress, refresh your outlook and feel calm. Feel rested, rejuvenated and ready for the rest of the day. Introduction and 3 tracks featuring a relaxation exercise, beautiful guided imagery and helpful affirmations to bring your energy back. CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...
Collect Details
Education, Training & Publications
Julie Lusk
What a pleasure to specialize in balancing and strengthening the body-mind-spirit connection through yoga, meditation, positive relaxation, and guided imagery. I feel so fortunate to have discovered yoga and meditation as a young woman in the 1970’s and to continue to study and practice till now. What a joy it has been to teach all these years and to be the author of the many books and recordings listed below on yoga nidra, meditation, guided imagery and similar practices.
My professional counseling training, certification, and work has been invaluable, providing me with an enriching perspective on mind-body interventions. Professionally, I have been a regional director for a large hospital-based holistic health and wellness program, director of health management and wellness at a well-known medical clinic, an assistant dean of students for career planning and placement at a college, director of special services at a community college, and an educational awareness counselor. Thousands have been touched through my volunteer work.
Most of all, I love sharing all this with others. This has given me a practical sensibility of what works and what doesn’t as well as all the benefits that happen. It’s a real joy for me to teach others as a teacher and trainer.
Graciously,
Julie Lusk, M.Ed., E-RYT-500
PUBLISHED BOOKS
- Yoga Nidra Meditations: 24 Scripts for True Relaxation, Llewellyn, Woodbury, MN. 2021
- Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief, New Harbinger, Oakland, CA, 2015
- Yoga Meditations: Timeless Mind-Body Practices for Awakening, Whole Person Associates, Duluth, MN. 2005

- Desktop Yoga, Penguin Group/Perigee Books, New York, NY. 1998. Translated into Spanish, Dutch and German
- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, Vol. 2, Whole Person Associates, Duluth, MN—First edition 1993, second edition 2015
- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, Vol. 1, Whole Person Associates, Duluth, MN—First edition 1992, second edition 2015. Translated into Spanish and Italian
AUDIO RECORDINGS
- Guided Mindfulness Meditations: Practicing Presence & Finding Peace (Health Journeys, Cleveland, OH)
- Yoga Nidra: Guided Meditations for Relaxation & Renewal (Health Journeys, Cleveland, OH)
- Yoga Nidra: Inner Strength and Balance (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Yoga Nidra: Unshakeable Peace and Joy (Kunaki Publishers / WR)

- Yoga Nidra: High-Level Living (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Real Relaxation: Yoga Nidra (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Refreshing Journeys (Whole Person Associates, Duluth, MN)
- Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Power of Presence (Kunaki Publishers / WR) Wholesome Relaxation (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Wholesome Energizers (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- Blue Moon Rising (Kunaki Publishers / WR)
- And many other
EDUCATION
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
- Master of Arts in Education – Counseling and Family Development
- Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
- Bachelor of Arts in Education. Cum Laude. Course work in rehabilitation counseling and education
YOGA ALLIANCE

- Registered Yoga Teacher E-500 since 2001
- Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider or YACEP
YOGA CERTIFICATIONS
- White Lotus Foundation – Certified Yoga Teacher, 1994
White Lotus Foundation – Advanced Teacher Training, 1996- Yoga of the Heart Certification – Nischala Devi at Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville, VA 1998
- Atma Yoga – Certified Yoga Teacher & Yoga Teacher Trainer, 2001
- iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Richard Miller, Level 1, 2011
- Master classes with Lilias Folan, Christopher Baxter, Nischala Joy Devi, Sarah Powers, Michael Reed-Gach, Sam Dworkis, Richard Miller, Donna Farhi, Sally Kempton, Belleruth Naparstek, Joe Panoor and many others
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
- Intensive Training Institute: Alternative Approaches to Mind/Body Medicine with Christine Page, MD, and C. Normal Shealy, PhD, NICABM. 1996
- Institute Certificate: Clinical Training Hypnosis Course with Helen Erickson, RN, PhD, and Sandra Sylvester, PhD, NICAB
M. 1995; Bill O’Hanlon, - Reiki II Therapist. 1998, 2001, 2005.
- Healing Touch I: 2000
- SoulCollage ® Facilitator: 2015
COUNSELING CREDENTIALS & CERTIFICATIONS
- National Board for Certified Counselors – National Certified Counselor, 1985 – present

- Commonwealth of Virginia – Licensed Professional Counselor, 1981 – 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Yoga ~ Meditation ~ Guided Imagery ~ Yoga Nidra
- National and International
- Satchidananda Ashram / Integral Yoga / Yogaville, VA (7 years)

- Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Conference (5 years)
- Kripalu Center Program (14 years);
- Sivanada Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas (10 years)
- Discovery Yoga (4 years)
- Yoga Educator at the National Wellness Conference for 15 years
- Yoga Educator at the Health Immunity & Disease NICABM Conference (7 years)
- Satchidananda Ashram / Integral Yoga / Yogaville, VA (7 years)
- Regional Yoga Educator (teaching classes consecutively since 1977)
- Yoga Slumber Party & Women’s Retreat, Milford, OH: 2001 – present
- Honey Sweetie Acres Goat Yoga, Goshen, OH: 2017 – present
- Jesuit Spiritual Center, Milford, OH: 2004 – present
- Anderson Senior Center & Heritage Church, OH: 2005 to present
- Miami Township OH; 2000 – present
- Cincinnati Yoga School, HealthPlex at Anderson, Fairfield: 2000-2005
- YMCA, Salem, VA: 1996 – 1999

- Lewis-Gale Medical Foundation, Salem, VA: 1989 – 1996
- Roanoke College, Salem, VA: 1982 – 1989
- Roanoke Memorial Hospital; 1983 – 1984
- Roanoke Athletic Club: 1980 – 1982
- Virginia Western Community College: 1978 – 1980
- YWCA: 1977 – 1978
PROGRAM DEVELOPER
- Desktop Yoga ®. Modified over 100 yoga postures and created sequences to be practiced by “office workers, internet addicts, and stressed out students.” Author of Desktop Yoga (Penguin/Putnam Group). Blessed with numerous media, medical and work-site demonstrations as well as publications and interviews.
- DARE to Relax. Developed a stress management-training program that has been used in business, collegiate, medical and community settings. DARE stands for Diet; Attitude and Awareness; Rest and Relaxation; and Exercise.
- SPICES for Life Initiated, developed, promoted and implemented wellness programs for collegiate, corporate and community groups. SPICES stands for Social, Physical, Intellectual, Career, Emotional and Spiritual wellness. Programs included health fairs, wellness assessments and various activities.

- Wellaware Designed, implemented, promoted and evaluated employee wellness program for Lewis-Gale Clinic. Components included ongoing incentive program to encourage and reinforce wellness behaviors. On-going events were planned and implemented.
- Alive and Well Coalition Chaired the 1000 member volunteer coalition which developed, promoted and implemented the country’s first community based wellness week (1986). Quit and Win, a community-based smoking cessation contest (38% quit rate); Project Lean, a community-wide project to promote good nutrition and exercise. Certificates of Recognition from the Governor of Virginia, the US Secretary of Health, the Virginia Commissioner of Health, the Mayor of Roanoke, and Wellness Councils of America.
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