Julia Romano, MA, MA, MS, is a Certified Yoga Therapist in private practice, focusing on the challenges and lessons that arise from life's many transitions. She leads workshops guiding newly postpartum women through each layer of self so that they may find healing. She infuses her offering of yoga therapy with teachings and tools gleaned from her training in International Conflict Management and Clinical Psychology. As supervisor to yoga therapists and co-creator of a 200-hour yoga teacher training based in Washington, DC, Romano finds joy in helping new yoga teachers and yoga therapists alike discern their path. Author and poet, Romano is the creator of the Substack Site Mark Upon the Infinite: Parenting While Walking a Spiritual Path as well as The Yoga Therapy Lens. Romano is also a committed back-to-the-land and keep-it-simple advocate, having transplanted with her husband and four children to the rolling hills of West Virginia where they are putting down roots and seeing what blossoms.
Romano eloquently and effortlessly provides a comprehensive and compassionate guide for health practitioners, translating the complexity of evidence-informed biopsychosocial-spiritual postpartum care into clear, simple and accessible yoga principles and practices. Yoga Therapy for the Whole Mother is an essential resource for yoga therapists and will also be of tremendous value for health practitioners interested in expanding care beyond the biomedical model. -- Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT, co-editor/author of Yoga and Science in Pain Care Wisdom, heart, and expertise await readers within the pages of Yoga Therapy for the Whole Mother. I appreciate Romano's honest storytelling woven throughout which provides reader's a welcome companion, representing the fundamental value of connection and quality support necessary for new parents. Mothers at any stage past birth will benefit from the self awareness and accessible practices offered. Yoga and birth professionals, as well as healthcare providers, will gain important insights to elevate current policy and postpartum care to the comprehensive, heart-centered work of tending robust mothers and families. I highly recommend this book! -- Cheri Dostal Ryba, Pelvic Yoga Therapy for the Whole Woman: A Professional Guide