Thousands of Years of Prayers

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Dunlop, Julie

Julie Dunlop is a poet, an author, and a teacher of yoga, ¿yurveda, and writing. Her book Ocean of Yoga: Meditations on Yoga and ¿yurveda for Balance, Awareness, and Wellbeing, was published by Singing Dragon in London in 2017 and offers a mixture of prose and poetry. Her second book, Honoring the Light in You (Finishing Line Press, 2022) is a collection of poems sharing stories of yoga in daily life. Dunlop's previous chapbook publications include Breath, Bone, Earth, Sky (2014) and Bending Back the Night (2012). Her poetry has been published in many national journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Threepenny Review, Poet Lore, North Carolina Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Atlanta Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Appalachian Heritage. Additionally, her prose has appeared in the Ayurveda Journal of Health, Radiologic Technology, JAMA, Appalachian Heritage, and Wake Forest Magazine. Dunlop has taught daily yoga classes in the weeklong wellbeing program (Pañcakarma) at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico for five years, and she enjoys sharing pathways to wellbeing with the community through classes and workshops; she is certified through Yoga Alliance as a yoga teacher (RYT 500 + E-RYT 200) and through the National Ayurvedic Medical Association as an Ayurvedic Practitioner (CAP). In 2019, she traveled to India to experience the birthplace of yoga and ¿yurveda and to deepen her studies of ¿yurveda at Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda (VIOA). She also holds a BA in English from Wake Forest University and an MA in English from the University of New Mexico. With gratitude, she integrates the ancient wisdom of yoga and ¿yurveda into her writing, supporting the harmony of body, mind, and spirit at the heart of wellbeing.