Nicole DeJulia Dranias

Nicole DeJulia-Dranias began her yogic journey through the Temple of Kriya Yoga under the study of well-known and highly-respected yoga teacher and swami, Kim Schwartz. She not only practiced and taught traditional hatha yoga, but broadened her knowledge of yoga and its healing approach through an apprenticeship in yoga therapy with Gabriel Halpern of the Yoga Center in Chicago, Illinois. While working as a physical education teacher, she advanced the public school’s core PE curriculum by adding yoga as an area of study. In 2002, she started her own non-profit yoga studio on Chicago’s near southside. She has had the privilege to study extensively with nationally renowned yoga teacher Rod Stryker and has also attended workshops by Anna Forest, Johnny Kest and Baron Baptiste to name a few. Currently, Nicole lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two young children and teaches both yoga and dance.