Julia Kalish
Julia Kalish began taking yoga classes in 1998 to lessen the stress from her career in management consulting. Although she did not originally intend to become a yoga instructor, the more she practiced yoga, the better she felt. A hobby quickly became a passion; Julia read voraciously about yoga and signed up for a teacher-training course. Julia teaches yoga in Herndon, Va., through her company Double Dog Yoga, and independently contracts to teach a yoga-teacher training course at the Flow Yoga studio in Leesburg, Va.