The how, and the heart
Bodyweight, leverage and flow — and loving-kindness (metta). His Chiang Mai school opened each week with Buddhist chanting and one rule: take care of yourself first. “He’s permanently in my heart.”
About Yulia
She went to Thailand for the magic — and to Seattle for the mechanism.
Most practitioners are stuck on one bank of the river. Yulia carries both: the felt sense of deep, energetic work, and the anatomy that explains every bit of it.
The story
It started as a vacation. It became a method.
Yulia went to Thailand, fell for Thai bodywork, and trained in Chiang Mai — including with Pichet, the teacher every serious Thai practitioner knows. To practise legally in the States she needed a massage license, so in 2011 she enrolled at Brian’s school in Seattle for myofascial anatomy.
She went in for the paperwork and came out changed. The magic of Thai massage was suddenly explained to her in anatomical terms — “the magic became mechanism.” With Brian she built what became her signature: the stretch and flow of Thai work brought onto the treatment table, so therapists deliver it without crawling the floor — and without wrecking their own bodies. Fourteen years on, she’s still in love with it.
The teachers who shaped her
Three masters — and one thread running through all of them.
The what
Myofascial structure: fascial lines, layers, the love of anatomy. Where “anatomy is freedom” was born — understand the structure and you create instead of copy.
The regulation
Craniosacral and biodynamics — the nervous and endocrine systems, skull and bone. Yulia was first her interpreter in Russia, then her student.
The thread underneath the technique was always the same: person first, deep listening. A person on the table — not a body.
Why she teaches
“It’s hard for me to shut up about this work.”
Her drive is simple: to share it, and to ignite in other therapists a passion for anatomy and a way of working that doesn’t break them. Massage doesn’t have to be boring or hard, she says — it should be exciting. Work from structure instead of force, and the work stays creative, the body lasts, and the energy in the room goes up for everyone.
14 years · NCBTMB approved provider #811343 · Pichet lineage · Seattle myofascial · craniosacral · US license · teaches internationally
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