Pichet
Bodyweight, leverage, flow — and loving-kindness. His Chiang Mai school opened each week with chanting and one rule: take care of yourself first.
ThailandThailand · the magic
She went for the magic.
A vacation became a calling. Chiang Mai, the Pichet lineage, loving-kindness — Thai bodywork she could feel but couldn’t yet explain.
Seattle · the mechanism
She stayed for the anatomy.
Brian’s school, 2011. The magic was suddenly explained in anatomical terms — and never stopped being beautiful. “The magic became mechanism.”
Fourteen years on, she still works on the table she built — and she’s still in love with it.
The story
It started as a vacation. It became a method.
Yulia trained in Chiang Mai, then went to Seattle for a massage license so she could practise Thai work legally — and discovered myofascial anatomy. With Brian she built her signature: the stretch and flow of Thai bodywork brought onto the treatment table, so therapists deliver it without crawling the floor, and without wrecking their own bodies.
The teachers who shaped her
Three masters — one thread.
Brian
Myofascial structure and the love of anatomy. Where “anatomy is freedom” was born — understand the structure and you create instead of copy.
SeattleRosemary Wallace
Craniosacral and biodynamics — nervous and endocrine systems, skull and bone. Yulia was first her interpreter, then her student.
OsteopathicThe thread underneath the technique was always the same: person first, deep listening.
14 years · NCBTMB approved provider #811343 · Pichet lineage, Thailand · myofascial, Seattle · craniosacral with Rosemary Wallace · US license · teaches internationally
Why she teaches
“It’s hard for me to shut up about this work.”
To share it — and to ignite in other therapists a passion for anatomy and a way of working that doesn’t break them. Massage shouldn’t be boring or hard; it should be exciting. The Rylkova Method opens in 2027.