About Hearth Practice
A hearth: the beating heart of a home. Traditionally, the hearth is a central fire where a family gathers for warmth, connection, and nourishment. Nowadays, many of us lack a hearth space in our lives: a safe, reliable place where we feel welcome and that offers us respite from the demands of economic and social systems that do not honor our humanity.
A practice: a ritual we return to again and again with the understanding that it is not meant to be perfect or static. We are always in-process.
Led by Juliana Ivey, Hearth Practice is an ever-evolving container for connecting to our inner light and remembering our inherent belonging—to ourselves and to our communities—through gently guided practices of healing breathwork, mindful movement, and relationship tending. We offer one-on-one sessions and workshops in yoga and mindfulness, as well monthly love letters that center the body as a place of safety, vitality, and belonging.
About Juliana
Juliana Barajas Ivey is a yoga and mindfulness teacher living, playing, and dreaming in Santa Cruz, California.
Her offerings in yoga asana, breathwork, and meditation are shaped by close attention to the needs and wellbeing of the individuals and groups she works with. Her teaching practice draws from over 500 hours of Yoga Alliance–certified training, completed since 2015, primarily with her root teacher Hannah Muse. In recent years, she has focused on restorative yoga as a practice of deep rest for busy and overwhelmed bodies and minds. She is currently midway through a 3 year long educational program to be certified as an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist through IAYT.
Juliana’s teaching is trauma-sensitive, resilience-aware and relational, informed by her community and by trainings with the Prison Yoga Project. Her approach emphasizes care, adaptability, and respect for each person’s lived experience. She is fluent in both Spanish and English and offers bilingual classes on a sliding scale.
Juliana is a daughter of immigrants of mixed white and Indigenous ancestry. She currently lives and works on the traditional lands of the Awaswas peoples, and encourages those who live on these lands to join her in supporting rematriation through donations to the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and the Shuumi Land Tax.