Justine Kerri Fanarof, JD, MPH, E-RYT 500
Justine K. Fanarof, JD, MPH, E-RYT 500 has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2004.
Justine has extensive experience teaching a range of students and excels at creating a warm and welcoming yoga practice and learning environment where each student is met with care, respect, and attention.
Justine’s classes are recognized and appreciated for their strong, grounding, and playful style. She balances intensity with ease and approaches the physical form with an eye towards care, functional movement, and energetic nourishment.
Justine practices and teaches using ancient and contemporary philosophical texts, mantra, chanting and kirtan in the bhakti/devotional traditions, humor (a joke a day keeps the prana at play), meditation and sacred pause, music (sweet music), and purposeful presence.
Corporate Wellness
Justine Fanarof is a skilled content creator and facilitator. Her clients range from grassroots non-profits to global law firms. You can learn more about her services and program philosophy here.
Justine’s Yoga Nidra Meditation
Justine Fanarof has been teaching and practicing Yoga Nidra Meditation for two decades and has developed her own approach to this ancient practice utilizing an understanding of somatics, energetics, and neuroscience.
Ethics & Social Action
Justine Fanarof is a sought after Ethics and Social Action teacher for Yoga Teacher Training programs. Her ethics and social action work is grounded in an applied somatic understanding of the body, civil rights legal practice, matrilineal anti-apartheid and women’s rights lineage, and a decade of Jungian shadow work. Justine serves as Board President of Houston Coalition Against Hate.
Private Yoga & Meditation Sessions
Justine Fanarof offers select clients ongoing private yoga sessions. These sessions are regularly scheduled opportunities to work deeper together in a personal format via Zoom. She also creates special programming for new clients. Please contact her directly for more information.
Somatic Coaching
Justine Fanarof supports her adult and teen clients with mindful, somatic coaching. Drawing on her experiences as a creative, burned out legal counsel, family caregiver, social justice advocate, and long-term yoga and meditation practitioner/teacher, Justine supports those who are asking deeper questions about their work, relationships, and life’s purpose. Working with Justine is a process of unfolding, deep listening, supportive care, and purposeful practice. Somatic Coaching works with a range of body-based modalities to delve deeper than the surface of the mind and into present somatic experience. Justine’s coaching clients range from highly successful professionals who are experiencing spiritual awakening and various forms of “mid-life crisis” to teens wanting to learn more about their breath, body, and mind.
The first half of our life is biographical. The second half, if we awaken to it and do the hard work of being and becoming, is autobiographical.
-Justine K. Fanarof, JD, MPH, E-500 RYT
To find more about Somatic Coaching with Justine Fanarof please contact her directly.
More About Justine
A lifelong student of movement and spirituality, Justine’s formal yoga studies began with Heather Onori at the Forrest Yoga Circle on 16th and Montana St. in Santa Monica, CA in 2001. In 2004 Justine completed both a yearlong teacher-training course with Robert Boustany in Houston, TX and Forrest Yoga Teacher Training in Berkeley, CA.
Justine has additional and ongoing training with beloved teachers including Angela Farmer (subtle body), Ana Forrest (going deep), Kamini Desai (yoga nidra meditation), Stephanie Snyder (vinyasa flow & bhakti), Maricarmen Wilson (shakti vinyasa flow), Michael Stone Z”L (wisdom practices, yoga philosopy, ethics), Ian Boccio (mantra practice), Dr. Rick Hanson (neurodharma, mindfulness, psychology), Tracee Stanley (yoga nidra meditation), Dr. Richard Miller (iRest, trauma-informed yoga), Elizabeth Haberer (trauma-informed yoga), and Krishna Das (mantra practice, bhakti).
Justine is on the faculty of The Jung Center, Houston and co-teaches Jewish Mindfulness retreats with Rabbi Ariel Sholklapper. When not teaching yoga, she can be found practicing mindful law, mediating, coaching, and consulting, hiking and playing with Lulu-Jai, a ten year magical chaweenie rescue dog, and Poppy-Jai, a 2.5 year old Bend Farm Dog, ocean swimming, camping, resting, and being of service to her family, friends, and community.
Justine, a dedicated civil rights attorney and advocate, is the Board President of Houston Coalition Against Hate.
Inhale, peace in, Exhale, peace out
We were, we are, we will be. Gratitude to all the teachers. May all beings be free from suffering.
Namaste!
JUSTINE YOGA 