GIULIA PLINE
MOBILITY, MOVEMENT, STRENGTH, YOGA
EDUCATOR & SPECIALIST
SMALL GROUP STRENGTH TRAINING
8-week small group strength training series
Coming January 2026
This event sells out fast - make sure to sign up below to be the first to know when registration is live!
Coming January 2026 for 8 weeks
LIVE IN PERSON
@ Practice Human 28 W 27th St Rm 704 Floor 7, New York, NY
This strength series is a collaboration between yoga teacher, strength coach, and student physical therapist Giulia Pline, and physical therapist Caitlin Casella. Designed for yoga teachers and long-time yoga practitioners who are interested in learning the fundamentals of weight training in a small group environment.
​
Limited to only 6 participants. This class will run as an 8 week series.​
​
Our in-person class series at Practice Human typically sell out several weeks in advance. Make sure to sign up below to be the first to get updates when registration is live!
WHO IS THIS CLASS SERIES FOR?​​​
This series welcomes those who are completely new to strength training, and those who already have a foundation in the basics and want more options and understanding of the rationale behind making various choices based on your specific goals.
​
Giulia and Caitlin draw from their personal, professional, and clinical experience working with common hip and shoulder complaints in those who are nearing menopause, in peri-menopause, or post-menopausal, and have engaged in bodyweight modalities like yoga, Pilates, and walking for decades.
​
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
In this 8 week progressive series, you’ll gain understanding of how resistance exercise can be a powerful tool for:
-
Enhancing sensory feedback
-
Improving proprioception and motor control
-
Building confidence and familiarity with forces acting on sensitive body regions to decrease pain
-
Relieving pain and sensitivity in the glutes and lateral hip areas and shoulder rotator cuff related discomfort
-
Gradually increasing load on tissues for building muscle and bone
​
These classes are about more than how to perform exercises or simply getting in your weekly strength session.
​
Beyond form, resistance, sets and reps, Giulia and Caitlin will help you understand how to train yourself for weeks, months, and years to come.
​
You’ll learn…
-
How to achieve similar strength gains across a variety of equipment, so you’ll have more options at the gym and at home.
-
Strategies for monitoring your response to workouts and making sense of new sensations.
-
Tools for managing exercise intensity levels throughout the week and a better understanding of rest and recovery.
-
How to focus your weight training methods on improving specific qualities that balance your time spent enjoying yoga asana and other embodied movement modalities.
MEET YOUR COACHES
After a 14 year career teaching yoga and mentoring yoga teachers, Caitlin transitioned into other systems of holistic movement, somatics, strength and conditioning. Through this evolution, she experienced firsthand how beneficial strength training and cardio conditioning can be—not only on a physical level—but mentally, for emotional stability, pain management, and a confidence boost that extends beyond physical endeavors.
​
Caitlin helps women over 40 prevent and treat osteopenia, osteoporosis, joint pain, and tendon irritation with resistance exercise. Most of her services are geared towards those who’ve been underloaded over a lifetime of bodyweight practices like yoga, dance, Pilates, barre, and walking.
​
At Practice Human we’re thrilled to bring together a diverse group of therapists, teachers, trainers, and coaches to work together and SUPPORT YOU through a continuum of care.
​
Find out more about Caitlin’s work at practicehuman.com, and be sure to follow her on instagram @practicehuman.
Giulia’s path has evolved from a career as a professional dancer to an educator of movement and now a Doctoral student of Physical Therapy. Her experiences and several injuries pushed her to pursue extensive studies in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and biomechanics, and the years she spent healing and recovering from injury have provided her with invaluable tools and a unique skill set that informs how she treats and cares for others on their own physical rehab path.
​
Giulia’s mission is to provide empathetic, intelligent, thoughtful, and thorough movement education and treatment through a science backed, integrative, and multidisciplinary approach. Her offerings are geared toward helping students and clients unravel the web of the body in an anatomically holistic way, creating space for discernment, discovery, learning, and healing.
Find out more about Giulia’s work at giuliapline.com, and be sure to follow her on instagram @giuliapline.