Abundance is a mindset I strive to practice. ✨

Wanting more for others puts me into a state of abundance, and it's only natural that this applies to healing as well. I've been fortunate to train with some of the best teachers and healers to learn how to channel my own energy, heal trauma & release heavy emotions, and live a fully aligned life. 

What does that mean? For me, alignment means being able to spend my time in a way that makes me happiest & proudest of myself. Not waking up in the middle of the night panicked because I forgot to send a work email, being able to go visit family on a random Tuesday afternoon, the flexibility to take a vacation on my own schedule (and to be able to shut my phone off without fear of missing something “critical” at work!) It means providing value to others- not just working to make a living, but working to create connection and to help others find the same in their own lives.

I'm passionate about using the most basic and valuable tools- our bodies and our breath- as guides for working through problems. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing, but so are some of the practices that have helped guide our ancestors before us. I love using traditional wisdom as a supplement to help fill the gaps found in so much of Western thinking & practice today.

It's my mission to help you release all the things holding you back mentally, emotionally, and physically, and to help you start living the life you were destined for. Because what else are we here for?

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Way back in 2003 I started practicing yoga, after being diagnosed with scoliosis. I hated the brace I was given to wear and wanted to do anything possible not to have to wear it- or worse, to have corrective spinal surgery. It was at my mom’s suggestion that I tried out yoga (with a book and dvd! there were no classes in my town then)- that was the beginning of my fascination.

Over the years yoga became something to turn to in times of stress & anxiety, and a practice for centering myself. I went to school for engineering and entered the high-stress world of construction. I loved the constant chaos of it, but as time went on I found myself growing more and more overwhelmed with the long hours and unhealthy lifestyle. There was never any interest in taking yoga teacher training until a friend mentioned she had done it just for her own benefit- as a sort of retreat. That idea stuck with me until I decided to take the plunge- and signed up for my 200 hour YTT in 2018. 

​I went into the training burnt out from construction and experiencing issues in my personal life, holding onto all sorts of pain- both emotional and physical. In one of the sessions we learned about how trauma & emotional pain can be stored in the body, and something clicked. I asked my instructor about this after the class, and she offered to guide me through what would be my first breathwork experience. The transformation I felt was so incredibly powerful- I was immediately hooked!​

 

Since then I've continued to use yoga and breathwork as tools for my own healing journey, while continuing to work in construction. After struggling through another bought of burnout which left me feeling like a shell of myself, I knew it was time to make a more permanent change. I started implementing all of the amazing tools & learning to help myself out of that dark space- and into the life I has always dreamt of.

Now, I’m so grateful to be working to help others find that spark, that alignment in their lives once again. I do this through breathwork, somatic movement, energy work, coaching, and meditation practices.

Julia walking down a set of stairs, smiling at the camera

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Background & Training

400 Hour Breathwork Facilitator Training, Breathing Space

16 Hour Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training, Exhale to Inhale

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Ashtak Yoga School

Other:

How to Teach Breathwork for Children, Breathing Space

Pranayama & Meditation self-practice, Gaurav Malik

Being Blissful Meditation self-practice, Kate Malik

Mindfulness Meditation study, Cambridge Center for Mindfulness & Compassion

BS Civil Engineering, Northeastern University

MS Construction Management, Wentworth Institute of Technology