whakapapa

Kia ora, my name is Juliette. Daughter of Annie and Lawrie, youngest (read goofiest) of three, born in Whakatu, Aotearoa with whakapapa trailing footprints back to Scotland, Ireland and England.

We moved around a bit when I was young. I was raised by many lands, the golden sands and emerald estuary of Totaranui, the wrap of the Kahurangi, Urenui - that kohatu in te moana at Tahunanui, tawhiti matea and the steep undulations of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. I was schooled, cleansed and strengthened by Te Awa Tupua, the Whanganui river. And on the red dirt of Te Whenua Moemoea (The land of the dreaming - Australia) from my teenage years into adulthood, I grew alongside serpent spine and brightly coloured wings.

To all the land, water, creature and spirit that has fed and belonged me to itself and this wildly generous world, I sing my praise. To the human families I came into and circle out with, I keep bowing. And to the life that leads out from here — May I stitch forward healing to violence passed through my ancestry into systems of extraction and oppression. May I serve and be in the hands of great change.

vocation

It’s a full life, overflowing with yearning. At this moment in time, over a decade in to honing my skills of contribution to personal, social and ecological wellbeing, I am bolstered by a beautiful reassurance, both personal and reflected in clients and students, that is that the practices work. While I felt the shimmering promise in the early days of practice, that all these moments of clear experiencing might someday add up to something, I did not know then as I know now how simple and effective the practices really were. That they were changing me. That they were all leading to a kind of embodied rest that would allow me to work in a world full of un-rest and dis-ease with great conviction, compassion and commitment to collective wellbeing. I teach now what I know first hand feeds the hungry, heals hurt and releases the over-burdened heart into it’s own holy breaking and remaking.

My study, experience and ongoing inspirations span across many fields all relating to deepening awareness of the animate human body and the return to community and earth connected living. From birth-work and women’s sexual health, to body-work in the form of zenthai shiatsu (thai massage, shiatsu and osteopathic techniques), yoga (Iyengar, hatha, anusara, embodied flow, trauma informed yoga and now the ongoing development of terra soma), somatic movement therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, dance movement therapy, story, poetry, mytho-somatics and ecosomatics. I am endlessly fascinated by this ‘one precious life’ as Mary Oliver had said, and the profoundly sacred sentience thinly veiled within all the everyday ordinary things, like stones, and sunlight on water, like bark and moss and you, breathing.

When I’m not planning or hosting the next adventure into animacy in the yoga room, on the dance floor or at a retreat or training, I’m either in the wild figuring out this hunting thing, Or, continuing with private practice as a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (registered with ISMETA).

The place where it all my mahi comes together and sings is Awakening Arts, School of Yoga and Ecosomatics. This is where my love for growing community gets to bloom with trainings and retreats exploring the confluence of wilderness connection, yoga, and somatic psychology! Check out the school here awakenignarts.co.nz. We are 7 years deep and thriving!

qualifications

• Somatic Movement Therapist, RSME & RSMT with ISMETA

• E-RYT® 500 Registered Yoga Teacher

• YACEP® Continuing Education Provider with Yoga Alliance

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Coach

• Certified Embodied Flow™ Facilitator

• Certificate in Psychosomatic Therapy

• Zenthai Shiatsu Practitioner

• Yoni Mapping Therapist

work with me one : one, online or in person

• Somatic Movement Therapy

• Zenthai shiatsu

• Pelvic health care for sexual wellbeing and pre and post birth preparation/integration

living in mythic times

Are you ready? Are we ready? … Are we equipped enough with the kind of skill and artistry this world might require of us, to live well in these mythic times ?

Can we show up with humility, courage and wisdom for ourselves, for our families, in our local communities and for the social - global events that need our voice ?

How will we make a world together that is safe and inspiring, that generates wellbeing for our grandchildren and this wild wakeful Earth ?

We must be somewhat ready, somewhat equipped, because these are the times we are in. We are here. And - we have some serious growing down and in to do!

It’s going to take a lot of hands on work, and deep rest, play, and community activation to remember ourselves into right relation with each-other and the more than human world.

I guess the good news is, we innately, somatically know how make connection, how to make the world whole. Perhaps we just need to stop long enough to over hear, sense and feel ourselves dreaming.

We won’t generate change through thought and dialogue alone, it is time to live, again, more deeply into our bodies, from there, we can take our next, together steps.