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bio

Kia ora, my name is Juliette.

I am a CISgender, ‘hetero-passing’, queer woman of settler descent, with whakapapa trailing footprints back to Scotland, Ireland and England. I’m tangata tiriti (people of the treaty) here in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Raised by many hands and many lands. I am indebted/I belong myself to the golden sand of Totaranui, the vast embrace of the Kahurangi, Tawhiti Matea and the steep curves of Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). To Te Awa Tupua (The Whanganui River) and to the gum leaves and soft pouch of Australia. I am of these places and their creature life, as much as I am of my people and their story.

My work is an offering to the wellbeing of land and community.

I aim to champion ‘authenticity as wellbeing’ through neurodiversity-affirming practice as well as queer and gender affirming practice.

I strive to be an active partner Te Tiriti through continual learning and integration of Te Āo Māori where needed or preferred by my clients.

qualifications

• Wilderness Rites Of Passage Guide under the tutorage of The School of Lost Borders

• Somatic Movement Therapist, RSME & RSMT with ISMETA

• Senior Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider (de-registered for industry change)

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Coach

• Certified Embodied Flow™ Facilitator

• Certificate in Psychosomatic Therapy

• Zenthai Shiatsu Practitioner

• Yoni Mapping Therapist

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 the ongoing development of terra soma), Somatic Movement Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Story, Poetry, Mytho-somatics, Ecosomatics and most recently The Four Shields framework for Wilderness-Based Initiation and Vision Quest.

I am endlessly fascinated by this ‘one precious life’ as Mary Oliver had said, and am convinced it is worth finding our way to inhabit our days with presence and eyes that see the profoundly sacred sentience thinly veiled within all the everyday ordinary things; like stones, and sunlight on water, like bark and moss and you, before you do anything at all, just simply breathing.

*If you haven’t checked it out yet — the hub where my various passions and qualifications weave together with a collective of inspired teachers and students is Awakening Arts, School of Yoga and Ecosomatics.

This is where my love for growing community gets to bloom with trainings and retreats online and in person — exploring the confluence of wilderness connection, yoga, and somatic psychology. Check out the school here awakenignarts.co.nz.  We are 8 years deep and thriving!