About Julia
Julia was born and brought up in Zimbabwe. From a very young age she was curious about the relationship between subtle energies and the dynamic life forces in nature, with a fascination in the body’s ability to adapt and heal.
As a child, Julia had a strong desire to help and would offer to massage friends and family. She was drawn to alternative remedies, from homeopathy to traditional herbs.
Then, in 2000, at the age of 16, Julia's father suffered a severe head injury in a car accident, and Julia spent every possible minute visiting him in ICU. By holding his head in her hands she believed with every cell in her body that he could recover. He did.
The experience confirmed her belief in the innate power of the body to heal itself.
Personal Enquiry into Healing
Ever since her father’s accident, healing has been there in the background as a passion and interest, while life led her to complete a degree in Fine Art at Edinburgh University and train as a Steiner teacher.
Healing then coming to the fore again through travels to Egypt where she studied Reiki and began a deeper exploration into raw food, and natural heath.
While bringing up her two beautiful boys, Julia explored an array of healing modalities from psychotherapy, traditional Chinese and herbal medicine, acupuncture, hypnosis, T.R.E. and grief rituals. She has sat in ceremony with sacred plant medicine and practices meditation and yoga daily.
Discovering Myo Reformation
On a return trip to Zimbabwe in 2021, Julia was introduced to Jacquie Simpson, the founder of Myo Reformation, and was fortunate to receive some treatments which had a profound and lasting impact. All previous bodywork and healing paths she had experienced seemed to pale in comparison with the depth and intensity of this new technique, which integrates so many aspects into one practice.
On a personal level, Julia found that Myo Reformation enabled her body to release what it had been holding onto, to a point that it could begin another level of healing. Aches, pains and brain fog began to disappear and as the weight of old, unresolved traumas lifted, an inspiration to help and support others through this unique technique appeared with vitality.
Julia stayed on in Zimbabwe to train with Jacquie Simpson in person, and then continued her training with Jonno Goosen in the UK, qualifying as a Myo Reformation practitioner in August 2023. Since then she has been building her practice from her home in the beautiful town of Stroud in the Cotswolds.
Her vision is to share Myo Reformation in broader communities, offering treatments further afield, through retreat spaces and teaching, to ensure this life-altering practice can reach as many people as possible.
Artistic Expression
Having received a Distinction at Edinburgh College of Art for Drawing and Painting, Julia has continued to develop her artistic practice, holding exhibitions internationally.
Julia has always explored with an array of media, ranging from oil on canvas to painting on silk and more recently creating with found objects, in particular creating mobile sculptures using wood and copper.
Inspirations stem from the transcendental qualities of colour and geometry, inspired by a childhood in Africa, travels in Egypt and the Middle East and her ongoing fascination with alternative healing modalities.
Julia paints intuitively, often following a niggling thought of poetic verse, though underlying it all is a quest to reach something of the stillness beneath the waves of energy and emotion that often spark the initial inspiration.
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