“Embrace life’s unfolding with active and joyful readiness.”
Julia Wolf
Julia Wolf
Education
Julia is a graduate from Sophia University’s Transformative Life Coaching Program and has completed the Shamanic Apprenticeship Program with Indigenous Roots. Her background as a Physical Therapist and Complex Lymphedema Therapist led to hours upon hours of continuing education including with the Barral Institute studying the visceral and neural bodies and studying Zero Balancing coursework to expand the ability to feel energy through working with the bone body.
This formal education became enhanced by studying physicists to understand the quantum world, mystics to understand the inner world, and Shaman to understand relationships with reality. She has participated in workshops and certificate programs offered by Sierra McFeeters at Indigenous Roots, Sparrow Hart at Circles of Air and Stone, Sky Otter a deep ecologist, shamanic guide and spiritual coach, as well as Stanislav Grof, Robert Moss, Jeffrey Allen, Sandra Ingerman, and Barbara Brennan further developing her energetic and perceptual skills.
Beautiful teachers passing on their knowledge from their indigenous elders and ancestors came into her life. The world of Qi Gong , Yoga, and Shamanic practices taught by skillful masters allowed her to feel those energies within her body, mind and spirit. Dream interpretation, nature immersion, breathwork, and plant medicine further enhanced her understanding of the complexities of body, mind and spirit. Integrating her formal education with her experiential education is when the magic started for her resulting in the manisfestation of Trillium Healing Arts.
Trillium Healing Arts
Trillium Healing Arts emerged from my personal story. The true colors of my inner being that were subtly shading the weaving of my life’s tapestry began to shine brighter through a dream, so powerful that it continues to walk with me today. These colors rose to the front of the tapestry illuminating my path, the most rewarding journey of my life.
I dreamed of a snowshoe hike I had once taken, alone under Chief Mountain in Montana 15 years earlier. I dreamed of the same wolf that I had encountered that day. However, in this dream the wolf was not alone, but with her pack and I watched them consume me. I awoke with a start; yet easily drifted back to sleep thinking, “That’s not a bad way to go.”
My life was killing my soul. Wolf spirit walked with me, palpably, viscerally for weeks, months. Wolf spirit’s lesson was one of courage, the courage it takes to live one’s soulful life. Courage. I was living a life that I had designed based on what I came to believe was the right way to live a life. I was living a life which met family expectations, marital expectations, societal expectations.
I was living a life incongruent with my true being.
Gandhi said, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” The question arose from within me; is what I think congruent with my true self ? Or, are my thoughts born from other’s beliefs embedded in me from childhood, education, relationships, and society?
My journey started off slowly and not without pain. I began walking into the forest with the intention to seek guidance in navigating parts of my life which were stagnant. As I became more in tune with my energetic self as part of nature, I gained insight from a breeze, a canyon wall, a woodpecker’s drumming. I developed intention, meditation and gratitude practices to heal.
Skillful people entered my life meeting me where I was, and mirroring my life back to me. Wounds, trauma, beliefs that were not serving me, and expectations of others became clear through yoga, dance, meditation, shamanic journeying, and breathwork. I was able to see the child who saw the magic, and understand the rebel within me. I learned about the power of surrender and discovered my dancer.
Along the way I noticed that my work as a PT was transforming as well. I felt the human body differently. Palpation became more energetic, treatments became more holistic; integrating body, mind and spirit.
My formal education as a physical therapist, transformative life coach and shamanism has been excellent soil from which Trillium Healing Arts blossoms. The sun which shines on Trillium Healing Arts comes from my love for the natural world. The rain which waters the practice, comes from my personal healing through study, nature immersion, meditation and intention practices.
I am honored and am grateful to be in service to you.
Julia Wolf
Julia Wolf and Steve Devoney
Julia and Steve teamed up 3 years ago offering residential and workshop opportunities for clients to deeply immerse themselves into inner exploration. Transformative opportunities offer themselves over the course of our lives. Some are so profound that they can’t help but to transform us, others require mindful effort to commit to the healing journey. Julia and Steve’s desire to offer these intensive opportunities comes from their own individual transformative experiences which led them into journeys of self discovery and healing.
Julia started her transformative work a dozen years ago after intellectual analysis, quieting the ego-mind through meditation, and psychotherapy efforts intending to improve the trajectory of her life lost their momentum. Around that time, she began to notice how the Energy Healing Coursework she was taking to integrate into her physical therapy practice was affecting her psychospiritual life. Eyes widened to new ways to heal in body, mind, and spirit, she soon followed an intensive path of energy and shamanic work leading her to the Transformative Life Coaching Program at Sofia University. Her personal transformational story is the fuel for her passion in helping others on their journeys.
Steve began collaborating with Julia on Transformative Retreats and Workshops after spending many years doing his own personal work. In his travels with psychotherapy, he discovered that he could only go so far before he came to the protective traffic cop, AKA, his Ego. Working with different healers, Steve experienced how powerful transformative work was in helping him drop below his conscious mind and address the things conventional talk therapy couldn’t. These experiences led to life changing and transformative results. Steve is currently in a transformative apprenticeship program with Circles of Air and Stone and is looking forward to integrating new skills in his role as a retreat facilitator.
The group setting is perfect medicine for the isolation many feel when facing their shadow side. In this setting, we discover that even though our storylines differ, we are all on, what Joseph Campbell calls, a heroes journey. We become a tribe which is fueled by the belief that we have within us what we need to prosper and grow. We bear witness to each others stories which may in turn illuminate unrecognized facets of our own. Here, in the group setting, we discover how together we become stronger than each of us are individually. Paraphrasing Malcolm X, when “I” becomes “We”, “I”llness becomes “We”llness. The energy of the group strengthens the experience.
Julia and Steve’s role as facilitators is to create a safe community for us to blossom and grow in. The agreements of confidentiality and the intention to speak from and listen through our hearts are the creed of the tribe. Experiences are designed to help their clients dip below the control of their egos to explore their deeper knowing, remember who they are, or to notice their competing commitments. Their final role is to help the participants integrate the information they received from within themselves into their new story to share with the world.