I'm Julia, and I hold space for women who are ready to come home to themselves. The Rising Collective is where we do that together - through breathwork, sisterhood, and the kind of inner work that actually changes you from the inside out.
Before.
I was working in consulting and tech, climbing the ladder and collecting titles. I wasn't driven by money, but I did find pride in the achievement. I was searching for purpose, and being good at work gave me a false sense of it. I thought “this is where I can shine”.
But the more I earned and despite the impressive titles, I realized I felt empty on the inside. It all felt meaningless. I was feeding my ego and my performance-based self-esteem, not my soul.
And it wasn't just work. I wanted to perform in every area of my life - my health, my appearance, my relationships. I wanted to be the perfect girlfriend, friend, daughter, sister.
I was living my life based on what I believed was expected of me, guided by external validation, societal norms, and what everyone around me was doing. I was never living life on my own terms. I couldn't hear my inner voice. I didn't even know what my inner knowing sounded like.
My schedule was packed. I tried to please everyone, and that resulted in a hectic life where I was trying to be everywhere at the same time. I felt like I was constantly on autopilot, owned by my schedule and my to-do lists. I was always doing because some part of me thought that the more I did, the better it would be. It was the opposite.
After years of constant doing, my body started to shut down. I felt disconnected from myself, and eventually, I got sick. Burnout, and then depression.
The shift.
I realized I had to make a big change if I was going to stop surviving my life and start actually living it. I didn't want to feel numb, disconnected, lost, hopeless, and exhausted anymore.
That's when breathwork found me.
It cracked something open in me. I felt held, I felt safe. I released emotions I didn't even know I was carrying. And for the first time in a long time, I started to feel like me again.
Breathwork became sacred to me because it's the one practice where I can show up exactly as I am. I don't need to perform or be in a certain way. The practice will always give me exactly what I need in the moment I show up.
For me, breathwork is a way to meet my feelings and emotions in a safe and grounded way. I've never really enjoyed still and silent meditation. For me, breathing through my emotions and my racing mind has been far more supportive.
It's a place of truth where I can't lie to myself. Everything I've pushed down comes up for healing. It's also during breathwork that I've had my biggest breakthroughs. It gives me clarity on the answers I seek - from within.
This practice has become a sacred part of my life. It helps me release old stories, rewire limiting beliefs, ground my nervous system, and come back to my intuition - again and again. It's a ritual I return to whenever I need to reset, and it works every single time.
The why.
And for all of those reasons, I felt called to share this practice with other women.
People, and especially women, tend to be stuck in a lot of doing mode. We're holding everyone else, leading, performing, managing. Inviting women to breathe feels sacred to me. It's a space where they can just be and be held, instead of holding everyone else.
I know what it's like to feel disconnected. And I know what it's like to come home. The Rising Collective is where we do that together.
My training.
I'm a certified life coach by the True Vibration Academy, certified yoga teacher (200H), and trauma-informed breathwork facilitator, recognized by the International Breathwork Foundation.
But more than my certifications, I'm a woman who's walked this path and knows what it's like it is to finally drop out of your head and into your body.
