About Me

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For menstruating people. For new mothers. For someone struggling with symptoms like cramping, headaches, infections, painful and miserable menstruation.  

For someone who needs a practice that offers stress relief.

Because it’s important to hold intentional space with our bodies. 

Because you deserve to feel good. 

Because spaces where talking about the difficulties of our bleeding time is few and far between.   

Because there is an intersection between health, happiness, and pleasure. 

I believe in ways we can care for our gynecological health outside of surgery and synthetic hormones. 

I believe in autonomy in women’s reproductive health   

I believe in having access to tools that can significantly improve your health and well being.  

I believe in the importance of connecting to our bodies. 

I believe in the efficacy and medicine of herbs, steam, and our bodies.  

I believe that we shouldn’t suffer with menstruation.  

I believe that periods can be pain free  I believe that routinely steaming can offer so many health benefits  

I LOVE the elemental magic of steaming: earth, fire, air,+ water.  

I LOVE how easy, accessible and beneficial this practice can be.

I LOVE the connection to our ancestors who have practiced steaming.  

I LOVE how steaming makes me feel, and how this practice has relieved my painful and unpleasant menstrual symptoms.

I teach folks how to steam at home. Safely and effectively.   

I talk to you about your menstruation, and with the information we gather, the observations you make, and the patterns we find: formulate a blend of herbs for you to steam with and a steam plan made just for you.    

I'm Julia-thank you so much for being here!! I am a health and pleasure centered steam practitioner, lover of plants and the Earth, a Mother,  homemaker,  birth+postpartum keeper, herbalist, and lifelong learner of things that interest me. I love to cook for my friends and family, listen to audiobooks and podcasts, take Nature walks with my family, and imagine a world that is free from white supremacy and destructive economic systems. 

I love connecting folks with herbs and steam and this is my work in the world. 

Qualifications: 

Peristeam Hydrotherapist-in-Training at the Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute

Certified Vaginal Steam Facilitator-Nov 2019 Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute

Advanced Herbal Apprenticeship-Thyme Herbal School

Ninunong Gamot/Filipino Ancestral Medicine-Angela Angel

Bachelors of Science in Sustainable Food and Farming-Dec 2015 University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

Associates Degree-Farm and Food Systems Greenfield Community College-2014

Permaculture Design Certificate-2013