Julia A Metzger-Traber

My aim is to accompany you on your healing path with compassion and dignity-- inviting mindfulness, and rooting in a connection with the earth. I am here to support you to get to know yourself and build the capacity be with more of life -- the painful and beautiful experiences-- by re-establishing a sense of safety, dignity and belonging. I believe healing the wounds inside our bodies, hearts and minds, is part of healing the world around us.

I have worked with people all over the world, people yearning for connection and wholeness, people fleeing violence, trying to come back to themselves after traumatic experiences, trying to heal internalized racism, and people yearning to be free from their inner blocks, fears, critics and painful patterns.

In addition to being a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I am also a certified yoga teacher, and hold an MA in Peace and Conflict Transformation. I have also trained with: Generative Somatics, the Moving On Center , and in Eco-somatics with Satu Palonkongas. I am a dancer and community artist by training, and believe in the healing power of each human's creative spirit.

I live on a farm, surrounded by community, where I dance, plant trees, make absurd theater, sing, hold ritual space, and mother three wild humans. I believe all transformation begins with attention and curiosity—and I’m here for the journey.