Meet Julie Cielo of www.juliecielo.com

Today we’d like to introduce you to Julie Cielo.

Hi Julie, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
Hi, I am Julie. I came to Los Angeles in 2012 post divorce after 22 yrs with my high school sweetheart. Back in Florida, I had a thriving private healing practice offering bodywork & yoga therapy for nearly two decades after Mortuary college, Massage Therapy school, a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Health Studies specializing in Gut Wellness and extensive training in yoga & yoga therapy with some of the top teachers in the world. I was very involved in the community I built teaching, practicing and speaking about mindfulness & spirituality long before it was a ‘thing’. I led sold out worldwide retreats for 16 yrs before the internet. I was 36 yrs old when I moved to the west side of Los Angeles and had never been single nor lived alone, but was looking for a fresh start. I actually moved here for the farmers markets. Coming from a more traditional yogic background, I found picking up my practice in LA challenging, so I pivoted and founded one of the first adult non-alcoholic drink companies in the US, raised almost $2M, was nationally distributed and helped forge in entirely new category of beverage that is now a $50B global sales category. Needless to say, the past 13 yrs have been growth-filled. In the past year and a half since closing the beverage company after a manufacturing mishap in the middle of a re-brand, I really felt into my ‘Why’ and realized my deeper purpose to is to help women just like me who came from complex trauma to heal the shame from their past that has been limiting their future. Even though I have accomplished a lot before 50, my aim now is to help other women who have been just surviving– people pleasing, thinking their feelings, using substances to numb or feel something and by staying small and quiet to finally find the safety within their bodies to start choosing differently, shine their light, use their voices and take up space once and for all to THRIVE. We do this by building resiliency in our nervous system and by rewiring our subconscious mind with new neuro-pathways that support the life you want to be living. A big part of healing is doing it in an environment that is safe. We must create that within first. I teach this through a blend of custom curated modalities; Transformational Life Coaching, Somatic Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, Somatic Experiencing, Shadow Work, Evolutionary Astrology and other powerful mindfulness, yogic and emotional regulation practices grounded in nature that defy the faded talk therapy & prescription model.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
In 2017, at 42 yrs old, after almost going bankrupt and losing everything because of the beverage start up, I also had to make the very difficult decision to become fully estranged from both my egg & sperm donors. These were humans that blamed me for their neglect and abuse and would never take accountability nor change. I gave more love and support to them than they ever did me. Sacrificing my childhood, I raised my mother’s three children. She still managed to lie and convince them I was in the wrong. This happened in the midst of my becoming a life coach, teaching classes, and re-building the beverage company that I finally launched with Erewhon in 2019, just months before a global pandemic and the dog that moved to CA with me died of a rare blood cancer. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I am very grateful to have a new pup who’s almost 4 yrs old and a lot more stability in my life after unapologetically putting myself first for once. Another really big change that occurred for me was during Covid. I had been doing Vipassana meditation since the late 90’s but could not get into a silent retreat due to not being vaxxed, so I went and attended a Self Inquiry silent meditation retreat in Guatamala that changed my spiritual trajectory completely.

We’ve been impressed with www.juliecielo.com, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I am known for helping people find true healing when talk therapy only got them so far and quitting drinking only helped so much. I offer 1-1 Somatic Therapy sessions in person and online, local weekly classes, an annual group coaching program called The ReWrite for women ready to transform their lives from within in just 12 weeks. I speak, travel, offer retreats, and will soon be a published author. More at www.juliecielo.com

If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
Presence

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.juliecielo.com
• Instagram: https://wwwinstagram.com/juliecieloofficial
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliecieloofficial
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/juliecielo
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/juliecielo

Image Credits
Alan Penney