JULIE MACADAM: SOMATIC THERAPIST, DREAMWORKER, TRAUMA SPECIALIST AND GROUP FACILITATOR
Moving from disconnection into connection takes patience, perseverance and a hearty dose of compassion.
I help people and communities come back into connection, supporting our innate capacity to heal in a way that nourishes authenticity and belonging.
I work somatically and soulfully in the healing journey, tending to what is conscious and unconscious.
I believe change is nourished when we collaborate with forces larger than ourselves. That is why I work with the body, the nervous system, dreams and creative ritual.
To me, the path of healing is about including, widening, and deepening our relationship with what lives within us and around us.
I love the work I do, and it would be my honor to support you.
Leading Ethics
- Perspective shifting from either/or to both/and thinking, expanding your capacity to embrace more of your life.
- Befriending the body, sensations, and feelings, so you trust in feeling and moving through what arises.
- Engaging life’s challenges in creative and embodied ways, helping you trust your inner resources and experience change.
- Working in real time, so we don’t only talk about experiences but practice doing different now.
- Taking a process-oriented approach, because how you get from here to there matters.
- Honoring complexity and paradox, cultivating resilience in the midst of the grit and mess.
- Attending to more than the thinking mind alone, and drawing on other ways of knowing and being with yourself.
- Working slowly and attentively, allowing subtle changes to be felt and integrated.
- Embracing the power of a transdisciplinary approach where more than one therapeutic modality is used, because we too contain multitudes.
- You, over time, seeing and feeling the changes you desire, so that you feel empowered to continue.
Training & Education
MA in Embodiment Studies
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator (RSMT/E)
- 200hr YTT 2010
- Abhyanga Massage Course 2011
- Ayurvedic Studies 2011
- Yoga 1, 2 & 3 course 2018
- Pranayam Studies 2018
- 3-month Yoga Development Course (YDC) 2019
- Hidden Language Hatha Yoga Certification 2021
- Hatha Yoga Certification 2019
- Kundalini & Dreams Certification 2021
- Thai Yoga Bodywork Level 1 & 2 2012
- Hot Stones Massage 2012
Ayurvedic Institute
- Ayurvedic Studies with Dr. Vasant Lad 2010-2011
- SEP, Professional Training Program 2020-2024
- One-to-One and Group Supervision – ongoing
- Assistant for SE Cohorts – Ongoing
- RSMT/E, Two-year Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program 2020-2023
- Masters in Embodiment Studies 2020-2023
- Three-month Herbal Apprenticeship 2013
- One-year Herbal Apprenticeship 2014
- Nine-month Herbal Apprenticeship 2014
Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism
- Three-year Clinical Training Program 2015-2018
Yasodhara Ashram
- Dream Certification Program 2021
Vermont
- One-to-One Personal Sessions and Supervision on-going
Conscious influences:
- My dreams, my students’ dreams, the unflinching love and support that comes from dreams.
- The people I work and my on-going journey; all that continues to teach me about perseverance, vulnerability, grit, transformation, and the power of the arts.
- Somatic Experiencing and its’ tools, techniques, and principles.
- The Tamalpa Life/Art Process and teachings of Anna and Daria Halprin.
- Arnold Mindell, the dreaming body and a process-oriented framework.
- The yogic lineage of Gurudev Sivananda and the teachings of Swami Radha, founder of Yasodhara Ashram.
- Dr. Gabor Mate and his teachings on authenticity and belonging and the myth of normal.
- Susan Raffo and the lens of healing justice.
- Bayo Akomolafe and his work and inquiry.
- The teachings of Sharon Salzberg, Pema Chodron, and the practices that keep us soft, open-hearted, strong, and discerning.
- Dance as movement through various teachers and forms.
- Dr. Stan Tatkin and his teachings on attachment theory, neuroscience, and arousal regulation.
- Plants, the natural living world, and my teachers of herbal medicine.
- Intuition and trusting it.
