Jiya Julia Marie

Jiya Julia Marie is a wellness practitioner, teacher & creative with over 15 years experience facilitating self-development, internationally and online. Founder of Kula Collective Yoga School, Kula Maya Boutique Hotel & Spa and Inner Wild Adornments, as well as online writing courses and nature-based retreats and trainings in yoga, singing, writing, facilitation skills and self-empowerment.

Julia is known for her compassionate and insightful guidance, as well as her creative expression as a musician and writer and her emphasis on the power of re-wilding. She is an ERYT-500 level yoga teacher with over fifteen years experience teaching students and educating teachers. She specialises in philosophy, ceremonial space-holding, energetic healing, vocal empowerment and creative therapy. With a top degree in Physics from renowned Imperial College, London, Julia weaves scientific understanding into all of her teachings, giving depth and credibility and linking both ancient philosophy with modern scientific examples. Her teachings bring practitioners into a deep, sensual presence and an invitation to explore life from intuitive experience and inspiration.

Julia offers one-on-one mentorships that weave together coactive life coaching with mindfulness and yogic practice, writing therapy and ritual. As a coach, Jiya offers compassion, acceptance and an infectious encouragement. She has supported clients through a range of experience, including personal empowerment break-throughs, depression and anxiety recovery, new business evolution, international relocation, and development of your unique creative expression. She is particularly fulfilled by her work with women, with a focus on self love, authentic expression and connection to nature. Her personal experience of physical and emotional transformation supports individual through self-confidence issues, depression, grief/personal loss, and creative blockages. Approachable and eloquent, Jiya offers open-hearted and meaningful interactions, effortlessly distilling and communicating complex ideas.

Julia has been living and working across Latin America and Asia since 2009, and is currently focused on her online teaching, as well as her writing; she is working on an historical novel, a poetry book and a self-growth book based on her body of women’s work, Sovereign.

Julia is a talented musician and artist with a penchant for songwriting and poetry, with music released on all major platforms. Jiya’s free-flowing source of creativity and vibrant energy are an inspiration. Julia’s life and work is a consistent invitation to return to the old ways, to explore spirituality from a grounded standpoint, rooted in nature and the principal that Earth is a living organism from which we are all birthed. With a strong personal practice rooted in nature immersion, Bhakti song, yoga and intuitive creativity, she is a walking, dancing invitation to explore beyond the boundaries we create for ourselves.