I am so glad you are here.

But at the same time, I’m so sorry you are needing a safe space like this to support you as you navigate the life altering loss you are walking through. No one should go through this alone, and I can say with confidence that you that you are in the right space to find support, ease, and to learn how to integrate your grief and move through the pain.

I receive dozens of messages each week from grievers who are navigating all types of loss, resonating with what I share and how I move through my grieving process. I hear from…

  • Mothers who have lost children.

  • Adults who have lost parents, siblings, or close friends.

  • People who have lost their best friends suddenly.

  • Grievers of all kinds, asking for my support through their

  • unique grieving process.

Because of this, my heart has been calling me to find a way to serve anyone that is grieving and looking for support that enters into my world.

As we all know the truth in that all grief is life changing

All grief has the power to pull our lives apart, and get us stuck in a cycle of “getting by” rather than actually living our lives.

All grief deserves a chance to be witnessed, held and tended to in our OWN ways.

I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to create an accessible offering for all grievers to come and find peace and healing, on their own timeline, through gentle, authentic, heart-led support + suggestion.

This is what led me here, to a place where I am extremely proud to share that my new offering, Embodied Grief, is now available and ready to find its way into your hands.

This self-led grief exploration offering is for anyone who is navigating grief/loss, looking to take gentle steps to come back to yourself, all while giving your grief the space it deserves.

If this is YOU, please keep reading for more details, as it would be such an honor to hold this space for you and get these tools into your hands as you move through your grief journey.

  • Your life has been on autopilot since your loved one died. Almost like your life ended too, and now you’re just existing rather than truly living your life.

  • You are just going through the motions every day to take care of everyone else, and you feel like you don’t have the time, space or capacity to take care of yourself.

  • You have so many overwhelming emotions and thoughts - still - and you’re not sure how to ease their intensity.

  • You feel like you “should” be farther along in your grief than you are- you know that everyone’s timeline is different, but in many ways you are feeling frustrated by how you are feeling and find yourself comparing.

  • And – you might be feeling worried that your grief is TOO powerful… that if you give it the space to be tended to, that you will fall apart even more. (which is okay and welcomed, and I want to honor how scary this can feel)

  • What you truly want is to feel good again - you want to get back to living a life that you can feel present in, all while making space for your grief and the loved one that you lost every step of the way

  • You’re chronically stressed, and feel like you can’t relax or find joy in the day to day

  • You experience frequent pain and tension in your body

  • You feel like you’re watching the world move on around you, while you’re stuck in the same place

  • Anytime you do try to enjoy the present moment, you get hit by a flood of overwhelming feelings

  • You might even be experiencing digestive issues, sleep issues, getting sick easily, or feeling exhausted all the time, yet you can’t relax

While yes, you will grieve the loss of your loved one for the rest of your life – your ache tied to your grief does not have to take over every waking moment of your life.

There is a way to come back to living your life with feeling joy, ease and peace.. all while making the space for your loved one, your grief, and all of your feelings.

More times than not, all that I listed above is directly related to an activated and/or unregulated nervous system, with our emotions (and the trauma) feeling trapped inside of the body.

In our grief illiterate society, we are taught to heal our grief through talking, journaling, or just “moving forward” and trying to get back to a normal life.

Yet what about the rest of your body? What about your feelings? What about YOU?

We live in a society that minimizes the messages our bodies have for us.

Yet we know scientifically now that “our body keeps the score”.

Science, Energy Healing, Yoga, and Breath Work all say the same thing - Our body holds emotions, memories, and trauma, and there is a way to tend to the body to release and process what is ready to release.

Embodied Grief is a gentle opportunity to work with your body, your energy, and emotions, rather than avoiding or resisting what our bodies have to say.

Without tending to the body, grievers can feel “stuck” in an all consuming cycle of survival - avoidance - overwhelm and just doing what they can to get by.

Oftentimes, the embodiment and nervous system work is the missing piece that’s keeping you from moving forward at your own pace. This is exactly why I created Embodied Grief - so that you have what you need to work with your body, your nervous system, and your emotions so that you can get back to living a life where you are one with your grief, but also at peace with the life you are tasked with still living.

  • This is a self-led, pre-recorded course with new content being released weekly for 8 weeks, to allow you time to integrate and fully digest the information.

    You are able to purchase additional one on one coaching calls with me, if you feel as though you need additional support.

  • Embodied Grief will feel supportive and helpful at any stage in grieving. While some of the concepts may bring up resistance, the beauty is you get access to the course for life and can always go back at any time.

  • First off, I want to acknowledge how thoughtful and loving you are that you want to give somebody this, it shows how much you care and how great of a support you must be for them.

    Second, of course you can! Just email me at julia@juliawarrenyoga.com and someone on my team or myself will get you squared away.

  • Nope! It is not just yoga.

    There are 2 trauma informed yoga classes in there - one restorative practice and one beginner vinyasa flow practice.

    There are some additional body work/somatic practices that are all accessible and my hope with them is that you can feel empowered to listen to your body and modify as needed as you move through them.

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The Embodied Grief Offering

I created Embodied Grief to gift grievers with of all kinds with gentle tools, concepts, and skills needed to work with your body in order to learn how to integrate their grief into their life, and move forward in life WITH the person they lost.

This is a self-led journey, where I walk you through a set of tools and steps to come back to yourself, all while giving your grief the space it deserves.

For the griever wanting to make space to process their grief, but also waningt to make space in your life for YOU again. (you don’t have to choose one or the other).

Embodied Grief is about learning how to hold space for yourself - all parts of you - so that you can finally feel at ease + present in life again, all while honoring your loved one.

Meet your Embodied Grief Guide, Julia

Hi you, I’m Julia. I’m a 500-hour trauma informed Yoga Teacher who found the practices of yoga + breath work in a time of healing and transition as I entered into recovery from many addictions back in 2010. That practice led me down a path of deep exploration of Somatic Touch, Energy Work and the Energetics behind the Nervous System, all modalities I still tune into and use daily almost 15 years later.

All of this deep. self-led exploration has helped me navigate all the other big (and small) life transitions I would walk through, like becoming a wife, a mother to two young boys, and more recently as I made the resistance filled transition into widowhood in 2021 after losing my husband, Doug, to an accidental drug overdose.

Doing this hard work allowed me to have a solid foundation to place me feet on, and is what had led me to open and operate my heart led business where I can support widows/grievers during their toughest transitions + re-births as well.

While most of my work has been supporting women who are experiencing Stigmatized Loss (loss from addiction or suicide), I felt called to create an offering that all grievers can access to find peace and come back to themselves, all while honoring their loved one and the grief process.

Embodied Grief is a curated set of concepts, and tools that you can use in your own grief journey to come back to your present moment, and work with your body, emotions, and grief to move forward in your own life.

What surprised me the most about my own Embodied Grief Journey is that my life is staring to feel somewhat like it did before my husband died. Of course, I know life will never be what it was was when Doug Warren walked this earth, but I have been able to find ease, peace, joy and feel to alive again - all while honoring my husband and my loss.

My hope is that this YOU will find the same here…

(even if it doesn’t feel like it...yet).

Your body is so wise, and you are SO strong, my sweet grieving friend.

My role as your facilitator in this self guided journey is to equip you with the tools, concepts, and gentle suggestions so that you can guide yourself through this next chapter of your healing journey.

YOU are the expert in your grief, and I will always remind you of that as you work through this powerful self exploration.

Embodied Grief is an 8 week journey designed to help you gently create a space to come back to yourself, and tend to your grief in a new way.

I have curated this as a self-led journey through resources, activities, and tools to walk you through each step of coming back to your body. Each week builds on the last, teaching you the path back to SELF..

I created this as a self-guided journey so that you can move through the embodied grief process privately in the comfort of your own home, so that you have one less place to go or appointments to make.

In Embodied Grief, I weave together important concepts related to grief, thought provoking prompts, gentle guidance, as well as provide you space to journal and write things down as you move through these 8 modules.

I recommend going through the modules one week at a time to start. I also designed this program so that you can come back to each module and move through each step anytime you need a little extra support in your embodied grief journey.

Each module covers a different aspect of holding space for all that you are navigating in a safe and powerful way.

First, I will guide you in creating a safe internal landscape for yourself where you can seek our surrender, where you feel comfortable enough to turn inward and begin the embodied grief journey.

Next, I guide you through the basics of the nervous system, so that you can understand the trauma responses you might be experiencing more fully, and more importantly - understand how and why the nervous system plays an important role in how you move through your grief.

After you have begun to lay a foundation of safety and understand your nervous system a little more, I will begin to guide you through practices to tune into and explore your body to help you identify where it might be holding unprocessed emotions + sensations..

Once you’ve learned how to tend to your grieving body, I guide you through powerful ways to express yourself by feeling your emotions fluidly. This might feel different, and even a little scary, as we begin to tease back the layers of emotion that you may not have been ready to approach before.

Next, I teach you a number of tools to re-regulate your body and nervous system, so that you can feel more in control of whatever you may find yourself moving through in your grief. You will learn techniques that help you release stored emotions, gently down-regulate your nervous system and allow the body to find ease.

I include Yoga and breathwork practices, meditation, visualization, guided somatic movement, and much more. You will be stocked with a toolkit of body-centered techniques that will help you make space for your grief and for whatever shows up in life next.

Finally, I show you how to bring all of this together using the Embodied Grief Process which works through a framework I call “SELF: Surrender - Emotions - Loss - Future.” This process helps you have a system for growth and healing once you are finished with the program.

Finally, we wrap up with integration work, where I guide you in identifying how to continue using these tools going forward in your life.

This 8 module program is really about learning how to tend to your nervous system, how to create space for all of yourself, and move forward in your life all while making space for your grief.

You already have what you need inside of you to reclaim ease and peace within your grieving body and in your life. My role in Embodied Grief is to guide you back to this remembering...

Can you imagine finally being able to sit with yourself, with your grief when it asks to be witnessed - and having a safe space to just be - rather than just living in a place of resistance?

  • Can you imagine finally having tools that can help you calm your body when you’re overwhelmed?

  • Can you imagine finally having the space in your life to take care of YOU and your own wellness?

  • Can you imagine being able to be in the present moment - and stepping out of the constant survival mode?

  • Can you imagine how relieved you will feel, knowing that you understand how to work with your nervous system - and having a toolkit for helping your body reregulate?

  • Can you imagine feeling more confident heading into the future WITH your person, as you integrate them into all you do and carry forward?

We know that grief is something that lasts forever, as our love didn’t stop when they died… we are allowed to navigate life going forward with the grief integrated into all we do, and with ease in our bodies, hearts and minds.

The concepts, tools, and skills that you learn in Embodied Grief can be used for the rest of your life - you can apply these tools and practices to any challenging situation for the rest of your life - not just your grieving body and heart.

Our society teaches us to live mostly from our heads, not our bodies.

When you are able to truly be IN your body, IN the present moment, you are bringing a new vibrance to your entire life.

So not only are you learning how to process your grief more effectively - you’re learning a set of tools to enrich your entire quality of life.

And even if you only use these skills for the 8 weeks, the Embodied Grief Process has the potential to change the entire trajectory of your future, because it is designed to get you out of the survival/avoid/overwhelm loop and back into your body and your life.

The real question is - if you are living in survival mode with an activated and on edge nervous system, why not join now? The beauty of what I include in this offering is that it is all backed by my own lived experience, science and ancient traditions found through yoga

You can utilize these skills and concepts for a lifetime of embodiment work.

And these concepts and skills go beyond grief support - you can use them for self-regulation and processing your emotions for the rest of your life, as we know big events will still come our way… even in grief.

You will leave Embodied Grief equipped with a skill set that can help you move through whatever challenges life throws your way.

And the best part is that everyone in your life benefits from you choosing to tend to your body and nervous system. When your nervous system is more regulated + your body feels safe enough to express - when you are more present with your grief and allow it to flow and take up space when needed - life begins to feel a little more ease-filled and whole.

Disclaimers

Embodied Grief is NOT a substitution for psychotherapy, I am not NOT a licensed therapist.

I cannot and will not offer medical advice.

To protect the purpose of our group, as well as guarantee the safety of each individual member I encourage everyone to seek out outside support for any issues beyond the objective of this group. This may include issues related to trauma, depression, addiction, suicidal ideation, and any other mental health struggles.

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