Julia has a B.A., B.Ed and a Masters of Environmental Studies. She is a certified Mitzvah Practitioner, Level One Energy healer, Pilates teacher , Ontario Hike Leader with Standard First Aid and Remote First Aid and ecotherapy certification.
Julia works at the intersection of art and healing. She is a climate aware multidisciplinary artist with 40 years of professional artistic practice and 25 years of professional healing practice. She is particularly interested in embodied practices of relational healing with humans and others. Julia is foundationally a dancer, and her current artistic work incorporates, movement, music, sound, text, visual art and design. She is also an outdoor educator, a canoe tripper, an embodiment facilitator, and ( soon but not yet) an Art Therapist.
Julia draws on a variety of tools and techniques in her teaching and healing work gathered from her careers in performance, teaching, environmental studies and embodiment. Julia works with a wide range of people from elite performers to beginners. She founded and works with Wild Soma, a collective for Embodied Research, Double Pendulum, a collective for interdisciplinary performance and the Grove Collective for collaborative artistic research with trees. She has created work with organizations such as Canadian Opera Company, Urbanvessel, Moonhorse Dance Theatre and Dancemakers.
Julia Aplin has created art for theatres, rivers, boxing rings, wading pools, cyberspace, neuroscience labs and forests. She danced full time for 15 seasons with Dancemakers, originating roles and performing around the world. She is an award winning choreographer and has taught movement through University courses, professional academies, private studios and public schools. She continues to explore art and healing through her artistic collaborations, teaching and healing work.