Julia Wyncoll Wellness - movement and mindfulness

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Julia Wyncoll Wellness - movement and mindfulness

Teaching movement and mindfulness is my passion. Health requires lots of movement, our busy lives require mindful attention to maintain health.

Hand in hand we can move through midlife with vitality, joy and strength. Julia teaches live classes through and does group coaching through her The Reset to Well Method 12-week transformation program. She is a certified Health Coach. She's mom to three incredible teens and a dog and married to her high-school sweetheart. Julis works with midlife women to maximize joy and vitality, and to combat the stress of the midlife crunch. Regaining strength in the muscles and bones, and ease in the joints is a priority for now and as we age. Movement can be used as a way to re-connect to your self, and increase your mindfulness in every day living. Watch your stress lower as you start to come back to a strong and healthy body one step at a time.

01/16/2026

As important as your foot connection, your hands also change shape as we weight bear and push off - akin to the foot’s pronation and supination.

This is a little series I use when I am helping a person feel their arms and hands relate, and connect to the torso. Push and pull are formative movements and shape our torso.

Slide 1: breathe and find your posterior expansion in your ribs cage, with externally rotation in the arms and wrists - Killer hard and will tell you immediately which side you favour (probably your right)

Slide 2: isolate rotation of your humerus.

Slide 3: weight bear fully on one hand and find the back of your arm capsule. Use rotation to slide right back, then move the other way initiating a push from the hand.

Slide 4: stack your ribs, then rotate out in the arm bone and hand - weight on the outer band) as you do the down part of a push up, then find the inner hand and move from there to push back out and up. You’ll send a direct message to your chest muscles and get into an even better rib cage position as you do.

Slide 5: me, circa 2016, dancing with my hands 👋

Our bodies are amazing connected things. Spirals, bone rhythms. Feel yours and move better as a whole. How does this feel for you?

01/13/2026

I used to go to Downward Dog back in the day when it was the place to study- yoga felt a bit like church to me without the ….church.

It’s been many years since I studied or practiced regularly. This week I went back on a whim to see how it feels. I left reflecting on how much heavy lifting the teacher had to do…

Cueing
Caretaking
Giving permission
Creating a mental and emotional throughline

I wondered if that same teacher would sound different somewhere else?

What is your comfort zone with being yourself leading a class… or do you feel you need to take on a different identity based on where you are and the people in front of you?

How do you hone what is yours, so you walk away feeling like taught in your own voice?

I think it’s part of longevity in this industry. Be who you are. Speak from that place. Make your own impact.

First Monday in February a group of teachers gathers to look at case studies and also cultivate your own voice as a movement professional. We’d love you to join.

How did you find your teaching voice? What’s the process like for you? Comment away- I’d love to hear from you and if you want to hear more about my teachers group give me a 👋 in the comments and I’ll circle circle back to you.

01/06/2026

Impromptu group forming- so far we have a pilates, yoga, neurofunctional movement, chiropractor and physio pros joining.

Borne out of some heart to heart conversations with people I’ve worked/taught/coached this year.

Let’s chat if you want in. Low commitment, big value.

12/31/2025

This is me saying hello after almost 2 months off IG except on stories. After 4.5 years of school getting my Psychotherapy degree and writing my CRPO exam in October (passed!), I had a non-dramatic, but palpable burnout.

I am feeling like myself again, after a reset. I read tons of fiction (see my stories for some of my fav’s), watched movies, walked, went to the gym, and moved at my own pace. 6 weeks of that and I started to feel reconnected and ready again to engage.

2025 was beautiful, but even beautiful can be too much of a good thing. I’ll be a bit more choosy in 2026. Things that brought me purpose, meaning and joy are staying in the mix:

🌳nature time always
🧑‍🧒‍🧒 I gave workshops, and taught a lot of teachers both privately and as groups. In 2026 I have a group of teachers I’m mentoring online, making it accessible for them and time effective for me. Passing on what I know feels in alignment with this stage of my life. Join me?
👍I helped a lot of people move better, many of whom were in pain and now are back to sport and life stronger and more able. I used to be unclear about this cause I’m not a physio or therapist, but now I just own the fact that I work on the grey area between rehab and performance most of the time. I watch the whole body and I’m able to coach better movement really well. 33 years in this biz has left me well positioned to help.
🍾watching some of my clients have big years, gives me joy and appreciation. The hard work is real folks, those at the top work their asses off.
💓I spent more time with my Mom and my kids and spouse than other years, carving it out intentionally. I’m savouring it like a fine wine. I’m so proud of my kids. They bring me to tears often with how deeply they are investing in what’s important to them, and struggling to be their best.
🌮 I worked hard to eat like a human who works out a lot and walks 10K most days. Being a dancer has meant food is tricky for me, I under fueled for decades. This year, I worked hard to care more about what I can do than what I look like. I hit many PB’s in the gym.

Love, joy, purpose and passion. Let’s check in more often…..

11/01/2025

When you have a teacher like Dianne it’s a lot to live up to. She hardly ever said “good job” and sometimes was harsh. From another era where hard work was a given, she wanted critical thinking, expected a keen eye, and demanded practice.

I studied with Dianne because of her lineage to the work, but mainly because she never stopped learning herself. She connected me with Eric Franklin, and was open and discerning at the same time.

When I first started working with Dianne, I would have to sneak out to breastfeed one of my kids in the middle of workshops. I assisted her at DanceMakers while pregnant, when she used to teach for the company. I flew to Vancouver many many times to learn from her. She would pull me aside at lunch and tell me about some new idea she had to work with scoliosis, or some client. She called me a couple times to make sure I was handling life as a studio owner. She continued to mentor, and teach long past when she gave up working.

Many days when I’m teaching I’ll think “What would Dianne do?” The answer is always pretty clear. She relentlessly worked on behalf of her clients. Their health was more important to her than it was to them, until she convinced them to get on board with really caring. And caring about your body meant paying attention, attending to, and practicing daily.

The way I understand Pilates is due to Dianne’s work. Her laugh and her presence will be missed by all the many people whose lives she touched. ❤️

09/24/2025

What I would do if I had a sore back: PART 2

After moving through the PART 1 rep (see last post) I’d want to get moving and loading asap.

🌶️ I’d like to remind my back that it has parts- and especially that my thoracic spine can behave like one while my low back maintains its own shape. Pair that with breath, and a hinge standing or on all fours. Bonus- this activates the glutes/hamstrings and soleus and those all ultimately support my back.

🌊 Get strong enough to hold my front together while loading it with my legs and arms and head. Strong abs - yes- but more importantly strong Psoas. Like super strong. “Hollow body” shows up in pilates a lot, and also in a good pull up. And I rarely see it done well.

🐈‍⬛ Build your back. Erectors, lats, and learn to co-tension your TLfascia through glutes and hips. Swimming in Pilates is a great way to find this.

Lastly, and as always, healthy backs need whole person care.

How’s your back? And how are you?

❤️

09/18/2025

PART ONE:

Cranky low backs happen for lots of reasons. Regardless, athletes and active humans benefit greatly from making sure that the pre-requisites for a relaxed/responsive low back are at the ready.

☝️Legs up the wall (or knees bent have a chair) allows the weight of the legs to fall into the back and gives it enough load to get heavy on the floor. Breathe, take time, get quiet here.

🎾Rolling through flexion and extension: hips elevated, reminds the back to move through both ranges with the support and gentle push and pull of the feet. (This often needs guidance from a good coach ‘cause ppl like to brace and bear down which will shorten the low back instead of doing it with length.)

😮‍💨Open up the back ribs. Flared or shorter posterior ribs already compresses the low back, so learn to breathe in the back, stack your ribs, and open up your upper back. That will take the load off the LB

🎢 Roll through your spine: there are many ways to do this, the standing variation is just one. Being upright has the bonus of relating your body to gravity, to the floor and your feet, and allowing you to feel support from the floor. You don’t have to hold yourself up from your back.

Of course, everyone’s back is different and there are suggestions for a healthier back that is just habitually tight from sport and activity.

I go coach people online and in person. Feel good, feel better. 💪

02/25/2025

Stuff running through my head as I think about the pelvis (as only we body people do;)).

Anything I left out?

Pelvis workshop open to all advanced students, movement practitioners, body therapists.

The last one is really important. Do it a lot of times. Your body will get it, but you gotta put in the work. And convince your students to do the same.

How many hinges have I don’t this year alone? So.Many.

How many hinges have I coached. Same. Hips on repeat.

Sunday, March 2 10 am (online and in person) DM to join. And seriously… anything else I should “note”?

(On another note, they hauled away 4 trucks full of snow from my street today.. I can begin to walk without feeling like I’m gonna face plant into a mountain of snow.)

02/21/2025

The days can be long, but the years fly.

They say you don’t give a s**t about stuff you don’t want to as you get older, and that’s only partly true. You care a lot MORE about the stuff that is essential to you. Everything starts to come into sharper focus. It’s brighter. Sadder. Sweeter. More.

My life is full of stuff I care deeply about. Family. Friends. Friends like family. My clients. The nature of my work. The hard work of living in a body that needs caretaking. Reading. Learning. Be enlivened.

Everyday is the good ol’ day(s). Happy to have another birthday doing what I love, and living and struggling on this planet alongside the best people I am lucky enough to interact with.

02/15/2025

Before I introvert my way under a blanket to watch the hockey game (Go team Canada!)….

This is the power of rest.

I got to lead the group of Franklin Method students/coaches/colleagues in a Constructive Rest session. I leaned this method of deep, meditative imagery support for the body while in Arizona studying with Pamela Matt. This current FM version has threads in the past and in the present. Thanks for passing this on- such a gift.

What it is… imagery to support bringing the Nervous System into balance while lying down - aiding in the down regulation of any excess muscle tone or tension we are carrying around that isn’t serving us (think tight shoulders and neck breathing) and imagery to support the body with functional tone.

It’s especially good for athletes and performers who work their bodies really hard and need to optimize without doing “more”.

My fav comment was “the whole world needs this”. Calm body- calm mind.

P.S. for those on the session - this is the snow I was talking about! Thank the internet gods I made it through the day with power!

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