About

Meet Your Healer

The journey, the philosophy, the practice.

Julieanne Combest — Living Temple founder
Julieanne Combest

Julieanne Combest

Studio Owner · Myofascial Release Therapist · Somatic Coach

From a childhood at the foot of the mountains of Colorado to the rolling green of Missouri to the heat of the Sonoran Desert, she made her way to the deciduous rainforest of Virginia and finally back to the mountains again. She has been a server and a nanny, a teacher and a counselor, an apprentice midwife, a doula, an energy worker, and a massage therapist. Immersed in social justice and women, gender, and sexuality studies, writing and poetics, esoterics, and energy and bodywork.

I guide people into knowing themselves as holy, worthy, and whole as we step into divine alignment and right relationship with ourselves, our communities, and the planet. I support queer activists, healers, and visionaries release trauma from their bodies, reclaim their sovereignty, and step into their purpose with embodied power and vision.

I believe in the divine and inseparable nature of the body and spirit — that healing the body is healing the spirit, and healing the spirit heals the body. In my massage work, I approach the body holistically — as a living breathing spirit animating a body.

Our bodies hold grief and trauma, hopes and fears, longing and joy. When we do not allow ourselves to fully feel or process all that we experience, the experience or emotion becomes trapped in the body. We hold grief and trauma in our hips and legs, rage in our bellies, unexpressed joy in our chests, and stress and anxiety in our shoulders. In bodywork sessions my aim is to provide space in the body for my clients to clear any stagnation and let all energy flow easily through them again.

Embodied Liberation Coaching evolved out of both the way that I felt the need to address healing in a more holistic way, and the work that I have done to heal my own trauma and the phenomenal results I have seen in my life as a result.

"I guide people into knowing themselves as holy, worthy, and whole."

LGBTQI2A+ Affirming Massage Therapist Black Lives Matter word cloud Spirituality Without Politics is Escapism. Politics Without Spirituality is Brutality. — Andrew Harvey

Training & Certifications

  • Certificate of Massage Therapy — Lotus School of Integrated Professions
  • Certified Crystal Healer — Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy
  • Reiki Master
  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification — Embody Lab
  • Spiritual Psychology Practitioner Certification (in progress)
  • ICF Coaching Certification (in progress)
  • John Barnes' Myofascial Release (MFR I, Fascial Pelvis, Myofascial Unwinding, Skill Enhancement, MFR II, Women's Health Seminar, Myofascial Rebounding, Cervical Thoracic)
  • Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy
  • Claire Marie Miller Pregnancy, Labor, and Postpartum Massage
  • Transformational Coaching, Spiritual Coach & Law of Attraction Coaching Certifications — Transformation Academy
  • Birthing From Within Doula Training & Hypnobabies Doula Training
  • Full Circle Placenta Encapsulation Training

Your Body Is a Temple.
It's Time to Come Home.

Whether you're seeking relief from chronic pain, healing from trauma, or reconnection with your body's wisdom — this is your invitation.

Begin Your Journey

Reach out to schedule a session or learn more about which healing modality is right for you.