
Julia Katcher-Persike
Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner | Japanese Reiki Ryoho Practitioner | Yoga Educator in the Classical Tradition | Doctor of Naturopathic Animal Sciences
Julia is not just a coach. She is a catalyst for transformation.
With a Masters in Ayurvedic Medicine and more than twenty years of experience in holistic health, movement, and spiritual study, Julia brings a grounded and powerful blend of science, intuition, and lived wisdom to her work. Her path began in the world of dance at five years old and later led her to earn a BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa. What began as a love for movement grew into a lifelong devotion to understanding the body, healing the mind, and awakening the spirit.
Over the years, Julia has trained in boxing, yoga, bodybuilding, and martial arts while dedicating more than two decades to the study of spirituality, religion, and traditional systems of healing. These practices have shaped a deep and embodied understanding of how physical strength, emotional clarity, and inner alignment work together. She teaches from lived experience and from a life rooted in continuous practice and personal evolution.
She lives by the Ayurvedic principle to keep the healthy healthy and to guide those in dis ease back toward harmony. Her work is personal, intuitive, and grounded in compassion. Whether she is supporting someone individually or leading a group, her intention is to help each person reconnect with their natural capacity for balance and vitality.
Julia opened her first practice in Los Angeles in 2013, expanded her work to Las Vegas, and now lives in Sheldon, Missouri, where she embraces farm life while tending to three dedicated spaces of service.
W’holistic Athletics, a training space for boxing, kickboxing, traditional yoga, and bodybuilding
The Practice: An Ayurvedic and Healing Company offering personalized clinical care and treatments
Her Yoga Studio, rooted in Hatha Yoga, traditional asana movement, breathwork, and inner transformation
She has recently graduated with her Doctorate in Naturopathic Animal Sciences, expanding her mission to include the healing of animals. She believes that wellness belongs to all beings.
At her core, Julia is a practitioner and teacher shaped by the classical traditions of yoga and Ayurveda. Her work rests on discipline, direct experience, and the understanding that true change is cultivated through steady practice, ethical refinement, and the gradual purification of body, breath, and mind. She guides students and clients in the way these traditions intended, through embodied study, personal responsibility, and alignment with the principles that have anchored the yogic and Ayurvedic lineages for centuries. For Julia, health is not a trend or a performance. It is a return to natural order, to balance, and to the clarity that arises when one lives in harmony with timeless teachings.
Holistic Health
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Doctorate of Naturopathic Animal Sciences
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Ayurvedic Practitioner (Southern California University of Health Sciences)
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National Ayurvedic Medical Association Professional Member
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Ayurvedic Obstetric Masters (Arya Ayurveda Panchkarma Clinic and Ayurveda Academia, Pune, India)
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Continues her studies and education under guidance of her teacher and guru at Academy of Traditional Ayurveda
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RYT 500 Yoga, E-RYT 200
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YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider)
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Energy Healing (Usui Shiki Ryoho); Traditional Japanese Lineage
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Western Reiki Master
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Meditation Instruction Certified
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Holistic Health Advisor
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Certified Spiritual Healer
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Kashmir Kaula lineage under the guidance of her guru Sri Subhagananda Nath/ Indra Ram Das Aghori

Athletics
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BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa (Over 30 years of dance training and performance)
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Trained with the ROTC Army for three years
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Personal Trainer with 20 Years of Industry experience (NASM)
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NPC Bodybuilding Competitor and coach (Jay Cutler Classic, Midwest Meltdown)
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RYT 500/E-RYT200 Certified Yoga Teacher (Instruction for Athletes, Yogis, Yoginis, Martial Artists (MMA, Boxing, Muay Thai) and the United States Air Force, Nellis Base)
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Martial Arts Skill, Technique and Instruction with 20 years of Industry experience. Advanced training in Boxing technique under the guidance of Librado Andrade
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Cheerleader and Instruction 5 years experience







