Meet the Owner and Master Trainer 

Julia has been an athlete her entire life. She started in the field of dance at the age of five and began her professional career by the age of 14. Her high school dance career included dancing for a company in Bettendorf, Iowa as well as a tap company in Chicago called Knock on Wood Tap Company, and Excel a hip-hop and modern company based out of Chicago. She expanded upon the knowledge of dance by pursuing her BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa. While at Iowa she danced for Dancers in Company (a traveling company for the University of Iowa, which performed all over the mid-west), Duarte Dance Works, and Jennifer Kayle and Company. Her college dance career was very fruitful. Her high school career included her knowledge of cheerleading from being a Varsity cheerleader all four years as well as being invited to cheer for the Iowa Shrine Bowl in 2002 which was a very enriching and enlightening experience. After college she moved to the South Bay in California where she pursued dance. She was excepted into a company out of San Diego called Axxiom Dance Collective in which she was able to dance all over California as well as at venues such as Carnival; the choreographers ball in downtown Hollywood. After many years with the company she also started to choreograph for the company as well. She was with Axxiom Dance Collective from 2008-2016. While in California Julia became a personal trainer and trained as the head trainer at Gorgeous Women's Fitness, learned how to sell training and big corporate gyms by working at LA Fitness, and then landed a job at Atomic Boxing Torrance where she was their manager for 9 years.  Julia learned the art of boxing, kickboxing, and muay thai. She absolutely loves to teach these artforms.  She was also an extra on the Jillian Michaels fitness reality show Sweat Inc. as well as modeling Naughty Girl Bikinis as a fitness model at an event in Hollywood. Close to the end of her time in California she also tried out for the LFL and tried to give football a go. She almost made the cut but an alumni beat her out right at the final day of camp. 

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After meeting her husband, Julia moved to Las Vegas where she opened her Ayurvedic Practice and Gym for personal training. It is in Las Vegas where she furthered her career in both bodybuilding, martial arts, and yoga. During her four years in Vegas she acquired her RYT 500 hour yoga certification. She was a coach and yoga instructor at Uprising MMA and also coached at UFC Gym Green Valley.  She also taught yoga to the PJs at Nellis Airforce Base. She competed in her first bodybuilding competition (Jay Cutler Classic) and placed rather well. When Covid hit she ran online classes and started her training with Librado Andrade for professional boxing technique privately out of her home. Librado eventually took her to Mexico to get in the ring in 2021 to truly understand what it is like to be in a ring fighting. Her heart sits with boxing. She is a leo and has a heart of a lion. A truly exhilarating time of her life.

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She now resides in Sheldon, MO where she took on another bodybuilding competition, Midwest NPC Classic in which she took an overall. She is now running 'W'holeistic Athletics because she truly wants to give back her knowledge to the masses. Julia has now earned her YACEP in which she can give continuing education credits to other yoga teachers as well as open her own school of knowledge. She is now also an E-RYT 200 which just signifies experience. She truly enjoys training people in boxing, kickboxing, yoga, and bodybuilding. 

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She genuinely wants to teach the mind and body connection.

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