Julia Beasley

Julia is Founder and Director of Wilderness Awakening. She is an educator and lover of all things natural and wild, children and women included! She is the descendant of a long lineage of teachers and artists. From Minneapolis, she had summers to run barefoot and live in her swim suit at her grandparent’s cabin in NW Wisconsin. As a teen with her primary school teacher mother and sister, they ran a summer camp, Wild Girls in the Woods for 5 years.

After many adventures, including motorcycling 3,000 miles to Alaska, crossing the Atlantic Ocean twice in small sailboats, and building and living in a Mongolian yurt on an organic farm in rural France for a year, she came back to her roots to share her teachings. For five years she co-directed a Keiki* Camp at Spirit Weaver’s Gathering, an international women gathering to share skills, knowledge and mentorship in the Pacific Northwest.

Julia was a founding guide and taught many years at Heartwood Montessori, a small community based school in NE Minneapolis, before stepped away from the classroom and into the heart of the woods! She offers a unique presence to women, families and children stemming from her background of many years of education, camp organizing and personal adventures trusting the wild. Outside of teaching, Julia has certifications within Reiki, Tantra Yoga, Forest Bathing and is a birth doula!

*Hawaiian term for children