Julie McIntyre is an Earth ceremonialist and metis of Norwegian and Mohawk/Blackfeet decent. She is the director for the Center for Earth Relations and for the past decade has worked with the Sacred Pipe, Medicine Wheel, and Vision Quests in facilitating closer human bonding with the Earth. An ordained practitioner of the Church of Gaia, Julie recently directed a state ceremonial program for Native men in prison and also works with young women with ceremonial rites of transition into womanhood. A double-degree graduate in Political Science and Public Communications Julie has completed postgraduate training in sacred plant medicine, Ayurveda, Reiki, medical herbalism, Huichol shamanism, and wilderness survival.

Julie authored a monthly column for six years for Tapestry Magazine (Lansing, IA) on Earth relationship and ceremony, the sacredness and ecology of the Mississippi River system, raptor ecology, and the healing of human disease through the use of Earth medicine.

A Holistic Health Practitioner in an integrative medical clinic in Wisconsin for four years, she provided herbal and nutritional counseling, colonic hydrotherapy, laser acupuncture detox, lymphatic drainage therapy, and patient education and support.

Devoted to helping people reclaim their ecological identity, Julie mentors adults, young adults and children on the sacredness of Earth relations, the heart as the organ of perception, the ecstatic path, healing shame, medical herbology. She has a private Holistic Health practice working with Herbal medicine and chronic illness, sacred Plant Medicine, spiritual mentoring, ecological reclamation of the soul, becoming authentic, and sexuality.

Comments from former students . . .

My weekend workshop with Julie was an extraordinary growth experience. By her example and clear direction, she showed the way to first free my heart of old pain and then extend my heart to everything around me; plants, humans, animals, the whole universe. She was a perfect guide but refused to allow any dependency.

~ HM, Photographer

When I think of our time with Julie, I am filled with gratitude for the beautiful way she helped us grow in sensitivity to all life. I feel linked to all of creation and the lines of communication are wide open.

~ LM, Ayurvedic Technician

Julie provided a roadmap for me to recognize my true identity – not as a lost soul but as a Co-Creator. She made me conscious of the buried unconscious belief systems which arrested my creativity, spontaneity and authentic nature.

~ Paul Rohowetz

Julie is a gifted, wise teacher who opens doors to another way being, living life with far greater depth and feeling. My compass was indeed rusty, lost in the chatter of everyday life. Julie helped realign my senses to deeply connect with myself and the escatic world which lives and breathes around us.

The Gila wilderness is a sanctuary for this very deep work and I fell in love again every single day, with myself, the wilderness and the invisibles. This experience has touched me in a profound way and continues to have a ripple effect on my life which I am ever so grateful for. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat."

~ Julia, London

"Julie is one of the great intuitive Plant Medicine teachers of our time, and I would do another workshop with her in a second. It's rare to find lessons delivered in the wild, wrapped in both a warm sense of humor and with a fierceness of truth. Julie wants you to get better, to be better, to see clearer and to be heard. Her love is ever present and unbending, and her integration of the plants in the Gila makes this experience that much more powerful. But Julie's greatest gift to me was not her own words, it was helping me see what "was" and always "is" right there in front of me all the time, the universe faintly whispering her healing prose and guidance right to my heart. Julie just gently guided me closer, and I'm infinitely grateful."

~ Josh S., New York, NY

"Julie's work is a balm for the heart and the psyche, taking you as deep as you want to go into it. Vitalistic in approach, and truly unique, the work has helped me to learn how to uncover some of the deepest meanings behind questions such as 'what do I truly want for myself?'"

~ Kevin Folz, Madison, Wisconsin

About Julie McIntyre

Comments from former students . . .