Meet Julie Marques

Julie is a creative artist, movement educator and mother who teaches and facilitates awareness through movement, developed through 30 years of training and teaching.

Julie grew up in a Caribbean American household, with her extended family at the center of all activities. With a strong, faith based family surrounding her, Julie developed a sensitivity toward spiritual life and learned to grow genuine, personal connections through movement awareness practices and meditation training.

She travelled throughout the world in her early twenties and obtained her BA in Nepal, with her studies focused on dance and healing. She spent her early twenties living in Indigenous farming communities later to join communities and develop healing centers in California.

She created Healing Traditions blending her Ayurvedic studies with movement programs. Move 2 Change is a culmination of her studies and teaching dance, Pilates, Yoga and Somatic practices which shaped her life and created the foundation to her approach toward a movement based lifestyle. Julie sees herself as a facilitator of experiences through self awareness movement practices that lead to increased connection, ease and self love.

LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT

Move 2 Change (m2C) serves the growing need for mental, physical and social well-being through addressing our need to connect inward and with others through movement. Julie designs unique movement -based processes to teach Yoga, Pilates, dance and Somatics to both heal individuals and ignite social change. She offers multi modal classes, trainings and social platforms, with specialized classes for youth, dancers/athletes.

When in studio or online, Julie engages in a collective movement experience that strengthens community ties and furthers social health and well-being.