Wellness Instructor To Expand Minds And Business With Yoga Studio, Cannabis Coaching
FREDERICTON – For people like Juliane Nowe, conventional health treatments just don’t work. Nowe struggled with her health from an early age, but now runs a business hosting events and workshops teaching about natural remedies and how participants can connect back to themselves. She also has plans for a permanent hot yoga studio.
“Pretty much since I was born I was always sick,” said Nowe in a recent interview. “My parents were awesome, they would take me to all the doctors, all the specialists, reading articles, trying different things, and nothing seemed to fully work. One thing would kind of go away but then something would come back or get worse, and we could never get to the root cause of it.”
Things took a further turn when Nowe was in high school learned she had cysts in her vocal cords. Surgery was recommended, which she did not want to pursue because of the potential of something going wrong. Also, there was no guarantee the cysts would not come back.
“It was so frustrating. Here is something that has happened to me that is really keeping me from communicating and enjoying my life, and I’m still not getting answers that I’m looking for. So then I started looking into other ways of healing,” said Nowe.
Through vocal exercises and learning about spirituality, Nowe learned about wellness methods such as yoga and reiki, and how emotions can get trapped in one’s body. Her vocal cords have healed over time. “I was thinking,‘okay there is something to this because I feel better.’ ”
“I was so nervous, but then once I would try something, I started feeling safe in that environment. What started to allow me to find peace and relaxation and health in a different way was learning to trust myself, my emotions, my feelings, my thoughts again, and finding the right space to relax.”
When she moved to Fredericton in 2014, she wanted to begin teaching wellness and being an instructor, inspired by her positive experienced with natural healing methods.
“I wanted other people to have a similar experience to what I had,” said Nowe.
Nowe has studied and practiced a number of natural healing disciplines. She is a certified yoga and reiki teacher, having completed her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) in Halifax, and also teaches sound healing. She is also a certified health and life coach, a spiritual advisor, and a cannabis coach; Nowe received her cannabis coaching credentials from the Natural Wellness Academy.
A cannabis coach helps users have the most optimal experience possible. Nowe’s coaching focuses on helping new medical cannabis who have no idea what to expect, guiding them to discover what works best for them, instead of jumping into the unknown.
“There are over 100 and some licensed producers, and people don’t know who to choose and then they look at the menu with all these different streams and they don’t know which one to pick.”
Fredericton has a sizable natural and holistic practitioner community, where Nowe has established herself at 184 Woodstock Road.
The space is owned by Nowe’s life partner and Canadian Armed Forces veteran Fabian Henry and is also the headquarters for his non-profit business, the Global Alliance Foundation Fund (GAFF), dedicated to helping veterans recover from trauma-induced injuries such as PTSD.
“I found the community was very supportive and also supportive in the sense of trying different things,” said Nowe.
Nowe is currently in the process of applying for grants and funding to open her studio, and in the meantime aims to hold three events a month, ranging from yoga to sound healing with the goal of doing weekly classes.
“We’re not trying to make you a different person or to make you live differently, it’is about empowering you to just be you fully, however that looks, especially for people with trauma,” said Nowe.
“We do have a lot of veterans and their spouses and partners as well coming there so they are also welcome to come anytime and try classes. We really do try to make it welcoming and within mind, knowing that the majority of veterans we work with do have PTSD.”
Through her classes, articles and work, Nowe wants to give people the same peace of mind and relief she has found through natural methods.
“I want people to feel like they’ve found the will to live when they come to my class, when they read my articles, to find hope again.”