People are complex, and the road to health for each of us may look different. Change may be part of that for some people, and acceptance and integration may be the magic ingredients for others. Whatever the case, Julie Watters and her project partners will use creativity, connection and collaboration to find the best path to the whole you starting today.
About Julie Watters
Julie Watters is wellness trainer, coach, and educator who brings a whole-person approach to her work. Blending in over two decades of experience as a visual and performing artist and teacher with her comprehensive background in movement and specific actions around disease, chronic illness, and trauma, she delivers creative and engaging new ways for adults and children to embrace healthy living.
Julie is the owner of a new brick-and-mortar wellness facility in her hometown of Leeds, AL, Fit City Movement & Arts. A judgement free space, Fit City allows patrons a variety offerings geared toward embodiment, strength, balance, expression, and community.
Julie regularly designs and delivers programs to corporations, academic institutions, civic groups and non-profits.
EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS
Total Parkinson’s program at Greystone YMCA, 2021 - present
Consultant, Instructor, and founding program designer for Greystone Campus coursework.
Bare Hands Art Club (of Bare Hands, Inc), 2010 - 2020
Founding art director, program designer, and instructor for non profit arts program serving homeless and critically at-risk youth in collaboration with the YWCA of Central Alabama
Behavior Change Specialist, 2020
Corrective Exercise Specialist, 2018
8 Elements Culminate, 2016
Belly dance performance graduate under the tutelage of Rachel Brice in Portland, OR
Cancer Exercise Specialist, 2012
Graduate of Central Alabama’s first Cancer Exercise Specialism (CETI) through partnership with UAB and the YMCAs of Greater Birmingham
SAMPLE CLIENTELE
AMERICAN (Cast Iron Pipe, Co.)
University of Alabama at Birmingham Honor’s House
U.A.B. Men’s Blazers Basketball
Miles College Athletics
Auburn University/
Blue Ridge Conference on Leadership, Black Mountain, NC
Starnes Davis Florie, LLP
ProAssurance
YMCA of Central Alabama
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama
Brookwood Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
UAB Gynecologic Oncology
Tarrant City Schools
Leeds City Schools
WJ Christian School
Crisis Center of Birmingham/Rape Response
TEDx Birmingham
Leeds First United Methodist Church
CanSurvive
American Cancer Society - Birmingham
Birmingham Red Cross
Jefferson County Library System