Julia Gandy, BS, M.Div., Board Certified Massage Therapist

 

Julia has a Business Degree from Rutgers University, Camden and after some time in the business world, she decided, in 1999, to pursue a career in the Wellness industry.  With this combination of skills, she has a unique perspective on wellness in the workplace and how to help businesses exceed in fostering a positive work environment.  Which, in turn, can help build loyalty and retention among employees.

 

In 1999 she became  a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist.  She is a Reiki Master and Medicinal Aromatherapist and is a member of the Associated Massage and Bodywork Professionals.  In 2013, she became a Certified Peace Ambassador through James O'Dea and the Shift Network and she became a Certified Pastoral Crisis Interventionist and a Group Crisis Interventionist.

 

One of her hopes is to bring touch therapies, stress reduction and peacebuilding tools to vulnerable populations  cancer / hospice patients, wheelchair bound individuals, inner-city youth, homeless, victims of abuse and trauma.   She would like to enhance the individual's innate sense of resiliency and provide tools to help bring this alive in themselves for the betterment of community and society at large.  Her aim is to help heal the intergenerational affects of stress and wounding.

 

*In 2009, she became a Licensed HeartMath Provider, enabling her to coach people on the scientifically proven methods of stress reduction that HeartMath, Inc. has developed.  This technology is used by NASA, Fortune 500 companies and NFL teams among others .

 

*She received a degree of Master in Divinity Dec. 2005 through James Twyman’s Beloved Community.  She is an ordained Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking.   Through this she performs wedding ceremonies and baby blessings, peace ceremonies and spiritual counseling.

 

 

Certifications /Education

 

Peace Ambassador, The Shift Network, August 2013

Group Crisis Intervention, July 2013

Pastoral Crisis Intervention,  April 2013

Massage for Critically Ill Hospitalized Patients, Mount Sinai Medical Center, April 2013

The Psychology of the Body – LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series, October 2011

Conflict Resolution – Center for Non-Violent Communications, September 2009

HeartMath, LLC – Licensed HeartMath Provider, June 2009  

Stress and the Body-Mind, August 2009 

Psychoneuroimmunology for Bodyworkers, September 2009 

Massage for Pregnant Women and their Infants, May 2008 

Massage for Infants and Children, August 2006 

Pachamama Alliance Symposium, November 2005 and May 2008 

Massage Therapy for People with Cancer, July 2005 

Spiritual Care of Hospitalized Children and Their Families Research Symposium, June 2005 

Reiki Master, February 2005 

The Beloved Community ~ Mary Magdalene & the Indigo Children Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2004            

Touch Research Institute, University of Miami, March 2002 

Peaceful Passages, September 2002  

The Monroe Institute, Gateway Voyage, September 2002 

Medicinal Aromatherapy, Levels 1 and 2, March 2001 and April 2002, respectively  

National Certification for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, August 2001 

Reiki I and II, March 2000  

Healing Hands School of Massage, October 1999

Rutgers University - Camden, School of Business, May 1993

 

Related Volunteer Work 

 Unitarian Universalist Church of Cherry Hill,  October 2012 - Present

Interfaith Dialogue Coordinator, Leadership Development and Nominating Committee

   Samaritan Hospice, November 2002 ~ Present 

Massage and Reiki to Hospice patients and caregivers 

   Free Day of Healing, October 2002 and March 2003 

                Post 9/11 Community Outreach

I was born and raised in Southern New Jersey, so I know all about moving at a fast pace and the challenge it is to maintain my centering and stay in my peace.  My ideal activity would be to enjoy a good book sitting while sitting in the sun sipping a nice glass of wine.  I also like cooking, geo-caching, and helping out in my church.