Juliette Jarvis

She perceives subtle shifts in the wind with a turn of her fingertips
Speaks stories from unseen realms to listening hearts and ears
She navigates the currents of the natural world, re-membering and witnessing
Slow cooks rich brews for soul food feasting
Makes marks of medicine and births with purpose
Hears the tide change its course and sings to the seals from the shore
sensing rightness through the hairs on her arms
A truth teller, a way shower, a holder of sacred space
she's been called bean feasa mentor, mother, lover
she's been named earth selkie, Sovereign Weaver, Dream Maker
Walking between and within worlds
in ceremony and reciprocity

​Hello. Welcome.

Juliette's Personal Story

​Juliette is a west coaster with a closeness to nature, its creatures and the other-world stories passed to her by the women in her family. At home in the intertidal zone or tucked up in the Selkie Sanctuary cottage, she's dedicated to living a soul-filled life both personally and professionally.

As a child and teen she experienced visions and premonitions awakening her awareness to the realm of Spirit. Now she's a mother, devotional artist, and ceremonialist, able to weave the sacred into these aspects of daily life. Her call to the path of bean feasa was recognized after a combination of traditional factors, including surviving venomous Black Widow bites from head to toe. Ultimately these experiences lead her to an animistic lifestyle, formal training in spiritual practices from her Scottish and Irish heritage, and westernized 'shamanism'.

​An extended personal life crisis, like all dark nights of the soul, necessitated that each piece of healing, wisdom and training she received be integrated and lived fully. Through this, Juliette has formed a bone-deep understanding of how important tending to and maintaining one's spiritual, energetic, and physical aspects is to overcome adversity and move from survival to soul-filled.

Juliette was also introduced to the healing impact of Reiki during a period of debilitating illness as a young person. After her first session, with 8 practitioners working in tandem, her physical recovery was so immediate, that a non-believing witness became an advocate for this natural modality. Decades later, with a desire to return such healing opportunities as she had once received, Juliette began practicing Reiki in 2004 and opened a private healing practice.

It was because of her experience working with energy that Juliette was offered a job as a Brainwave Technologist in 2007 at Finlandia Natural Pharmacy's Brain Health Clinic. This holistic brain balancing technique utilized EEG equipment, neural technology, intimate knowledge of healthy brainwave electrical patterns, visualizations and energetic care for clients seeking relief from trauma imprints in brain function. These clients needed a grounding presence and a room clear from the residual affects of others healing through past traumatic events. Previous technicians had been absorbing this residual energy which then manifested in physical ailments.  Naturally her newly gained knowledge of brainwave patterns, and the healing power of restoring this balance, crossed over into her private practice and vice versa, clients at the Brain Health Clinic also sought soul-level healing to complete their holistic recovery. With a developed sensitivity to energetic impulses, a robust understanding of brainwave patterns, and a form of muscle testing, Juliette is able to encourage positive change without electronic devices.

With hands-on-healing and brainwave balancing sharing a common theme of subtle physical electrical systems, Juliette found another similarity in the use of crystals and their affect on our well-being. She began a line of crystal elixirs, largely created during potent celestial events or community ceremonies. During one such event in 2012, an elixir was being created to align one's soul path with their day-to-day world. Three days later, the Brain Health Clinic unexpectedly shut its doors and Juliette dedicated herself full time to her healing practice.

Her artistic career began while still in highschool, with paintings showing and selling from British Columbia to Ontario and Quebec. Screeved pieces were photographed by Beautiful British Columbia magazine, and agents sold her work to private collectors through the 1990s. Juliette's paintings began to be more heavily influenced by her animistic lifestyle, intuition, and channelings. She received an invitation to present in the International Women's Day Art Show in 2015 and continued to show there annually until 2019 as well as in various solo showings on the west coast. During this time she assisted in a weekly Waldorf school art class and began privately tutoring children with a remedial focus as well as offering both group and individual adult painting sessions as a healing ceremony. Intentional paintings, photography, sculpture, and the making of sacred tools are integral components to her well-being.

From 2019 onward, Juliette has been cultivating a 1,000 square foot arts studio and ceremonial space at the Selkie Sanctuary homestead. It's here where she grows dye plants, flax fibre, and medicinal herbs. Hosts ceremonial gatherings and devotional arts workshops. And writes everything from heathen advice columns to sacred living supports to occult fiction novels. She writes the monthly column Return to Reverence in qathet Living magazine and is periodic contributor to various newspapers and other publications. Interviews on podcasts and radio also happen from time to time with topics ranging from spiritual living to photographing garbage on the shores of British Columbia.

Juliette has most recently been involved in Scottish charity law as Recording Secretary for the Save Armadale - Clan Donald Campaign and simultaneously launched Raven Tongue Magazine, receiving incredible international support and achieving Kickstarter fundraising goals within 4 days.
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Juliette's Professional Practice

Winter Solstice Fire Ceremony - Photo Credit: David Buzzard

• I began my private Reiki healing practice, The Reiki Connection, on Commercial Drive in Vancouver BC during 2007. Soon after, I became a neurofeedback technician and began to bring my knowledge of the brain and how it is affected by trauma, into my healing practice. It was during this time I was commissioned to write health & wellness articles for Finlandia Pharmacy that held spiritual living elements.
• My journey into 'shamanic' practice began in 2007 when I asked a bean feasa, for insight about the many poisonous spider bites I had received. To continue this exploration, I entered into a 3 year Celtic based women's 'shamanic' apprenticeship.
• In 2011 I moved my practice to Squamish BC and began incorporating 'shamanic' healing services into both my neurofeedback and reiki clients' sessions. My offerings also began to include community ceremonies.
• By January 2013 I was offering 'shamanic' community gatherings and workshops in both Squamish and North Vancouver. Later that year, regular monthly journey circles had been established and my practice became known as 3 Fold Balance with a focus on trauma and personal crisis recovery.  
• I began a small focus group called 'Shamanic Living' in support of a handful of dedicated journey circle attendees in 2015, and I undertook two 'Shamanic' Teacher courses with Sandra Ingerman who brought an emphasis to connecting 'shamanic' skills with people from all faiths and cultural backgrounds.
• The small focus group evolved into full year long 'Shamanic Living Immersion' program in 2016 and a second year program, 'Shamanic Medicine Ways' was developed. These programs supported people in reclaiming their lost cultural traditions, cultivate a spiritual practice that is meaningful and seamlessly merges with day-to-day living, and reconnect and align with the natural world.
• During 2017, my home & studio space on the Upper Sunshine Coast began its journey to becoming a healing retreat center. Community supported and carefully cultivated, "The Sanctuary" is a dream made reality. This space allowed me to expand my practice and offer services to my hometown within the qathet region. Various magazine columns and regular monthly writing contributions to e-zines were also underway.
• 2018 saw the implementation of greater online supports with workshops and an augmented virtual 'Shamanic Living Immersion' program for long distance members. Oracle Cards and Mini Divination Cards were also birthed and are now available for purchase.
• In 2019 I began writing my monthly column, Return to Reverence, in qathet Living magazine and moved full time into The Sanctuary. Able to dedicate to full time care taking and development, it was to become the hub for ceremonial activity, medicine gatherings, soul-tending retreats, and mentorship opportunities. Alas, after this year, the pandemic put these activities on hold and the idea to bring the 'Shamanic Living Immersion 'program into book form for greater accessibility, home study, and allow for beginning at any point within the year was seeded.
• 2020 has seen the 'Shamanic' Immersion programs re-written to rely less heavily on the word 'shamanic' as it is a misappropriated and narrowly understood term here in the west. The two, year-long immersion programs are then known as the Return to Reverence Immersion Program and consisted of two years with select mentorship available. Further development of creative arts based methods of personal healing work & spiritual practice had also been put on hold due to the pandemic and cessation of community offerings. More online courses were added and the 3 month Medicine Bundle Carrier program began in the Spring.  At this time, all in-person sessions and gatherings were on hold.
• The creation of a west coast devotional arts practice through a new venue, The Selkie Sanctuary also came about in the autumn of 2020. Featuring ceremonial ceramics, hand woven ritual wear, string magic, talismans, and spirit dolls, my focus shifted to hands on, tangible magic and healing objects created here in our beach cottage to be sent out to those who are drawn to such workings.
• In 2022, the Devotional Arts Program, a monthly online sacred making experience suited to creative heathens, witches, spirit walkers and energy workers began under the Selkie Sanctuary banner.
• Early in 2023 I was elected to the Secretary position for the  Timberlane Fine Arts Association for 2 years on the board.
• Soul Food in Starving Times my first eBook, became an international best seller, placing #1 in Spirituality and #1 in New Age Self Help the Summer of 2023.
• The Selkie Sanctuary studio and homestead became entirely rainwater dependent January 1st 2024
• How to Be in Circle, my 2nd eBook was released in 2024, reaching Top New Release in Women's Spirituality and #4 in Spiritual Self-Help Books
• The Save Armadale - the Clan Donald Campaign, an international Scottish heritage protection movement took me on as Recording Secretary in 2025.
• Raven Tongue Magazine a print-only publication hosting 30 contributors across Canada, the UK, and US launched in 2025 shortly after I created Raven Tongue Publishing house in order to host it.

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Inspiring words from those I've worked with
"I always found seeing her very helpful. She is an insightful, caring practitioner and felt excellent after seeing her. She is also a lovely person, a true healer, Thank you, Juliette."
~ Mandy C.