Powerful Ease. Grounded Calm. Full Body Presence
A Gentle Doorway back to Balance, Clarity, & Ease
Many people arrive here because they’re tired, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of carrying tension, tired of pushing through pain or fatigue, tired of feeling disconnected from themselves.
Often, they’ve tried everything except addressing what’s happening underneath: the body’s natural rhythm, energy flow, and emotional landscape.
Based in the peaceful surroundings of Puerto Vallarta, I offer Subtle SOMA Therapy online and in person, creating a nurturing environment where your system can shift from coping to healing.
It’s about helping your system release what it’s been holding, so you can feel whole again.
Subtle SOMA Therapy, is a specialized and unique somatic approach that helps release deep, automatic physical, emotional, and soul felt patterns your body has been carrying from heavy life experiences, which could also be classified as trauma. This somatic therapy gently supports you to feel grounded, clear, and at ease again, so you can take the actions that are desired to make positive life choices.
This therapy touches the physical, emotional and spiritual layers of healing.
My Approach:
My unique therapeutic approach is a synergetic Subtle Soma experience that weaves together:
TRE® Therapy, in therapeutic tremoring for nervous system regulation. I guide therapeutic tremoring to support nervous system regulation. Sessions may include gentle embodiment movements, breathwork (pranayama), involuntary pulsations, tremors or vibrations, and meditative soundscapes. Together, these elements allow your body to unwind stress patterns safely and organically.
Flower Essence Therapy, in vibrational medicine, bridging body & soul. I also work with flower essences as a subtle vibrational bridge between body and soul. As the body begins to feel safe through TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release), deeper emotions may naturally surface. Personalized flower essence blends used as external sprays and/or internal drops, support emotional unfolding with compassion, clarity, and spiritual reconnection, all in a grounded and supportive way.
Flower Essence Repertoires & Remedies that are explored:
BACH Original Flower Remedies (38 remedies)
FES Quintessentials Flower Remedies (103+ remedies)
Range of Light Flowers (48 essences)
Everything I do is slow, supportive, and tailored to your pace.
I will guide your system into unwinding the patterns that keep you stuck in stress, exhaustion, or emotional heaviness, even if you’re not sure why you feel that way.
Many people who find this work say things like:
“I’m exhausted, but I can never fully relax.”
“My emotions are everywhere, I feel scattered.”
“I thought I healed that part of me, why am I still triggered?”
“I feel tense all the time, even when nothing is wrong.”
“My mind is racing, and I don’t know how to slow it down.”
“I’ve healed physically… but something still feels ‘off.’”
“I’m just not myself lately.”
What people are describing is often the body’s way of saying it needs a new kind of support, one that goes deeper than mindset or willpower.
Subtle Soma Therapy helps your body remember how to soften, release, and come into ease again. Moving you through emotional blockages and closer towards soul alignment.
A Different Way to Feel Better
You don’t need to understand the nervous system or vibrational energy healing for this work to help you. You simply need to be open to the possibility that your body knows more than your mind has been able to explain.
“Elena didn’t think anything was wrong, she just felt tense for no clear reason. Through gentle somatic practices, she began noticing how her shoulders dropped, her breath softened, and her mind felt clearer. She realized she had been stuck in a subtle stress pattern she couldn’t see until her body let go of it.”
The Body Carries What the Mind Cannot
Stress, grief, illness, or simply years of “holding it all together” can show up as:
Tension in the jaw, shoulders, or back
Irritability or emotional “flatness”
Exhaustion no amount of sleep fixes
Trouble focusing
Feeling disconnected from your emotions
A sense of heaviness you can’t explain
This doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong. It simply means your system has been working hard for a long time, and it’s ready for something softer.
How Subtle SOMA Therapy Sessions Support You…
I create the conditions your body needs to feel supported enough to release the stress it has been holding.
Quiet, intentional space
Deepened breath
Awareness of subtle sensations
Gentle release of tension
Soft vibrations through the body
Emotional release
Moments of clarity or lightness
Expanded perception
A felt pull toward a new direction
Each session is tailored to your body’s pace, never forced, and offered online or in person.
Why Clients Choose Subtle Soma Therapy:
Challenge: Subtle Soma Therapy Benefit
Chronic stress, pain, or illness
Calms the nervous system and restores vitality
Emotional trauma or burnout
Reconnects body, mind, and spirit through awareness
Anxiety or dysregulation
Builds resilience and balance through energy flow
Disconnection or numbness
Awakens inner presence and self-compassion
Spiritual disconnection
Restores peace, clarity, and inner harmony
Know that In deep healing, this is when you feel:
Grounded yet radiant
Still yet vibrantly alive
Honest yet Self Compassionate
Human and divine, seamlessly integrated
TRE® Therapeutic Tremoring for Nervous System Regulation…
BACH Original Flower Essences
38 Remedies
Discovered in the 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach, these target specific emotions like fear, uncertainty, or loneliness. They are used for managing emotional harmony and include remedies like Rescue Remedy.
FES Quintessentials Flower Essences
103+ Remedies
These are produced in California and are made from flowers grown in Biodynamic® gardens or in nature. They are developed to meet the needs of modern consciousness, extending beyond the original Bach system.
Range of Light Flowers Essences
48 Remedies
A specific, specialized collection within the FES line, featuring 48 essences created in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. These represent another octave in healing themes, often focusing on deeper soul development, spiritual connection, and the synthesis of human and elemental forces.
Hi there, I’m Julia Athena…
transmitter of Vikara Wellness Retreats & Holistic Health & Subtle SOMA Therapy. Sober Living. Nervous System Regulation Therapy. Emotional Intelligence & Soul-Based Development. My work is rooted in a deep love for the body’s wisdom and the joy that becomes available when we learn how to listen to it.
I didn’t arrive here through a straight line. My path has been shaped by curiosity, change, and a lot of inner listening. Like many of us, I moved through seasons of searching, trying different ways of living, relating, and understanding myself before finding what truly felt aligned. Over time, those experiences taught me how powerful it is to slow down, tune in, and let the nervous system lead the way.
Yoga and embodiment entered my life as an invitation rather than a goal. What began as a personal practice quickly became a source of connection, presence, and genuine happiness. The more I listened to my body, the more ease, clarity, and joy I found, and eventually, the more I felt called to share that experience with others.
In 2012, I founded Vikara Wellness, which has since grown into retreats and recovery-informed wellness programs in Mexico. Living and working here has allowed me to witness the beauty of transformation in real time, as people soften, reconnect, and remember parts of themselves that may have been waiting quietly for attention.
As my private practice evolved, Subtle Soma Therapy emerged, a nervous system regulation therapy model I created for emotional intelligence and soul-based development. Combining TRE® embodiment methods with Vibrational Flower Essence Remedies. This work is about cultivating self-awareness, emotional fluency, and a felt sense of safety in the body so we can meet life with more openness, creativity, and joy.
I’m trained as a holistic health counselor, E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, certified TRE® provider, Shaking Medicine teacher, and in active 2026-cohort with Flower Essence Studies to become a Flower Essence Practitioner, but what guides me most is presence and lived experience. I believe healing doesn’t have to be heavy, it can be gentle, expansive, and even joyful.
My intention is to create spaces where people feel supported enough to slow down, reconnect, and truly enjoy being in their bodies, opening the door to a life that feels more grounded, alive, and aligned.
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