The Rev. Julia G. Rusling
City: Grapevine
State: Texas
Languages: English
Personalized Affiliation: Christianity
Spiritual Spheres: Buddhism, Christianity, Eco/Nature-based, Interfaith, Interspiritual
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Email: [email protected]
Phone: 4048953815
Website: http://www.incarnationalgrace.com
Focus Area: Alcoholism, Creative Arts, Divorced/Widowed, Dying/Sick/Hospice, Ecospirituality/Nature-based, Education, Elderly/Mature, Embodiment, Energy Work, Grief and Loss, Homeless/Low Income, Immigrants/Displaced, LGBTQIA+, Mindfulness/Meditation, Non-Traditional Healing, People with Disabilities, Physical or Sexual Abuse, Spiritual Awakening / Mystical Experiences, Women's Issues
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Profile: In 2024 Julia founded Incarnational Grace, a ministry of transformative healing and restorative rest, shaped to release the abundant life to which Spirit invites us with God, Self, and Neighbor (all of Creation), grounded in the contemplative practices of spiritual companioning (spiritual direction), yoga, breathwork, and consulting. A trained and seasoned spiritual director, yoga instructor, and Episcopal priest, Julia has served parishes and led retreats in Rochester (New York), Atlanta, New Orleans, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where she now resides. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Julia has pursued a life time of continued study, practice, training, and leadership in the spiritual life, including the areas of: Labyrinth (with the Rev. Dr. Lauren Atress); Breath-Body-Mind (with Drs. Richard Brown and Patricia Gerbarg); Integrative Restoration (with Dr. Richard Miller); and Buddhist meditation practices (Shambhala Center of Atlanta). In 2004 Julia trained with Dr. Damian Zynda in the art and ministry of spiritual direction (also known as spiritual companioning), particularly in accompanying people in the Ignatian Exercises. In 2015 Julia received her Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200) from the Center for Integrative Yogic Studies, and continued her yoga therapy training over the years, including the completion of a 90 hour Restorative Yoga Certificate in 2024 with Jillian Pransky. Julia has taught hundreds of yoga classes in the parishes she has served, integrating body and breath work with the noticing of the flow of grace, and has led numerous retreats and quiet days both in her own parishes, as well as in other parishes and at a diocesan level. She has also done a great deal of work with vestry and congregational development, and is a graduate of the College for Congregational Development. Racial healing is an important component of Julia’s ministry, and she worked with Dr. Catherine Meeks at the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, where she served on the Bishop’s Advisory Board, worked to develop contemplative days for racial healing, and served on the faculty of justice pilgrimages developed for clergy throughout the national church. While in New Orleans, Julia worked with the commissions of Racial Healing and Creation Care in the beginning work of discerning the shared aspects of their particular callings, and how the Spirit may be calling them to join together in their holy work. In addition to pastoral work, Julia takes great joy in swimming, laughing with friends, getting on the yoga mat, savoring her husband’s or son’s great cooking (especially because she herself is domestically challenged), going for long walks with Popeye (best dog ever!), and reading (possibly way too much reading).
