hello!
I’m Julia Granacki, a board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC), Pilates instructor, and long-time translator of body signals, identity shifts, and the thoughts that show up uninvited at 3 a.m
About
living in the liminal
I work with people navigating the liminal space of aging, identity shifts, chronic stress, hormonal transitions, injury, and those moments when familiar strategies stop working. This includes women, queer people, trans and nonbinary folks, and anyone whose body or identity doesn’t fit neatly into the stories we’re handed about health, aging, or who gets to remain visible.
AGECRAFT by JULIA G. WELLNESS is the practice that grew out of my own reckoning with change — not as something to resist or optimize, but as something to learn how to live alongside.
How This Practice Came to be
If luck is where preparation meets opportunity, then manifestation is where ritual meets intention. AGECRAFT lives at that intersection.
In October 2025, nearly five years into running my own practice and standing on the precipice of turning 50, I knew, deep in my gut, that something was ready to change.
My work had focused primarily on women navigating perimenopause and menopause, and that still matters deeply to me. But the questions getting louder were bigger and more expansive. I was hearing them everywhere — in client sessions, in my own body, in the quiet hours when the world goes still, and the mind doesn’t.
The work wanted to widen: aging as initiation, identity in motion, and work that fully includes LGBTQI+ lives and bodies.
So I did what any sensible Witch would do.
I organized my intentions.
I siphoned my ideas into a New Moon ritual.
And then I took action.
The AGECRAFT Practice was born.
practice not perfection
Something is shifting.
Maybe quietly. Maybe loudly.
Maybe in your body. Maybe in how you see yourself.
AGECRAFT is for people who refuse to disappear into the background or be forced into someone else’s definition of “healthy,” “aging well,” or “acceptable.”
There’s no final version waiting at the end.
There’s just practice.
Welcome to AGECRAFT.
Let’s learn how to craft a life that can actually hold what emerges.
What I Believe And
How I Work
Visibility Is a Form of Activism and Resistance
Health, in this practice, isn’t about returning to a past version of yourself or chasing an idealized future one. It’s about building capacity (physical, emotional, and nervous-system resilience) for the life you’re actually living now.
I work collaboratively, not prescriptively. Together, we look at:
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How your body has adapted over time
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How stress, identity, history, and environment show up in your lived experience
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What support looks like now, not what “should” be working
Movement, rest, nutrition, hormones, and meaning are interconnected. Ignoring one to “fix” another rarely works.
AGECRAFT treats aging and transition as initiation, a process that asks for skill, curiosity, and compassion rather than control. In a world that tells certain bodies to shrink, soften, or disappear, visibility becomes a deliberate act of resistance.
Education
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Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Central Florida
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Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, NBC-HWC
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Health and Wellness Coaching Certification from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN)
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Hormone Health Certification from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN)
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Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan Certification from Harvard Medical School
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Pilates Mat and Apparatus Certifications from the Kane School of Core Integration
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Level 2 Neuro Studio Teacher
Outside the Session
I’m a dog-parent, a hockey fan (Go Devils), a sci-fi and cosmic-mystery devotee, and someone who has lived enough lives to know that bodies and identities are forever evolving.
I write, podcast, and teach because stories matter, especially the ones we’re told about who we’re allowed and not allowed to become as we age.
Stay in touch!
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Stephanie A.
Love working with Julia! We train for my sports. I felt really strong last time on the mountain after purposefully getting ready for snowboarding.
Erin F.
I’m so happy to have met Julia and look forward to our session together each week. After each session I feel taller, looser and accomplished for pushing my body gently forward to do something new.
Josh C.
Studying Pilates with Julia has helped me feel more integrated with my body instead of a clumsy pilot. I appreciate the safe space to make attempts at movements I may have otherwise avoided.
Barbara A.
Julia's sessions were tailored to meet my specific needs. They improved my balance, strength, and confidence. I feel so much better when walking and doing everyday activities!