Julie Braden is a professional astrologer, meditation instructor, and an IST practitioner who has been working and writing in the field of human consciousness and internal states for well over ten years.

In 1997 Julie became a licensed astrologer. Her practical interest in astrology opened her up to a more spiritual understanding of reality, and after a transformational personal break out experience in 2000, she left her job in banking and finance and began seven years of exclusive spiritual study with the Clairvision School.

The Clairvision School does not promote typical ‘New Age’ therapies and Julie Braden is not a typical New Age practitioner. Both Julie and the methods she embraces are deeply grounded in spiritual traditions that are thousands of years old, and both are committed to the practical application of these traditions in the real world.

As a result of her direct training with the founder of the Clairvision School, Dr. Samuel Sagan,  Julie became an IST Practitioner in 2006.  IST, which stands for Inner Space Techniques, is a collection of healing practices and meditations revolving around the inner space of third eye meditation. Developed by world-renowned physician Samuel Sagan in the 1980s, IST forms the core practice of the Sagan’s Clairvision School, a tradition that stresses the importance of embodying higher states of consciousness in a practical way in the here and now.

Julie conducts  IST sessions  by phone and in person, and is also available for personalized astrology charts and counseling. An IST session is a healing, whole-body guided meditative regression designed to help the client experience and heal emotional blockages and conditioned behaviors that are no longer useful.   Julie is also keen to share her many  unique and powerful spiritual experiences with you in person and through her writing.

Unlike some popular past life regression therapies (which usually bring about dream-like or vague images of past experiences)  IST sessions elicit intense flashes of past life episodes that include vivid auditory, visual, emotional, or physical sensations. By re-experiencing the past events that caused present day blockages, clients are able to release these blocks and attain a higher level of conscious functioning in their current lives.

Julie Braden is not a typical New Age practitioner. Her focus is always grounded, practical, and intelligent. A sharp critical thinker, Julie Braden rejects any spirituality that lacks a solid experiential background and practical application. Her sound common sense to spirittual work stems from her practical, hands-on, and no nonsense background. Born in Victoria Australia, Julie worked in a factory for a brief period after graduation before landing in the banking industry, where she spent the next 17 years becoming a successful manager with keen practical and financial skills.

In addition to her column at Eye on Life: JBraden Gets Astro Logical, Julie Braden also writes regular feature articles for Hub Pages, where she has been an active contributor for two years.

Readers interested in scheduling an  IST session or an astrology reading can contact Julie directly through this site or Hub Pages.

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