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through dance. Her original idea
for Kinrgy was straightforward: to
create a class or app that would be
like the SoulCycle of dance. But she
ended up scrapping the idea; it
didn’t feel substantial enough.
A meeting with Endeavor talent
agency CMO Bozoma Saint John,
who’d done Julianne’s method at a
retreat and become hooked, was
pivotal. She urged Julianne to think
outside the box. “Let’s create a
movement,” Saint John told her.
“I was like, ‘I want to do that, but
how? ’ ” Ju l ia n ne re c a l l s. “ You ju st
do it,” Saint John replied. “The
minute that happened, everything
shifted for me,” says Julianne.
Expanding her reach—with
plans for both a studio in Los Ange-
les and global events in which par-
ticipants around the world will
dance simultaneously—meant the
pr ac t ic e had to be more ac c e s sible.Designed for nondancers, the
45-minute method isn’t about
perfecting the choreography—
which does include moves such as
“sexy lunges” and Magic Mike–like
hip thrusts—but instead, moving
in a way that’s nurturing to each
individual. And developing Kinrgy
proved to be cathartic for Julianne,
who says it’s helped her unpack
some tough childhood experienc-
es. “I’ve been de-layering all
the survival tactics I’ve built up
my whole life,” she says. “Now, I
feel limitless.”
Her hop e i s t hat ot her s w i l l have a
similarly life-changing experience
when the method launches this year.
“When I think about what I want to
cre ate, I wa nt to help p e ople c on ne c t
back to their truest self. When that
happ en s, t hey c a n relate to t he p e o -
ple around them with no filter and
experience the world how we’re sup-
posed to experience it—in its most
pure form, which I believe is love.”
Julianne recently got a crash
course in the whole “no filter” thing
i n a d i fferent way, p osi ng for t he
cover of this Naked Strength issue.“When I think about
what I want to create,
I want to help people
connect back to their
truest self.”