Life
oh life
where to start?
For the purpose of visibility and authenticity, I’ll start with the very basics of how I grew up to become who I am now.
Growing up
My full name is Julia Steinbacher, I was born and raised 1991 in Rankweil, a small town in a big, urban and industrial valley at the foothills of the majestic Alpes in western Austria. I grew up spending most of my childhood roaming around in the woods up in the mountains, where we had a holiday house. It was my biggest joy to pack my adventure bag with all the most important tools and research gear and to run off into nature. Not for the purpose of searching or understanding anything specific, just for the pure joy of roaming around outside and exploring. Clearly, I already dreamed about being a Naturalist, but as I later understood, not in the ‘traditional’ way.
I also had some little social and creative projects going on, collecting money for good causes with all kinds of handcrafted things and organizing a family benefit concert. I loved crafting, bringing people together, playing music, sharing my creations, inspiring and helping people in some way or another and the very first basic vision of having a kind of community/coffee/event location place one day, for all these things to come together, took on form within me.
As you can maybe already imagine, I was a cheeky wild and also a sensitive caring child. A social butterfly, thriving in leadership, but also a lone wolf at the same time, with a strong focus and dedication for the project at hand, jumping from one passion to the next and being an Individualist at heart, I was always incapable of following any path but my own.
A wide range of Hobbies marked my childhood. Obviously, I joined the Scouts, collecting badges and learning how to be a group leader, then I spent the winters on skies in the racing team and I started playing the clarinet with 6 years old, joining the brass band and later also learning the keyboard, then piano and saxophone in music high school. Summer camps also thought me some 5 chords bonfire guitar skills. By then, naturally, I dreamed about being a Singer/Songwriter and a Musician, but I never actually believed in myself. I did plan to study Music and Movement Education anyways though, preparing for the piano entrance exam already, before travelling changed everything for me and playing music disappeared completely from my life.
“Livin’ the dream”
With circumstances in my teenage years though, I distanced myself further and further away from my passions of loving to create, express and help. Alcohol became my new best friend, my rock and roll mask my protection and running towards a carefree dream life my only mission.
Even though the feeling of something missing, of feeling empty and lost inside and outside in the world, grew over the years, I am also beyond grateful for the richness of having lived life to the fullest, packed with adventures, crazy times, rock bottoms and sky rockets.
In the end, it was ‘Long-Covid’ - or a very physical spiritual awakening - and a serious case of a horrific Scabies Infection, that completely burned out the last bit of life force energy I’ve been running on and it had me crawling back home defeated on all fours. This is where my journey of healing and reconnecting with my roots and my truth began.
It wasn’t all bad though, don’t get me wrong. My new found love for surfing, travelling and snowboarding saved me on so many levels. I spent most of my 20’s doing seasonal work in Winterresorts as a Barkeeper, sometimes working other occasional odd jobs or volunteer work during the rest of the year. The goal was to work and spend the least and save the most money, in order to live a simple and free live and to have as much time as possible to spend on my Surfboard, Snowboard and Travelling.
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Bear with me, Luna is a toddler, just learning to walk and talk. My Vision is for all of these projects to grow big and strong. So if you want to grow with me, follow me on my explorations and expansions, be inspired or guided, stay connected or you just simply enjoy my work and want to support me on my path, sign up to my newsletter, I promise, I won’t spam you.
There’ll be updates once or twice a month, about my projects, my journey, my music and my offerings and maybe also the occasional story or poem, whatever will arise in that moment in time.