Allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Cassandra Juniphant, Founder of Ori Ara.  Today I am a happy Wife, and Mother of 2 teens.  However, when I started this journey in 2012, I was quite the opposite and would not recognize me today.  Although my circumstances did not look like it, something told me that a better life was possible.  And it turns out that I was right. 

I now know that we CAN have it all… and it starts with our health.

I started my fitness journey around the same time as my spiritual journey in the midst of a divorce after leaving the church (BTW, my ex husband was a Minister so leaving the church was a pretty big deal).

Like many women I struggled to lose the baby weight.  I was doing jumping lunges when I dislocated my knee and went to Google to find way to workout without hurting my knee.  I stumbled across bodybuilding.com and was in awe of those women.  I didn’t know women worked out like that or had muscle and decided I needed to know more. My next Google search helped me find a Coach within 10 miles of me.  And since the next closet Coach was over 50 miles away, I knew that it was a sign.  I didn’t know what I was doing and was broke, but knew I was being called to try.

That Google search led to a 5 year bodybuilding career before turning pro in 2016. I fell in love with what I was learning about my body and became a Certified Personal Trainer, owned a gym, taught yoga, sold supplements, studied martial arts and nutrition (below are some artifacts I’ve collected over the years).  And this was all alongside climbing the corporate ladder as a Human Resources Executive, Adjunct Professor and single mom of 2 little ones.  If you are wondering “how?” it's real easy.  My health was responsible for the energy, ambition and motivation for the success in my career.

One day, I was struggling to get through my workout as I was getting ready for a bodybuilding competition.  I was about to give up when I heard God/Source say loud and clear “This is what We came for” and in that instant I got the download that our body is a gift to be used to experience the joy of life.  And since that day, over 10 years ago, I have been called to share about the Divinity of our body.

Ori Ara was created in 2021 as a channel for sharing how to develop a relationship and honor the body our Spirit calls home.  Although I have been sharing my self-care practices as a single mother, Executive, now Entrepreneur and Wife.  This is one of very few places you’ll see my story because Ori Ara isn’t about me.  It’s about using my experience (and the countless women I’ve worked with over the years) to cut through the noise and truly see YOU.  Consistent self-care over the years has allowed me to know my superpowers.  Now I am here in service to you and guide you to yours.  

Meeting me is an invitation to start your self-care journey.  But I should warn you that I only speak to the you that is in her highest, happiest, favorite timeline.  When you accept the invite, you are agreeing to meet me there.

If you’ve made it this far you know way more about me than I do about you.  Come find me and introduce yourself!  I really would love to meet you!

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“A healthy body vibrates at the frequency of your wildest dreams!”

-Cassandra Juniphant, MBA, PHR, CPT