Julie Piatt – Sri Mati : A Modern Mystic’s Journey into Healing and Creativity

POH Frank: One thing that really resonates with me about you is the way people refer to you as a “modern mystic.” I’m curious—do you see yourself as a modern mystic? And what does that term mean to you?

Julie Piatt: Thank you. Yes, I fully embrace that description. If we’re going to use any kind of identity label, that one fits. I’ve had an extraordinary experience of life in that I’ve been communicated with through mysticism in profound ways for as long as I can remember.

I think this is because I love communing with life, experiencing events through devotion. But devotion in my own way—not in any structured, religious form. I’ve traveled through different lineages, but I’ve never subscribed to any particular “ism.” It’s simply the natural way of life when you’re aligned with who you are.

For me, the journey has been a quest—one of discovering more of who I am at an individual level. I call it my “life print,” like a thumbprint or a mandala pattern. Each of us has a unique imprint, a path, and ultimately, that journey leads us back to the oneness of all life, to the single breath that animates everything.

POH Frank: Was there a specific turning point where you thought, “This is it, this is the moment I fully embrace this spiritual path”? Often, people experience some kind of trauma or catalyst that propels them in that direction. 

Julie Piatt: I’ve had plenty of trauma, but no, that wasn’t my defining moment. I was simply born this way. I came into this world already asking what was beyond the physical realm. I had mystical experiences as a child, though I didn’t have the language to understand them at the time. Even today, I feel the same way I did back then. I remember being in a crib as a baby and having this same deep sense of connection. That never changed.

POH Frank: That leads me to Water Tiger, your platform for healing techniques. It’s fascinating what you offer. So, how do you develop these techniques? Did you learn them somewhere? Are they intuitive? Where does this wisdom come from?

Julie Piatt:  About six years ago, I became deeply aware of all the garbage being transmitted through the airwaves—people filming themselves doing the most mundane things, spewing random content into the collective field. Like you said earlier, there are too many people with megaphones, and it’s overwhelming.

I felt a deep calling to create something that was pure, beautiful, and free from any particular dogma. Something that could be used by anyone, no matter where they come from.

I’ve had many teachers in my life—gurus, Native American chiefs, Mayan elders, Vedic masters, even galactic emissaries. I’ve explored it all. At one point, Isabel ( reference to photographer Isabel Snyder)  and I were working with an occult teacher, doing darkroom meditations, trying to conjure ectoplasm—a substance that mediums use to allow spirits to embody it and communicate. I’ve been down every rabbit hole imaginable.

But after all that seeking, I realized—it’s all about perspective. If I ask the same question to a Native American chief, a Himalayan yogi master, and a galactic being, I will get three different answers. Each one shaped by their unique worldview.

So what did I learn? The most important perspective in my life is my own. And the same goes for you. That’s why I created Water Tiger—a platform that helps people discover their own life print, their unique pattern.

Water Tiger is a way to no way. It’s a living platform of techniques. They aren’t channeled from outside of me—they come through me because they are me. Each of us has unique gifts, and these techniques are one of mine.

Every month, I give a two-hour transmission. It includes planetary updates, perspectives on what we’re collectively moving through, and answers to questions from our community. It’s deep. We talk about embodiment, taking consciousness through the body, stabilizing within the Earth’s tectonic plates. Some techniques dissolve into the void, into the fullness of the black empty space. Others amplify creativity, clear trauma, establish boundaries, or even help communicate with difficult relationships across time and space. There are over 50 techniques now in the portal.

But here’s the thing—I’m not a guru. I don’t have dominion over anyone’s life path, nor do I want it. The user alone is responsible for their experience. My role is simply to provide the tools.

POH Frank: You’re involved in so many different fields—music, healing, writing, running a successful business. Do you see a unifying purpose behind all of it? Or do you feel like you’re an octopus, with all these different arms stretching in different directions?

Julie Piatt: For me, it’s all about intimacy with the beyond—with the Muse, with God expressing through me. Every day, I have one appointment, and that’s to place my lips on the edge of the veil, to meet her there, and to listen. She whispers to me, guiding me. It’s not something outside of me—it’s an aspect of me.

We are all emanations of the breath, the force, the divine—call it God, goddess, creation, whatever you like. Every single person reading this interview right now is just as much a part of it. There is no hierarchy in spiritual awareness. No one is more or less spiritual than anyone else. We are all potentially divine if we choose it.

The breath doesn’t care if you’re spiritual or not. It doesn’t care if you’re homeless or if you’re running a school. There’s no hierarchy—just life experience. We are here to experience life.

From a Dominhurian perspective—a spiritual community in Northern Italy, founded in the ‘70s by a man named Falco—there’s this idea that we each carry a unique energetic imprint. When I first visited in 2008 and later became an initiate, I was given an animal and a plant name as part of a ritual practice. They asked me to take the name of the blue whale, so in the community, I am Balenottera Azzurra.

They gave me that name because I do so many things. They said, “Julie, take an animal that can help you accomplish everything you’re meant to do.” And I love that.

Everyone works with the same techniques, but they choose their own path. There’s no step-by-step process, no rigid structure—it’s all intuitive. The techniques are just something that flows through me, part of my life print. I serve the word, whether that’s through music, writing, speaking, or transmitting energy. It’s just how I express myself.

As humans, I think we need to be reminded of our inherent perfection. Right now, as you’re sitting here, you are already a miracle of creation—not once you’ve achieved something, not after some awakening—right now. Water Tiger is designed to help people uncover deeper layers of themselves, to recognize what brings them joy, because that’s what will expand creation.

It’s not about healing the world because it’s broken. The divine is taking care of everything. The Earth is not some fragile thing that needs saving—she’s a galactic star, undergoing her own transformation. We are just contributing to a certain narrative within this realm, while other aspects of ourselves exist simultaneously in different dimensions of space and time.

Look around—life is shifting at an unprecedented rate. The ground beneath us is not stable, and no one really knows what’s going on. There are so many voices, so many opinions, so much noise. But at the end of the day, the only truth that matters is your direct connection to Source. That’s the only thing that’s real.

POH Frank: Are you planning to host any Water Tiger retreats, or is that something you see happening in the future to bring your community together in person?

Julie Piatt: I might.  I’ve been leading retreats for 24 years. Sometimes I’ve done them with 50 people, twice a year—not all the time, of course, since I have a lot of things going on. But I can say that these retreats are transformative. The people who come are not the same when they leave. They’ve expanded into another version of themselves, another experience of life.

So I would wager that I’m probably not done doing retreats because that’s where I feel deeply connected. However, if you look at yourself as a life form, you came here to experience life in form—because we are in the world of form.

Right now, I’m in a phase of reorganization and transformation—especially with my cheese company, Srimu. I’ve taken this artisanal, plant-based cheese to the highest level that I possibly can. I’ve infused it with the most elevated frequency available to me. It’s best in class, the brand is artful, and it’s profoundly beautiful.

But I am not here to be a food operator. That’s not my gift. I’ve recently had this big realization, which I just announced on social media—Srimu may be closing down unless the right partner steps in, someone who can take it to a global level. That’s still a possibility because so many people love it.

But there’s more. There’s something else waiting for me. And right now, that’s music. I’m moving deeply into music.

POH Frank : It seems like there’s always this push and pull: how much energy do you put into something to make it happen, and at what point do you surrender and let it take its own course? How do you navigate this relationship between being the creator of something and realizing it might not be meant to continue in the way you initially envisioned?

Julie Piatt: Well, it was meant to be. It is meant to be. The question is really—what are the rules you’re playing by?

One of the most important aspects of being connected to life is understanding timing. Flow and timing. That’s what we refine when we do the techniques in Water Tiger. Embodiment practices help you feel timing, rather than just think about it.

Listening to a podcast isn’t a technique. Reading about it isn’t a technique. A technique gives you an experience of something. I could describe a peach to you for two hours, but you still wouldn’t truly know what a peach is until you taste it. Our whole culture is obsessed with information—endless podcasts, books, lectures—but we need experiential knowing. There’s a time for everything. The tide comes in, the tide goes out. There’s summer, winter, fall, spring. There are seasons in a human life.

Are you a baby? A child? An adolescent? A young adult? Midlife? Older? It matters.

In Ayurveda, which is the ancient Indian science of medicine, the answer to almost any health question is always the same: For whom, and when?

Are oranges good for you? For whom, and when?

Should you close your photography business? For whom, and when? It’s never a simple yes or no—it depends on the timing, the individual, the circumstances.