RoquesAnn Armstrong describes a moment that a lot of people will recognize. You have read the books. You have been to therapy. You intellectually understand the pattern you are trying to break. And yet, there it is; still stubborn, still stuck.
“All the time, my clients will say, ‘I understand what is happening, but I’m still struggling to change this behavior,'” she says. “That’s because it feeds the brain, the mental voice. It doesn’t actually shift anything in the body, the deeper subconscious.” Closing that gap, between understanding something and actually transforming it, is what RoquesAnn has spent nearly two decades working toward. It is also what led her to co-found WildGrace, a wellness studio in Murray, Utah, that is quickly becoming something the community did not quite know it was missing.
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For RoquesAnn, Murray was never just a business decision. She grew up here, an alum of Parkside Elementary, Hillcrest Junior High, and Murray High School before life took her elsewhere. When she and her co-founder, Jill Franklyn, began searching for a location, Murray kept calling her back.
“It was really symbolic of my own personal roots and the way we come full circle,” she says.
That homecoming has been warmly received. From the Chamber of Commerce to the Murray Partners 4 Prevention Coalition, the support has been genuine and overwhelming. A city council member who attended their grand opening spoke candidly about his own mindfulness journey. Connections that had been dormant for decades began resurfacing. Even Sheri Vanbibber of the Mental Health Coalition turned out to be the mother of RoquesAnn’s childhood best friend. “It’s a small community,” she says, “and the connections run deep.”
RoquesAnn lives in Fairview now with her husband, who also owns a business in Murray, and their three children — daughter Lia, 13, and eight-year-old twin boys Finn and Kendrick. The family homeschools and helps lead a co-op in their community, guided by the same founding principles that drive WildGrace: connection, slowing down, and coming back to what matters.
RoquesAnn’s path into healing began with yoga certification, then expanded into 14 years of holistic nutrition after facing her own health challenges. Over time, she developed a framework built around three pillars: physical, structural, and emotional and spiritual. It was that third category consistently the most neglected and that became her focus.
She developed a modality she calls emotional clearing, a practice that guides clients into the body rather than the mind to locate and release trapped beliefs and behaviors at their source.
“If you could clear a behavior at that deep emotional level,” she explains, “it would more or less resolve. They weren’t coming back to it over and over again.”
WildGrace opened in Murray in 2025 after what RoquesAnn describes as a period of deep prayer and meditation that made the next step unmistakable. Within a week of searching for a space, they had found one. The interior was designed intentionally. Now warm, welcoming, nothing sterile or intimidating so that someone walking in for the first time would feel safe enough to explore.
Current offerings include mindful stretching, beginner meditation, and a men’s circle on Tuesday evenings, with Thursday nights and Sundays launching soon. Quarterly day-long retreats and an eight-week mindfulness integration program round out the vision.
“We really wanted it to feel like coming home,” RoquesAnn says. “A safe place to reconnect — with these tools, with community, and with yourself.”
You can find WildGrace in Murray, Utah, and follow along at @wildgrace.ut on Instagram.
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