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Jess specializes in stress, pain, and anxiety management, dying, death, and grief-work, and is honored to hold space and offer comfort touch for the dying and their caregivers. Jess loves to blend BodyMind Coaching with Reiki, CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release, Lymph Drainage Technique, Reflexolo-chi ™, Yoga Nidra, Breathwork, Sound Meditation, Aromatherapy, AromaTouch® Technique, along with various Massage techniques (myofascial release, relaxation/well-ness, grief massage, Neuromuscular technique). Jess welcomes, into her life and work, a life-time of loving the natural world and decades of experience (and activism) as a feminist, anti-racist, a ritualist, ceremonialist, educator, and practitioner of Earth-based spiritual practice. She officiates and facilitates weddings/unions, funerals, namings, coming of age ceremonies, mother/parent blessings, solar and lunar holy day rituals and ceremonies, house clearings and blessings, and other gateways, thresholds, and rites of passages that mark transitions in our lives.
Master’s in Liberal Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies and Leadership and Counseling (‘97, Eastern Michigan University), Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and Bodyworker (‘98, Ann Arbor Institute of Massage Therapy), Certified BodyMind Method© Coach, Certified End-of-Life Doula, Certified Transformational Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher, Reiki Master Teacher (Usui lineage and Holy Fire ®Karuna®), Final Touch, and numerous other certifications in various modalities. Jess is a wisdom seeker and wisdom speaker.