Sonic Soul Retrieval
Sonic Soul Retrieval is not something I created overnight, it’s something that grew with me.
It’s the culmination of all my years of wandering, learning, breaking open, rebuilding, studying, teaching, and listening - deeply listening - to life, to people, to energy, to sound, to myself. This work isn’t about escaping pain or pretending everything is love and light. It’s about turning toward what hurts with reverence.
Because the truth is - the wisdom is in the wound.
As you know, I don’t separate darkness from light; I don’t believe in bypassing the hard parts. I do believe in walking with and witnessing them to honor them.
Through Sonic Soul Retrieval, we enter the deeper layers of who you are; the wild, untamed, instinctual parts of you that don’t fit neatly into the roles you’ve been taught to play. This is about returning to your Soul Self… not just performing as your Avatar Self.
A lot of the people I work with are holding a lot - pressure, responsibility, family, work, health, and their creative spirit, all the while navigating the world we live in. It’s hard to juggle all those things when every one of them requires so much focus and attention; a deep exhaustion can start to settle deep in the bones and begin to cloud the mind, and thus the vision and the path forward.
This is where I can help.
These sacred spaces that we co-create become a space to reset your nervous system, recalibrate your energy, and expand your capacity to hold both yourself, your life, and everything else in it.
I weave together everything I’ve studied and mastered - Pranic Healing, Biofield Tuning, Reiki, meditation, trauma-informed movement and breathwork, sound healing - all into something that feels less like a modality and more like a living, breathing experience that shifts as you evolve.
At its core, Sonic Soul Retrieval is rooted in something very simple and very ancient: the intelligence of life itself. Light, sound, breath, the elements, the Four Directions, the celestial weather, and the unseen currents that move through us, and thereby influence the way we move through life. We work with these, not as concepts, but as living forces, to clear what feels stuck, to dissolve what no longer belongs, and bring you back into alignment with your own vitality. Because underneath it all- you already know who you are.
There’s a line I come back to often: There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. I don’t believe in fixing you or ‘healing’ you - there is nothing wrong with you. I believe in meeting you, sitting with you, and guiding you.
I blend Eastern medicine, sound healing, subtle energy, somatics and nervous system regulation practices in order for you to feel embodied and wild, soft and grounded, safe and expanded. These sessions are deeply sensory, connecting all parts and pieces of you. We will breathe together creating a sacred space where magic can enter. We will visualize together, perhaps even walking through the footsteps of lives once lived; we may consult the Oracle using Tarot or crystals or dream interpretation. We’ll work through activating meridians and nadi’s and feel how they influence your spine, organs or full body systems.
We’ll tone together so you can hear your own voice, using your own vibration to calm the nervous system. You’ll experience the effect of different sound waves moving through your body - Koshi chimes tuned to elements, crystal bowls tuned to Chakras, tuning forks humming Solfeggio frequencies, Tibetan bowls, gongs, and pangi chimes bringing wood and an ocean drum offering water … these layers of sound don’t just relax you, they speak to parts of you that words can’t reach, through waveforms that can be experienced.
I’ve spent years bridging the worlds of science and energy - working in research spaces while also walking the path of intuitive and shamanic practice. The science, spirit and shamanic world form a rather beautiful overlap - with us in the center.
At the heart of all of it is a deep devotion to the Divine Feminine and her rage, her wildness and her wisdom. Through this deep connection to my own magic and my devoted connection to yours, we bring your parts and pieces home, inviting shadow into light- allowing for what I call a bothness (because we are never just one thing.)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ Dr. Carl Jung
Sonic Soul Retrieval exists at the intersection of nervous system science, vibrational medicine, sacred ritual, embodiment, and ancient wisdom traditions. These sessions are a way of welcoming back your most exiled parts, and through loving and integrating them, you become more whole, more aligned, grounded, centered you, in the fact, you become the most you-iest you.
To book a session please click here.
Xoxo
Breathwork + Guided Meditation
There’s something about the breath that feels almost too simple… and yet, it’s everything.
It’s the first thing we do when we arrive here, and the last thing we do when we leave. And somewhere in between, we forget it’s even there, regulating us, acting as a guide to bring us back home to ourselves.
Breath, to me, hasn’t always felt like magic.
I’m probably not supposed to say that as a Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator, but I prefer honesty and truth over purple-washed facts, gift-wrapped toxic positivity, and stale affirmations.
I breathed shallowly as a child due to many rounds of bronchitis in which breathing deep caused physical pain. As a child I had to walk on eggshells in my family home and at Catholic school for being ✨too much ✨ and the first thing children do when they’re trying to keep themselves small or be invisible to avoid getting in trouble is to hold their breath. As I got older I smoked cigarettes for many years; essentially while I was growing up I had no conscious connection to my breath.
There were, however, many bright spots over the years of conscious breathing
When I was in high school I swam competitively and my strokes were connected to my breathing
After graduating college I decided to start running and learned more about my breath
I practiced Tai Chi in college and its a moving meditation connected to shifting energy with breath
Tattoos are painful and I have many, the only way to move through the pain is to control the breath
I have always loved to hike, and during hikes, I am always connected to breath
I have been a yogi since I was 20 and have always connected breath to movement
Fast forward to my early sound healing and energy session days, I was always connected to my breath as that is the only way to receive information from your client and then ground it out of your body - by breathing deeply and exhaling out your tailbone or soles of the feet - I call this breathing like a dragon because of the ferocity of the breath. When you hold space for people moving through deeply difficult emotions one of the things that is most helpful is to regulate your own breathing. We literally are tuning forks and respond to our environment - if someone is moving through extreme discoherence, the best thing you can do is offer powerful coherence by breathing and centering yourself.
One fateful night I was invited to collaborate on a Breathwork + Meditation + Sound Healing Session. I was invited to participate in the whole event and close the ceremony with a Crystal Bowl Journey. So I blindly attended my first ever Breathwork Session…
I am a deeply curious person by nature and love learning new things, but to be honest, when I entered this evening, my ego came too, as I had done so much energy and sound work for literally over a decade I thought ‘what could this possibly teach me,’ and boy I was in for a ride 🎡😂
The practitioner lead us through Dirga Pranayama (3 part breath) and then as the music increased in speed, so did our breath - and before I knew it my arms and legs had tetany and were curling in toward my torso. I was seeing a psychedelic kaleidoscope of color that started in my third eye and then burst forth surrounding my entire body and biofield, and then the colors filled up the environment around me, then the whole shala, and beyond.
I was tripping balls.
People started to cry which gave me permission to cry. I howled while some growled and then we all began to laugh - big belly, juicy laughs. Laughs like you haven’t laughed since childhood when you were carefree and didn’t understand war or taxes.
It was fucking delicious.
With tears pouring down all of our faces, an hour went by without us even realizing or understanding ✨time ✨ because we were so deep in our experience the only thing that existed was our experience.
That’s when I decided to study and become a Breathwork Facilitator
Breathwork deeply humbled me. It was a reminder that we can always find new depths to ourselves, learn new things, and access long-forgotten parts of ourselves.
The simplicity of the breath spoke to me as I am a person who appreciates efficiency; I carry my tuning forks around the world and they fit in my backpack.
The breath barely takes up any space at all, and yet it gives us permission to take up all the space we need.
When I look back I see that this isn’t necessarily the ~ modality I chose ~ it’s one that sat quietly and patiently in the background, staring at me and waiting for me to return the glance. It wove itself into my being before I knew it was happening - through swimming, hiking, yoga, meditation, sound healing sessions, and sitting with people in their most raw, cracked open, vulnerable moments.
For a long time, I had the understanding that the breath was a doorway to connect the mind / body, the physical / spiritual. My conscious breath is now an anchor that connects me to my inner strength and the present moment, it’s a bridge between my body and mind, and it’s a simple power move to bring chaos into clarity.
Breathwork + Guided Meditation
I offer Breathwork + Guided Meditation as they are so closely related (second cousins at the most); they support the cumulative understanding of each other. We can use the breath to help us deepen our meditation and through deepening our meditation we become more acquainted with the power of our breath.
Your breath provides a portal to your nervous system, your emotions and your truth. It helps you uncover the exact emotions, triggers, and feelings that you can use as trailheads to help you meditate.
We use breath as an entry point and through listening and allowing, we create space for whatever wants to shift. There is no ‘right way or wrong way’ - there is only the willingness to meet yourself. Breathwork + Guided Meditation can feel soft and subtle, or it can feel like the deepest unclenching you’ve ever experienced. It’s just about finding what is there, witnessing it, and constantly coming back to yourself and the present moment - which where all the magic happens.
I completed a formal Trauma-Aware Breathwork Certification in 2025, which gave an official stamp on an official paper for what I had already been living and practicing for years - I have always found real learning comes from being surrounded by it and living it.
This is your ✨official invitation ✨
Your breath is always there, waiting to meet you exactly where you are. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, curious, cracked open, or somewhere in between, this is your invitation to slow down, to feel and remember.
I can’t wait to guide you back to your breath.
Let’s breathe together. Book a session here.
xoxo
Meditating with Jhourney
I started working for Jhourney at a very interesting time in my life; one of my relationships was ending and I was feeling like you normally do at that tumultuous time - a little shaky, unsure of what’s to come, fearing the unknown and how it will come to pass, wondering if life will be kind to you and catch you - those sort of things. I had done a retreat with Jhourney and they just seemed to like me and they asked me to come work for them; it was such a lovely gift that they gave me - they gave me structure and hope - as well as the gift of realizing how easy meditation could be.
Jhourney is the San Francisco-based meditation company that teaches you how to teach yourself to get into jhana; which, as a teacher I absolutely love that framework because thats how I have always taught - giving people information but allowing them to make sense of it themselves, and then being there as a guide as they work through things. The people that are drawn to Jhourney are these incredibly brilliant minds searching for something to calm the noise that burns inside them. For me it was my ADHD - my thoughts were always so loud I never thought that I could quiet the noise - for other participants it was across the board - they knew they needed something, anxieties, destabilizing life events, ruminating thoughts, not trusting themselves, etc.
The way that Jhourney ‘hacks’ meditation was the exact way I needed to help me understand how to meditate - as you all know I come from a vast biological and spiritual background studying the body, the mind and the heart. Most, if not all, of my friends were meditators and yet, I could not figure it out. The abstract instructions I was always given was just to ‘sit and try to let go of my thoughts….’
…And, my friends, I cannot just ‘sit and try to let go of my thoughts….’
…Or at least I thought I couldn’t…
When I went to my Jhourney Retreat in May of 2024, Jhourney did something that I desperately needed: they flipped the archetype of meditation on its head for me and told me I could break the rules. As a rule-breaker myself, this advice brought me great joy. I had this idea in my head that I needed to sit perfectly still and not have one thought in my head - based on intro talks of TM and Vipassana I had been to years earlier. With the powers of scoliosis and ADHD combined these things are ✨almost✨ impossible!
Jhourney offered easy solutions: if sitting hurts - then lay down. If neither works - then go for a walk - just make it slow and intentional. They helped me reorient my goal - not to try to get rid of my thoughts but to work alongside them. As someone who is very visual I started being able to befriend my thoughts to conjure feelings and then use my thoughts to help me stay in that feeling, and then once everything felt stable I felt more collected rather than scattered and ✨over efforting✨.
What a concept!
Jhourney helps so many people not only find meditation but love it, sincerely. They make it easy to understand and they guide you the whole way. Since my time with Jhourney I have considered myself a proficient meditator and even completed a 12 day Vipassana retreat in May 2025! Younger Jess always had that as an intention for my life, and finally achieving my goal felt so blissful.
After my last in person retreat at the Blue Spirit Resort in Nosara, Costa Rica in July 2025 I knew it was time for a wacky road trip through Nicaragua and Honduras all the way up to surf in El Salvador. Luckily I was blessed with a co-teaching team of amazing individuals and together, Matt, Jack, Owen, Tracey, Hanna and I embarked on our quest. We had the absolute best time piecing together playlists, border crossings, various different buses, a handful of shuttles shuttles and some epic side quests.
I’m so grateful for the time I spent with Jhourney traveling through all throughout California and Costa Rica, teaching alongside people that will remain lifetime friends, and meeting epically cool people as participants - it’s a time I’ll never forget!
Xoxo
