Jenna Herbst

I have been on a life-long journey of healing, and study of both the healing and the awakening journey. I received my Masters of Divinity in 2006 from a Buddhist university (Naropa). I studied meditation for many years and received a certificate in mindfulness instruction and working with difficult states, also going on many silent retreats, and several month-long meditation retreats. I studied with many nondual teachers, including Adyashanti. I learned techniques such as Alchemy from Cindy Teevans. I learned somatic meditation, and integrative techniques to slowly heal trauma in the nervous system, as well as untie the tangles of the mind. I have a particular interest in early childhood attachment and and our sensitive relationship to self and other, as, in my experience this is often in the heart of our confusion and pain. Even obsessive thinking, OCD, and PTSD can, in part, have their roots in our need to heal our attachment. I worked for six years with veterans with PTSD. I am currently studying somatic experiencing to enhance my understanding of trauma. I also discovered and practice an energy healing technique called Circles of Enrichment, which helps the body re-learn its most important function of the Yin principle, which allows the collapse and rejuvination of our system. I work with people to bring home all the parts of themselves into loving awareness, and heal and resolve trauma, balancing our system and making us more resilient. It is my joy to help others recover their birthright of joyful living. My own journey of deep healing informs my practice with people, and has awakened a deep compassion for our humanness, our sensitivity, and our ability to leave ourselves, as well as our innate knowing and intuition about how to return. I believe everyone can heal, and our knowing of this path is innate, and cannot be taken away. For those interested in the integration of the awakening process with the healing process, I also work with people whose awakening journey has led them to unwind kundalini and other experiential knowing. I'm also an artist and musician, and locally teach in both of those arenas.