Jessica Taylor of Boulder on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We recently had the chance to connect with Jessica Taylor and have shared our conversation below.

Jessica, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What makes you lose track of time—and find yourself again?
Communing with nature is definitely my answer. Whether I’m going on a hike, sitting by the creek near my home, putting my bare feet in the grass or touching a tree, nature is the immediate hack to grounding, regulation and remembering who I am.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello! My name is Jessica Taylor and I am an integrative healing guide. I serve as a self-love-based spiritual life coach, an intuitive Reiki Master, a Pilates and rehabilitation professional, a space holder and nervous system regulation advocate.

I was a professional dancer and choreographer for years in New York City and then in Denver, which gave me such a powerful outlet for my energy and passion with loads of experience and wisdom in running a non-profit dance company while navigating living in NYC and being a highly sensitive empath. I was also a practicing massage therapist at the time and started my Pilates journey, teaching in various studios in the Brooklyn/Manhattan area. When I moved to Denver I continued my dance career for several years before completely burning out. I had lost my passion for the business of dance and just wanted to be able to move through feeling, not through performance. So i sunk more into my Pilates practice and energy healing, and I opened a Pilates studio in Denver called The Ground, where I also created my own Pilates Teacher Training curriculum.

After 5 years with the studio I rebranded to a fully virtual practice in order to have more capacity for my life coaching career. My coaching gives me the ability to bring all of my skillsets into one space and to meet clients exactly where they are. My business, Balanced Consciousness, is called that because it is exactly what we work towards…balance. I believe the meaning of life is not about one huge achievement after the other, but about listening to the small whispers that our body., mind, heart and spirit gives us so that each day, we can learn tools that work specifically for us to help tip the scales back into alignment.

Whether it’s supporting business growth, fostering better relationships or deepening into our spirituality, the one unavoidable journey is the one of self love. No matter what my client comes to me for, we start there…and, like magic, it permeates into every aspect of our life. I support fellow highly sensitives, empaths and recovering perfectionists who want to avoid burnout while gained a deeper connection to themselves and something greater. Within the realms of spirituality, I firmly believe that it should be personal to us, and therefore must be customizable. So I hold space for those who desire it to deepen into a spiritual connection that works for THEM.

Currently I am loving my Equilibrium Community, which is a part self-love, part spiritual school and group of like-minded souls who connect 24/7 via our group chat and meet monthly in our live Zoom drop-ins where we regulate and grow together.

I am working on building my next fall cohort of The Ground Pilates Teacher Training (www.thegroundpilates.com) which will be hosted by the amazing Axis Pilates, with an early bird deadline of July 12 and general deadline of August 23rd. If interested, you can book a discovery call to get all of your questions answered.

I’m also pulling in my next Reiki Level I/II virtual training group, which is one of the most rewarding things I have the honor of doing.

Other then that, I am still open to 1:1 soul sessions for those who are ready to love themselves more and deepen into their desired embodiment.

Okay, so here’s a deep one: What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
I believed that being sensitive was weak or “too much”. I could feel people’s emotions, physical ailments and stagnant energies when they entered a room and thought they were mine. I was highly emotional and a deep feeler and was told many times “You’re too sensitive”. It took a long time and a belief in myself to dive into what it really meant. After years of regulating work, self-discovery and learning the clearing and grounding tools I needed, I see my sensitivity not only as a gift, but as my path. It is what guides me to help others and to be of service with true understanding and compassion. It supports not only my business but my day-to-day life, because I have done the work to know what being in my inner authority and inner calm feels like.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
Despite my many experiences and ambitions I have had, I have always possessed a deep wound of being seen for my true, authentic self and being accepted and chosen for it.

I don’t believe that we ever arrive or graduate. However, through lots of spiritual and self-love work, through finding the nervous system regulation practices that support me, doing deep subconscious work through loving affirmations to myself (I self-record and must believe them when I say them), to releasing stagnancies through energy work, physical movement, breath, humming and chanting I am still guiding myself into the belief that I can be fully me, no matter what. Mirror work is also very powerful, sitting with myself a bit each day and exchanging energy and loving words that I truly believe (this work must never be forced). Funnily enough, I did this exercise years ago with my dance company but didn’t do it consistently with myself at the time. I was wiser then I thought back then, but it was always outward to others, not inward.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
“Just Raise Your Vibration”.

This is not only not helpful, but it can actually harm if someone needs to process something uncomfortable. We are meant to honor all emotions and by doing so, we don’t have to dwell in them. If we just try to jack up our vibration, we are most likely either bypassing, escaping or just jarring our system with movement that is too fast. I prefer leaning into your home frequency…this is where you feel the most at peace, calm and authentic. I see in the spiritual world a lot of escapism and performing, and we are meant to live a human existence while embodying or true, spiritual essence. Spirituality isn’t floating along on a cloud…sometimes it’s messy, uncomfortable and pulls up a lot of truths that are hard to accept. But this work is so incredibly worth it when you see that it is just about you…not about how others do it or what others think.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. When do you feel most at peace?
I feel most at peace when I deeply love everything around me but simultaneously don’t care what they think or feel the need to explain anything to them. When i am so rooted in my authenticity and calm strength, time slows down to only the present moment, and I see everyone as myself and our deep interconnection.

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