We were lucky to catch up with Jai Reese recently and have shared our conversation below.
Jai, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
Over the years I found (and continue to find) my purpose by engaging medicines such as cannabis and psilocybin-containing mushrooms in intentional ritualistic ways. As therapy and medicines supported me in moving through childhood hardship and embracing my queer, spiritual, autistic nuerowildness I realized I wanted to share that support with others through processes of mutual healing, remembering, and creating. I offer people safe and compassionate space for embracing themselves and potentials of the universe by re-connecting to nature and ourselves as such. Permaculture gardening, sober and psychedelic medicine journeys, and caring for animals around me have all been integral aspects of embodiment for me thus I am grateful to get to share my offerings with others.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I reside in Colorado and also travel to hold space for individuals desiring to engage sober and psychedelic journeying as a support to new understandings and releasing old ways of being. Depending on needs, I offer journeying guidance in your home, online, or in a cozy carriage room near Denver on the land of Arapohoe people. Preparation and Integration are important aspects of journeying where we can navigate where you have been and are hoping to go. Microdosing support is encouraging to many people too and I am happy to offer that. I love opening folks to new ways of thinking and being so as to support creating honest and healthy personal and collective paradigms of engagement.
I also provide collaborative gardening care. I love to get my hands in the earth and connect to plants as food, herbal medicine, and psychedelic medicine. I provide pet care as well and see animals, birds and insects as allies to journeying, gardening, and my own and the planet’s health and well-being. I love that I get to braid these three offerings of journeying, gardening, and pet support. My intention in the work I do is to provide compassionate and clear space for nourishing connection to oneself and all beings alongside the supportive energies of earth and higher-potential.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Understanding the wisdom of my own body and following that has been hugely important in working with difficult historical life terrains and also opening to possibilities around the work I offer. Engaging supports such as somatic therapy, medicines, ecstatic dance, authentic movement, yoga or stretching, and breath-work are recommendations I have for cultivating deeper connection to one’s body and the insights and information stored there. Being present to a range of energies, sensations, and feelings in the body can ground us into realities that are not solely mental as we navigate large and small decisions, needs, and feels. Following actions that bring a sense of internal joy or congruence as well as leaning into blocks and challenging emotions can bring forward self-understanding and alignment in one’s thoughts, words, relationships, and unique work or place in the world.
How can folks who want to work with you connect?
I would enjoy additional teammates to bounce journey space experiences and processes off of in a container that supports journeyer confidentiality. I would also enjoy musicians and sound healers who would like to support journeyers and cultivate new resonance in folk’s systems and bodies with sound. And lastly, I would appreciate co-facilitating a group space for journeyers of all backgrounds and especially those who are queer or neurodivergent.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.journeywithjai.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/journey.with.jai/
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