Jessica is a writer, leader and meditation teacher from New Jersey. Drawing from over two decades of personal work and training, Jessica’s guidance is well-honed, far-reaching and especially helpful for those looking to make peace with the past, grief and death. Her other passion and skill is helping people ignite a transformation in their health. A long-time student of the Dharma, Jessica can be found happily chanting in India, playing and selling Full Moon singing bowls from Nepal and tinkering with sage and raspberries in the garden. An avid reader and lover of books, Red Hot Steel: Love Behind Bars is her first book. She is currently working on her second book.
Trained in sound therapy by Master Healer Santa Ratna Shakya as a lead apprentice since 2007. She is also a specialized distributor of Santa’s Full Moon singing bowls.
Her experience includes working with death, stress, anxiety, grief, chronic illness, depression and trauma, individuals or groups. She also specializes in helping highly empathic people. Jessica works in-person, over the phone or hand-written letters.
My Path To Meditation
Shortly after September 11th, along with shock, fear and grief, I had a strong spontaneous experience that felt like a spiritual opening. Things inside me became very clear and still. I had extraordinary energy and emotion, which felt to me much like standing in a waterfall. I was altered in a way that I could not define. Though I felt wonderful and calm, with perception that felt more real than before, my family was unsettled by the abrupt changes in me. The truth was, I didn’t know how to work with the phenomenal energy I was feeling. I had no ability to hold this new perspective on life and myself.
Fortunately, I met with a therapist who calmly suggested that I was possibly experiencing what is called a “spiritual emergence.” This was a great relief to me, and still I eventually wound up in a hospital under heavy medication.
While recognizing that medication is the right thing for some people in some circumstances, I knew it wasn’t right for me. Instead I discovered the practice of meditation. Ever since, I have found it to be a sound and practical way to work with the range of human emotions, stress, anxiety, high energy and the other common modern afflictions. I have never been back on medication or hospitalized again and now know how to handle the difficulties of life with more wisdom and ease.
This personal experience and all of my meditation training has moved me to work with others who also want peace, an antidote to stress and alternatives to drugs, alcohol and medication. My approach is warm, accessible and non-judgmental — perfect for those who have never meditated before, those who want to learn more, and for those who think they can’t.
I look forward to sharing what I have learned with you.