Trauma-related patterns may show up in many ways, whether in physical pain or mysterious health symptoms, gynecological or sexual issues, exhaustion, chronic fatigue, fear of intimacy and/or repeated dysfunctional romantic relationships, anxiety, depression, insomnia, mood disorders, challenges with money, "hypersensitivity," constant feelings of internal conflict, prejudices or triggers that don't make logical sense -- or some combination of those, and more.

If you don't recall a particular trauma or major emotional challenge from your own lifetime, but still feel burdened by these issues, or trapped in inner conflict, there may be inherited traumas from ancestors to address as well. Especially for women, People of Color, and any other marginalized population that has had to contend with the ongoing stress of systemic discrimination, which often leads to trauma response patterns.

Unfortunately, the typical solutions to each of these challenges, while sometimes temporarily helpful, still don't address how painful experiences (including daily exposure to systemic racism and/or misogyny) and their subsequent patterns have been stored in the body -- nor do they offer a clear, efficient framework for transforming them, much less for moving beyond them into truly thriving, such that we can co-create a more connected, peaceful, empowering world.

Luckily, here's some good news...

The material and practices covered in this course are designed to give you the life-changing skills, information, practical tools, and compassionate, on-going community of support that you need to cultivate the thriving, loving, mutually nourishing relationships you want to have -- with your own body-mind-spirit, with your loved ones, with your larger community, and with your true calling in the world! 

~ Do you have a hard time saying "No" and setting clear boundaries, and instead tend to prioritize taking care of others' needs at the expense of your own?

~ Have you experienced one disappointing relationship after another -- and still crave deep connection?

~ Are you easily overwhelmed, or have you often been told you're "hypersensitive" or you "over-react" to seemingly small things in daily life?

~ Do you feel stuck in wanting to grow your business or career in ways that feel deeply nourishing to you and bring your true gifts to the world -- but don't know what's holding you back from actualizing your full creative potential?

~ If you’re a mom, were you shocked by how hard birth, breastfeeding, and/or parenting have been for you? Are you secretly worried that you’re passing on your old trauma-patterns to your kids, even though you’ve done so much of your own healing work already -- and you’re doing the very best you can?

~ Or, if you want to get pregnant (again or for the first time), are you afraid of what birth and parenting might bring up for you? Do you want to clear lingering old patterns before conceiving, so you can have the best possible pregnancy, birth, and gentle transition into the next phase of family life?

~ Are you afraid of deep intimacy, or of living fully into your own true potential, such that you feel held back from creating the life, relationships, or impact you want?

~ Have you been in therapy for years and feel like you’ve done so much healing work, but you still haven’t moved through deep-seated feelings of shame, guilt, anger, resentment, grief, not being good enough, or not feeling worthy to receive love or abundance?

Do you feel like no matter what you do, you'll never overcome your past trauma?

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If any of those sound like you, I'm sending deep, gentle hugs and courage to you!

It's a tender place to be.

I've been there too -- it was exhausting and frustrating, and zapped so much of my energy away from what I truly wanted to be doing, feeling, offering, Being, and experiencing in my life!

And, I discovered that none of those are the real problem, they're just symptoms of the deeper root.

So what's the real issue??

The real issue is that trauma patterns take us out of our bodies -- and out of our own true power.

Our spirit dissociates and doesn’t feel safe being in a body that can have such painful experiences. That lack of full Presence within ourselves makes it much more challenging to shift old patterns held in the body and psyche -- and also makes it much more likely to continue to play out those old patterns again and again, such that old systems and tendencies get perpetuated.

So, how do we address that?

The most deeply effective way to transform trauma stored at the cellular level (which is where we need to overcome all these patterns), involves coming back into our Sacred Embodiment, resting in our Beingness, Loving all that we are, fully inhabiting our true Power Within, and inviting the sovereignty of our Spirit to reclaim our bodies as the potent vessels of transformation and creative energy that they are!

This 12-week Foundational Course provides the groundwork of Daoist Sacred Embodiment Practices, so you can clear old trauma-related patterns, heal your nervous system, and cultivate the radiant vitality you want, to be able to live your life to the fullest!

This course is designed to help you embody your own natural power and innate wisdom more deeply, consciously, and lovingly.

Our monthly group video calls and the entire online course are available to you for LIFETIME ACCESS, to support your integration of the material (which will evolve as you do!), with direct contact points to be sure all of your questions are answered! 

These time-tested, embodied spiritual skills will help you create new neural networks & positive energetic pathways in yourself, so you can respond to all that arises in life with greater ease, grace, empowered self-awareness, compassion, and emotional freedom!

This course addresses issues ranging from female hormonal imbalances to clearing trauma from sexual abuse and inherited patterns of disharmony, whether related to our personal ancestral lineage or to marginalization by the larger culture. We explore the emotional and spiritual energetics that contribute to physical dis-ease and nervous system stress responses, through experiential Daoist practices, including:

~ Guided Meditations, Visualizations, Healing Sounds & Breathwork

~ Qi Gong & Creative Movement to nourish Sacred Embodiment, Sexual Vitality & Emotional Transformation 

~ Writing Exercises to tune into embodied responses & cultivate conscious listening to Inner Wisdom

~ Microcosmic Orbit Qi Gong & Meditation Practice

~ Abdominal & Breast Self-Massage with Heart-Opening Practices

~ Jade Egg Yoni (Vaginal) Exercises, using either a physical or energetic jade or crystal egg

(NOTE: some students choose not to participate in the Jade Egg parts of the course, and still get SO MUCH benefit from all the other practices we do! Don't let this aspect scare you away! :)

The online version of this course offers a combination of 12 pre-recorded class modules and monthly LIVE video Q&A calls (beginning with a group meditation practice), and includes downloadable video, audio, and PDF guides for practices to serve you for a lifetime!

(Bonus: Kajabi now has a mobile app that makes all the content even easier to access!)

All techniques are taught fully clothed, honoring your own comfort level, and can be tailored easily to suit all ages and abilities. Our online forum (within the course site) is a safe, sacred, confidential, compassionate, BBIPOC- & LGBTQ-inclusive community.

*Please note that most of the jade egg exercises are NOT considered suitable during pregnancy -- although they're excellent in the pre-conception and postpartum phases, as well as in healing from pregnancy loss. And, they are NOT a mandatory part of this course to get immense benefit from all the other teachings and practices shared!

*Please note that all of these practices can be utilized and found to be deeply healing, even if you no longer have a uterus, ovaries, and/or breasts! We'll be working with energetic and emotional patterns as much as with the physical.

Add-on options for private coaching and healing sessions with Jem are also available, and are highly recommended for severe trauma and/or for chronic or severe physical symptoms, so we can work more closely together to personalize your cultivation practice (and, if appropriate, to utilize other healing modalities) to support your deepest well-being. (Click on the highlighted words above to link to pages with more information.)

❣️ Deepen embodied awareness of the nervous system, so it can heal and our stress responses can become more conscious rather than reactive

❣️ Clear stagnant, unresolved emotions, trauma & ancestral issues held in the body & womb

❣️ Cleanse residual negativity from adverse physical, sexual, or emotional experiences

❣️ Revitalize your Life Force Energy, so you can have the vitality you need to nourish your relationships and bring your true gifts to the world

❣️ Support female hormone balance and overall health (at any stage of life!) 

❣️ Reduce painful periods, breast tenderness & menopausal complaints

❣️ Strengthen the pelvic floor to reduce the likelihood of incontinence or prolapse 

❣️ Increase sexual pleasure by promoting appropriate fluid production & sexual internal awareness

❣️ Improve loving energy flow between the Heart and Sexual Center

❣️ Connect with & express your innate, creative, authentic Essence

❣️ Cultivate self-love, sensual vitality & healthy body confidence

❣️ Listen deeply to your body’s innate wisdom and connection to Source 

❣️ Feel emotional freedom in how you respond to the world

❣️ Reclaim the true power of your sacred embodiment

❣️12 Modules of video classes, covering Qi Gong movement practices, essential Daoist theory, relevant Chinese medical physiology & emotional energetics, and embodied trauma theory -- all to help you learn to tap into & move your own energy more skillfully and compassionately!

❣️Downloadable audio meditations and video recordings of Qi Gong, self-massage, and Sexual Cultivation practices, for specific trauma-healing, increased energy, & cultivating deeper internal awareness to improve physical & emotional health, including: 

Spontaneous Qi Gong for moving emotional energy immediately

Healing Tao 5 Animals Qigong Form with Healing Sounds for transforming emotions

Kidney Breathing grounding & nourishing practice to recharge your Source Energy

Deep Earth Pulsing Qigong for grounding and transforming energies that tend to rise upward (such as anxiety & overthinking), while also balancing the left & right sides

Micro- & Macrocosmic Orbit Qi Gong to activate the internal orbit meditation practice

Qigong to open to your Infinite Essence & to reactivate creative, playful, curious self-exploration

Ocean Breathing, Bone Breathing, Bone Beating, Counterforce Breathing & Belt Channel Breathing Qigong forms -- to strengthen your qi field and feel more rooted in your embodied power

Breathwork to open specific channels & areas of the body, to reconnect with Source Energy

Exercises to engage with Discomfort & invite transformation from a place of Power Within -- because only by "getting better at feeling" can we truly begin to "feel better"!

Exercises to transform limiting beliefs and create new beliefs rooted in your Power Center

Resting in Worthiness & Empowering Radiance meditations & embodied practices

Swimming Dragon qigong form for sensual vitality & metabolic balance

Breast Self-Massage to open the Heart & clear emotions held in the chest

Abdominal Self-Massage to open the Wind Gates, connect with Source Energy, clear emotions held in the belly, and reconnect the Heart & Womb

Jade Egg Meditations & Womb-Healing Exercises to clear emotions, ancestral baggage, and trauma-patterns held in the sexual center 

❣️Lifetime membership to join our monthly video Q&A coaching calls (all with replays) -- so YOUR personal questions about these practices get answered!

❣️PDF handouts for the practices covered 

❣️Weekly Journal Prompts to guide your writing practice to come to inner clarity

❣️Intention setting guides & practices for corresponding Moon Phases and Menstrual Phases

❣️Priority scheduling for one-on-one coaching and healing sessions with Jem (in-person or via Zoom video call)

❣️Priority and discounted registration for upcoming in-person workshops and retreats

❣️Lifetime unlimited access to all of this material, to return to as often as needed!

My vision is to co-create a world in which all people have the support we need to transform sexual and ancestral trauma, so we can live in the radiant Wholeness of our sacred embodiment, and bring our unique gifts to the world, empowered by Love from Within. Because when we deeply love, listen to, and care for ourselves, fulfilling our mission and purpose in the world becomes sustainable, and empowers others to live in alignment with their Hearts, Minds, and Essences, too. The more sustainably well-nourished our individual lives become, the easier it is to co-create families and communities in which we all can thrive with freedom, safety, and mutual respect!

I am committed to eradicating the stigma and shame of sexual trauma, and to walking the path of healing, spiritual awakening, and self-actualization with women who are ready to reclaim their full vitality, activate their Essence, and live in their empowered, authentic Wholeness.