About Me
Hello! I come to this work of pet sitting, permaculture gardening, and plant medicine journeying through my own pathway of healing, remembering and unfolding into possibilities different than those encouraged by colonial taker ways of thinking and behaving. You are welcome to read my blogs or resources related to personal, professional and spiritual navigation of medicine space if you would like to know more about some of my processes as well as experiences you may have or relate to alongside my support.
Jai is my name and is a portion of my given birth name. Choosing Jai flowed. Jai also happens to mean “yes”, “victory”, and/or “celebration” in Sanskrit—all aspects of potential experiences that I hope we get to engage while journeying together.
I have created the services you see headlined based on my values and desire to nurture plants, animals, you, the planet and myself. My personal experiences with medicines help propel me as they ask me to know and share my cares with others. As a trans nuerowild healer and tender (in perpetual training), I hope to support your moment to moment inner nature and to tend to your domestic or wild animals and the land you inhabit. I am based out of what is colonized as Colorado on land of the Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne people and I regularly grieve this and engage questions of positionality and reparations. I also travel and live with land/camp, garden and tend the earth or do home and pet care.
Who I Support
With medicine journeying I work with individual adults ages 21 and older and especially enjoy working with queer and nueroemergent people, folks interested in somatic energy work and interconnection, those at a standstill with other forms of care, introverts and highly sensitive people, and folks who know themselves and need a safe container to let their supported essence and experiences unveil.
With gardening and animal care I enjoy supporting those who appreciate looking into land and animals and life in general from a regenerative perspective that considers new ways of living and/or ones that once were. I like to support embracing sustainable practices. I enjoy being outside and moving my body while learning and growing both plants and myself. I also love giving your furry ones affection and taking care of their needs.
For garden, animal, and journey google reviews please type “Journey With Jai” into your google search. Some journey testimonials are also here (click here).
My Why
I support people connecting to their internal landscape and the natural world in order to expand individual and cultural paradigms. I want each of us to remember how to really feel, see, wonder and connect. Journeying and gardening are practices that feel innate and ever-evolving to me and continue to lend perspective on who and how I am in relationship to humans, plants, animals, our planet, and the universe. Check out my most recent interview with Bold Journey Magazine where I discuss a bit about what I see as my purpose.
Education
Currently I am engaging Evolutionary Herbalism’s herbal alchemy program so as to gradually work with a variety of plants more and more. Some of my training, education, and work includes The Psychedelic Sitter School, mentorship with the Psychedelic Introvert, BA in both Psychology and Gender Studies at The University of Utah, Valley Behavioral Health work with people with SPMI, Embodylab’s Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy program, YTT with Yoga Assets, Mindfulness and Vipassana Meditation Courses and a year of Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University and student centers, Soul Dimension’s Breathwork, NOLS Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness Therapy Guiding at RedCliff Ascent, World-Wide Organic Farming with Shumei, Earth Activist Permaculture Designing, gardening with The Living Systems Institute, and engaging Denver Dog Hikers and Rover. I am happy to be transparent about my capacities and services. Check out my profiles on Psychable and Frshmind. Check out my most recent interview with Bold Journey Magazine.
All photos by Jai Reese
