Hi, I’m Jenna. I’m so glad you are here. Healing is not always easy, but it’s always possible. We are malleable, changeable beings, with an essence, leading us in the right direction, regardless of our past experiences, or even our present experience. We actually have inner knowing that can lead us to what we need, and sometimes we need support to trust and even sense it.

I consider myself to be a practical, real-world mystic and healer, and I believe we are all this, with our particular gifts forged in our particular way of being and our experiences, our lineage and more. I want to support you in being the fullness of what you are, and to unleash and unwind your gifts into this world, and to feel the freedom that you are meant to feel. So often we feel we are living a partial life, and this is unnecessary. We have what we need to be fully alive.

I work with people one on one and in groups. I am very curious and have a deep faith and knowing that all our layers are accessible to us, and that they are waiting for us to know, see, and feel them. I believe this to be the path to relax into our lives in a a reunion of sorts with the soul of what we are seeking.

Here is a bio so you can know a little more about me:

Jenna Herbst has a Masters of Divinity from the Naropa University, which she initially pursued in order to work in hospice, where she had volunteered for several years. She has practiced meditation and studied with many different teachers since 1996, and became a certified mindfulness instructor, trained in working with mental health issues and extreme states, in 2006. After graduate school, she spent six years working with veterans experiencing PTSD in a full time position. After this, she took a year and half and did an extended vision quest, where she traveled with few possessions, and did deep reflection. She had done many meditation retreats before, but this was different, it was not only an integration process of awakenings and realizations, but also a shedding of certain kinds of ancestral patterning. She practiced moving from inner knowing and guidance, and let go of many layers of distrust and confusion, and familial lineage belief/thought that would have her giving allegiance to the authority of outside influences. She spent many months living in a tent, and moved around meeting people who would serve to teach her many things. Next, she worked for hospice as a chaplain, being with people in the dying process and working with families. Subsequently, she was drawn to deepen her healing path within her body and psyche, and attend further to the trauma in her history, she intuitively found herself living at a retreat center in Tennessee, and then Asheville, NC, where she met more teachers who would help her deepen and heal. She also discovered her love of painting, which surprisingly drew her down toward the earth, toward her true self, and much deeper into the Earth. Painting has served to teach her many things, including even more listening and a healthy and thorough inhabiting of the body. Jenna continues to deepen in this healing path, a never-ending discovery of how healing comes about in each moment of love and the creative clarity of the moment at hand. Jenna is committed to helping others to heal and shed suffering and undo trauma, to deeply connect with their incarnated body, to unwind the nervous system step by step with sensitivity, to learn to speak and know their limitations as a rooted divine acknowledgement of truth, to listen deeply to their own knowing, and to move from knowing rather than thinking, as well as relate and know every experience as being in service to their own inner freedom and and mirror of their own potential. She trusts each person has everything they need within them, since their true nature is wholeness, and every experience is a pointer leading us back to this. Jenna is particularly interested in issues of stuck trauma - both personal, and ancestral, childhood attachment, awakening, nervous system and emotional regulation and healing, and body awareness/body listening and somatic practices as instruments of this, since this has been her own path, and she wishes to share all she has learned to help others discover their freedom.

In addition to her coaching, Jenna discovered an energy work practice called Circles of Enrichment ™ which reminds the body of the natural cycles of replenishment, and serves to heal and balance the energies for supportive healing.  

Here are some of the teachers Jenna has studied with, and trainings she has done, as well as self-study and personal areas of interest:

Somatic Experiencing (Current)

Masters of Divinity from Naropa University 2006

Bachelors in Psychology from University of Colorado 2002

Shinzen Young - Vipassana meditation retreats and mindfulness training

Dr. Roger Dorris - Group process

Trained in Family Constellation

Dr. Reggie A. Ray - Meditation and somatic meditation, 3 month-long Dathuns (Tibetan meditation retreats)

Mindfulness Meditation Instructor Training at Naropa University, including working with extreme states

Two units of CPE, Clinical Pastoral Education, with Centered Life

Worked with veterans for 6 years

Worked as a hospice chaplain for 3 years

Worked as a hospice volunteer for 3 years

Trauma informed case management Coalition for the Homeless, Denver

Worked as a community organizer, leading community process groups, which were cross - cultural and intersectional

Retreats with Adyashanti and other nondual teachers

Cindy Teevens Alchemy Process

Study of early childhood attachment and development

Over 20 years of experience counseling