BIO
Whether it is through coaching changemakers and visionaries 1:1 through life transitions, facilitating group retreats or plant medicine ceremonies for people of the global majority, or supporting organizations with how to integrate wellness into their everyday culture so that self-care becomes a collective effort, the mission remains the same: to envision ourselves as future ancestors so that we can create a story that leaves a legacy beyond this lifetime, and to leave this planet better than when we first arrived.
You can find me meditating with a green smoothie while reciting mantras in the morning, and practicing exotic floor work with a bag of plantain chips over spiritual trap music in the evening as a part of my own wellness rituals. (It’s been said at my workshops and retreats that I’d also make an incredible DJ.) I love exploring the complexities of life and spirituality, and invite you to do the same!
Check out my Tedx talk, “How to Connect with Your Ancestors,”
listen to my weekly(ish) podcast at yourstorymedicine.com,
or see glimmers of my June-iverse on instagram @jumakae for some inspiration.
Some of my friends, mentors, elders,
and ancestors I give credit to include
(but are not limited to):
- Lisa Nichols of Motivating the Masses
- Spring Washam of Lotus Vine Journey
- Montez Free Woman of Closer to Fine Farm
- Green Tara, Saraswati, Ixchel, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman
Media Features
Podcast:
Virtual and Spoken Word:
Instagram:
Trainings/
Certifications
COACHING + WELLNESS:
🌱 Coaching for Transformation: Certified Professional Life Coach (Leadership that Works)
🌱 Trauma Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation with Atira Tan
🌱 The Resilience Toolkit: Simple Tools for Stress Relief (Lumos Transforms)
🌱 Generative Somatics + Embodied Liberation (5-Day Intensive LA Training)
🌱Nonviolent Communication Techniques (Sacred Roots)
🌱 From Empathic Pain to Intuitive Power (Innerlight Sanctuary)
🌱 Restorative Justice Practices (California Conference for Equality and Justice)
🌱 Masters in Transformational Training (Basics & Advanced)
🌱 Transformative Justice Workshop Facilitator (Creative Interventions)
🌱 Trauma informed Yoga Facilitator (Community Connection)
🌱 200-hr Yoga Teaching Certification (Cloud 9 Yoga)
🌱 Arts and Healing Workshop Facilitator (A Window Between Worlds)
LEADERSHIP + ADVOCACY + ARTS
🌱 Arts Advocacy Leader: Cultural Policy Track (Arts4LA)
🌱 65-hour state certified in domestic violence + sexual assault advocate (Peace Over Violence)
🌱 Leadership and Advocacy Training: Education Track (SEARAC)
🌱 Long Beach Rising: Community Organizer (Building Healthy Communities)
🌱 Liberation Arts/Theater of the Oppressed with Brent Blair (USC)
🌱 Community-Collaborative Theater (Cornerstone Theater Company)
🌱 Meisner Acting Techniques, Intro + Advanced Improv, Standup Comedy (My Acting Studio)
🌱 Playback Theater Techniques with Dr. Joyce Lu
SPEAKING + ENTREPRENEURSHIP
🌱 Speakers Mastermind with Lisa Nichols of Motivating the Masses
🌱 Evercoach Mindvalley Summit for Professional Coaches
🌱 Trauma of Money
🌱 Live Big: The Entrepreneur's Guide Training by Ajit Nawalkha
🌱 The Business Lounge & Accelerator Program with Kimberly Ann Jiminez
🌱 Course from Scratch by Danielle Leslie
🌱 Build a Real Business Mastermind with Coach Pony
🌱 Muse Business Academy with Shereen Sun of Radiant Wildheart
🌱 Melissa Ruiz
🌱 Geeta Nadkharni
🌱 Entrepreneurial Training Program at PACE Los Angeles' Women's Business Center
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
🌱 Long Beach Doulas of Color full-spectrum support
🌱 Dive into Death Course with Mary Magdelena and Aman Cara (Death Doulas)
🌱 Reiki Level I & II w/ Olga Montes of Golden Sol Yoga & Wellness Center
🌱 Rebozo & Sobadas womb self-care w/ Indigemama
🌱 Traditional Thai abdominal massage & womblifting in Thailand w/ Homprang
🌱 Spiritual Womb Healing & Yoni steaming junior apprentice w/ Keli Garza of Steamy Chick & Marcia Lopez of Women's True Healing
🌱 Pole and aerial arts dance intern for sensual healing at Fembody Fitness
🌱 Plant Meditation Mondays w/ Julie James at Green Herbal Wisdom Studies
EDUCATION
BA Communication Studies, Theater Arts (cum laude) from California State University of Long Beach 2010
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