Meet Jenn

Hi! I’m Jenn, and I am so deeply honored you are here. My life path has led me to create a space for folks just like you to connect and receive. I am passionate about supporting my community as they navigate life, search for meaning, and liberate themselves from the limiting beliefs that get in the way of living their most authentic, joyful, and creative lives.

In 2019, I was initiated into Traditional Mazatec Medicine through fate and curiosity. I traveled to Oaxaca in search of historical understanding, and instead found god, source, unconditional love…whatever you want to call it. In the most profound ceremony I have yet to experience, I received deep healing and knew it meant something for the greater context of my life. I spent the next 6 years healing, getting sober, and clearing my vessel as I learned the language of Mama Earth. My spirituality transformed from a collection of ideas and inklings, to a fully embodied relationship with the animate world around me.

In 2025, I returned to the small Oaxacan town and entered into 1:1 apprenticeship with Mazatec curandera and elder, La Jefecita Panchita. She has helped me to better understand my don, or healing gift from my ancestors, and how to share the medicine with my community. It is an immense privilege and a reality beyond my wildest dreams to carry this lineage of medicine.

In addition to TMM, I am a skilled mentor in spiritual and earthly connection, shadow work, and being a human mammal in the Anthropocene. I believe that you need to let it all belong (the nasty, the ugly, the uncomfortable) in order to let it rot into fertile soil for your inner garden to bloom. I have formal and informal training in psychology, mentoring, yoga and meditation, trauma-informed practices, and nervous-system-friendly approaches to learning, growth, and healing.

At my core, I am a life-long learner. In addition to my on-going apprenticeship with Panchita, I am enrolled in an Auyerveda Coaching Certification program. My early career was in teaching, with specialties in environmental education, nature connection, DEIB work, and social/emotional learning.

My own healing journey has been the most transformative through somatic and nervous-system regulation practices. The clearing of my vessel has allowed me to listen deeply and be guided by source. I make meaning through archetypes and myth, through metaphor and prose. I hold up the sacred mirror with compassion and radical acceptance. I know that the answer to many, if not all, of life’s quandaries can be found in true community, authentic connection, and a silly sense of humor. I find my connection to the unseen realms in the seemingly mundane, and there is no greater joy in helping others do the same.

If you’re looking for greater self-acceptance, -forgiveness, and -love; if you’re longing for a connection to the Earth that transcends capitalism, patriarchy, and supremacy; if you’re searching for greater meaning and sense of belonging; if you’re simply feeling a pull and not sure why; I’m your girl. Let’s explore the unseen together.

Rot on,

Jenn

on reciprocity…

In effort to honor the Mazatec lineage and original stewards of so-called Southern California, Compost Collective makes monthly and annual monetary offerings to the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation, the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy, and various Mazatec community and cultural organizations.

Meet the Medicine

Mazatec Traditional Medicine is, at its core, magic. It works with and through the land, with the elements collaborating to manifest a medicine that meets the moment. The level of intelligence is beyond human logic, though it can be felt and understood on a subconscious level.

The Mazatec people of Northern Oaxaca are authentically attuned to the language of the land, and the mountains themselves have a healing gift. To know this medicine is to know a higher power. To understand the interdependence of the beings of the region is to understand the interdependence of true community.

And to connect with the unseen elements of the medicine is to connect with the unseen elements in yourself.

Come and meet the magic.