Meet the Medicine

Traditional Mazatec Medicine is an indigenous healing modality of Northern Oaxaca rooted in shamanic practices and Earth medicine. It aims to balance one’s energetic field in order to restore balance to one’s physical body and life in general.

Through cleansing rituals, meditation, and Earth medicine, the a TMM practitioner or curandera works in relationship with you and the unseen realms to restore balance and bring about greater harmony in the mind, body, and spirit. TMM is both holistic and spiritual. Each plant or being is respected as an individual spirit rather than a tool or chemical working solely in the physical realm. Your practitioner will help you to build your relationship with the medicine so that you may live a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Benefits of TMM often include:

  • Recovery

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Grief and loss

  • Post-traumatic distress

  • Heartache and betrayal

  • Insomnia

  • Emotional “susto” (spiritual shock/fear that lodges in the body)

  • Soul fragmentation from trauma or violence

  • Unleashing creativity

  • Energetic blockages

  • Negative spiritual attachments

  • Curse or “mal de ojo” (evil eye)

  • Loss of life force after trauma

  • Closing portals or energetic openings

  • Clearing ancestral or family burdens

  • Reconnecting with personal destiny or purpose

  • Releasing shame

  • Trauma release/healing

  • Spiritual initiation

  • Retrieving soul fragments

  • Healing interpersonal or family conflict

  • Understanding the root of illness, not just symptoms

  • Resolving family tension, conflict, betrayal

  • Healing after divorce or abandonment

  • Clearing jealousy, envy, gossip, energetic attacks

  • Protection for travel or big life transitions

  • Intuition, heart connection, energetic congruence

  • Self-acceptance, self-love

  • Inner-child, -teen healing

  • Overall greater spiritual connection and sense of cosmic belonging

Meet Jenn

Jenn is devoted to guiding others toward beauty, softness, and connection with the sacred. With tenderness and discernment, she helps clients return to their inner wisdom, open to self-love, and attune to the quiet magic woven through their lives.

Jenn’s path began in 2019, when she was initiated into Traditional Mazatec Medicine in the mountains of Oaxaca, a profound encounter that reshaped her understanding of healing and divinity. She has since apprenticed under La Jefecita Panchita, a revered Mazatec curandera and elder, who entrusted her to carry this rare and ancient lineage forward.

Her work blends shamanic practices and Earth medicine with training in Ayurveda, coaching and mentoring, psychology, yoga, meditation, and trauma-informed approaches. Drawing from her roots as an educator of science, environmental education, and nature connection, Jenn creates spaces of safety and transformation where clients can release the past, restore balance to the nervous system, and remember their place within the living Earth.

Above all, Jenn is a devoted student of life, offering her work as an invitation to soften, to listen, and to embrace the mysteries of this one precious life.

  • Testimonials

    “Jenn has a tremendous capacity to hold space for transformation. She has a warmth and connectedness that transcends walls and reservations. I trust her implicitly. I have so much respect for her dedication to holding true to the lineage she was adopted into. As an “ethnic outsider” to an indigenous medicine, she is committed to her teachings with a humble gratitude that emanates all she does. To witness her childlike love and passion for the magic of plant medicine merge with a wisdom and union of ancestral energy beyond her years is a privilege to experience.

    Her practice of authenticity and humility has created space for me to release the masks that hold me back.

    I am so very grateful for her practice and commitment to her teacher’s lineage that she has brought back with her.”

    -Elaina

  • "Jenn is the real deal! For years now, her intuitive insights have helped guide me through some of the heaviest and most confusing parts of my life. She's able to reflect, interpret, and communicate with deep wisdom- so much so that I've gotten chills many times."

    -Miguel R.

  • "Jenn is a highly intuitive soul who has been mentoring me and guiding me through many different stages of life. She has guided me back home to myself as a wife and mother. The softness, and truth Jenn sees in me has helped me come to terms with so many challenging aspects of my life with grace and ease. To have someone like Jenn in my world has both rooted and freed me to fully accept myself and continue my work with myself."

    -Noelle G.

  • "Jenn has a gift for meeting you exactly where you are, offering guidance and support with an uncanny ability to see straight to the heart of things. Her words land like medicine-- honest, clear, and full of love. I always walk away feeling steadier, braver and more hopeful."

    -Nia

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.