Jaymi Jai
Re-membering the art of being human.
Your mask, and the Wild beneath it, are welcome here.
About
I walk with the human animal who is re-membering the art of being human in a world that tempered your fire and taught you to silence the wisdom of your body.I don’t come to this work with a formula, because you’re not a problem to be fixed. Your vision, strong will and unapologetic aliveness are an answer to the heart’s crisis of meaning.I won’t pretend to have all the answers, because I don’t.You do.I offer story, inquiry, observation and accompaniment, but the truth in any of it is yours to determine.My professional experience will matter to some. Fourteen years as a public educator, a certificate in Trauma Informed Coaching, and four years supporting exceptional people in my private practice are part of what I bring. But they aren't the whole reason I choose to sit with another soul in the dark and celebrate being alive.I know what it's like to be made the problem. I know what it's like to have a wildness inside you that people would rather see small, quiet, domesticated and easily controlled.I know the pain of self-abandonment and the deep grief of feeling like something inside you is gone and isn't coming back.I also know what it's like to encounter life on the other side of despair—to discover that what felt permanent could be a season, and to choose what might look to others like an insane devotion to my heart's truth.We're living through a crisis of meaning.I think it might be to remember that we're alive.An elk doesn't have to justify the space its body occupies. It doesn't apologize for what it consumes or prove that its existence has sufficient value. It moves through the world as an elk, participating in an ecology simply because it is alive.I want to know what happens when meaning is drawn from the roots of the Wild and you re-member what it means to be woven into Earth's mystery.
1:1 Encounter
When you're in the mountains, the Wild reveals itself in fragments. Momentary contact. An elk calling in the mist. The smell of wet bear fur. The sound of a whiskey jack stalking you through the bushes, hoping you've brought seed it can eat straight from your hand.Each encounter is immediate and complete.It doesn't require force or pressure. Just silence, perception, and a willingness to witness without agenda. What wants to be known will reveal itself.A 1:1 Encounter follows the same principles.You bring something specific. Something that doesn't need more than a little time to unpack, unravel, and work with. A decision that needs to be made. Something you can't quite see through the fog. An inner storm that's causing concern without causing damage, or the damage that's already been done, and what you're here to repair.Together, we make contact with what wants to be known in you.There's no need to shame it, judge it, or beat yourself up over it.Once it's known, it needs to be encountered long enough for you to choose what comes next.It might be uncomfortable. We can sit there and breathe through it, until you're ready to look the thing in the face and say: okay, this is happening, and I need to move forward. I need a new way.60 minutes · $150 USD
Online via ZoomWhat is asking to be known in this particular moment of your life?
1:1 Bespoke Season
A single encounter with an animal in the Wild will tell you something very specific about it. A print will give you a direction. A smell will give you proximity. And, sometimes this is all you need to make contact with something rich and mysterious.But, there’s something intimate about staying in the encounter. Taking time to slow down and intentionally observe the animal over time. To witness its habits and to notice how they form constellations of patterns that give you a more robust story of who this animal is and how they move through their life.This is the richness that a 1:1 Season offers.In the Wild, survival in an unpredictable environment depends on perception, orientation, creativity and knowing when to move and when to stay still. As a human animal, you too move through the unknown and there’s no amount of certainty you can will into being that will keep you permanently safe.This is the truth that Season helps you orient to.You won’t find a program or a framework that helps you create a life where you stop encountering storms, losses, difficult relationships, consequential decisions, grief, uncertainty, or your own conflicting feelings, because life will keep asking something of you.In Season, we enter into a relationship with a devotion to staying long enough for fragments to become patterns that deepen your perception and responsiveness in place of certainty and control.You bring yourself as you are. Messy, untamed, masked, exposed, raw, emotional, scared, distrusting, hopeful, or curious.It’s all welcome as information that helps me practice the art of noticing where you might repeat yourself, take a shallow breath, or rush past a place you may need to inhabit for a time.As I deepen my perception of you over time, I bring stories and questions as an offer for self-inquiry. What you do with them is entirely up to you.I won’t hand you a map, but I will help you become more wild, more embodied, and more trusting of your intuition as you respond to what life is asking of you.What shape a Season takes will be as unique as you are, because we journey together and you work with me to shape it.There is room for creativity, experimentation, and contact with the unexpected alongside boundaries that preserve sovereignty and differentiation.We might meet weekly for a time and then need more space between conversations. Something that comes up in a session might continue through a voice note later in the week. Maybe we go for a hike or study a book together. Bottom line, we trust the process of your re-membrance and honor the conditions that both our lives are being asked to respond to.3 months
Online · Optional & occasional in-person connection
WhatsApp voice notes + messaging between sessions
The Encountered
Reflections from people I've worked with.Some names have been withheld in honour of privacy.
I’m very grateful to have worked with so many wonderful teachers and guides throughout the years. While their wisdom and teachings have inspired me to sort through many layers of my internal programming, none have helped me locate and utilize my own tools and power for transforming these patterns like Jay is consistently able to do.The most important gift I’ve gained through her wise and caring mentorship has been the discovery of my own ability to identify, sit with, and integrate the uncomfortable emotions which I’d spent decades reflexively avoiding without even realizing it.Jay is a rare practitioner that has been able to both notice the tendency to self-abandon, as well as hold powerful, patient space with an unspoken invitation to come back to center in my own time and to reclaim the power that comes from sitting with the energy rather than running from it.The intention and focus she brings to a session is as raw and confronting as I’ve ever experienced from a practitioner... and at the same time comes with a heartfelt invitation to face the discomfort and uneasiness in the most patient, accepting and compassionate space imaginable.HANDSCULPTED BOROSILICATE MASTER GLASS ARTIST
Jaymi has an incredible ability to create space for your own self-discovery journey. She serves as a guide, kindly and softly directing you down the paths of your inner self that you were too afraid (or unable) to access on your own.With her extensive teaching experience, she was able to meet me where I was at and lead me in a way that best fit my needs.... NOT something many other people in the coaching/guide space are able to do. Our time together felt tailored to me. I never felt rushed, though I constantly found myself excited and exhilarated to dive even deeper into the concepts and parts of myself we were exploring.Instead of creating a program that sucks you in and keeps you trapped for years to come, she has developed a way of teaching you the skills you need to LEAVE her services. She wants you to be able to do these things on your own... knowing that if you ever need her, she'll be there to encourage you to keep going.BRAND STRATEGIST & ART DIRECTOR
My journey with Jaymi has been life changing. As I slowly began to understand and figure out who I am deep within myself, I became stronger, bringing all the weight that I have carried from my past and my childhood to the surface.Jaymi has a way of guiding you through your journey that allows you to ponder what's inside of you. Our lives are impacted and led by the choices we make. Through the mentorship program, it was a constant theme.Her technique as she guides you through your journey into yourself allows you to find your own answers to the questions you are seeking. Her perspective and the way she can help reframe your thoughts has helped me in every conscious thought I have had since.This mentorship program has allowed me to grow as an individual. From an individual who was lost searching for answers, to who I am today. Constantly growing and evolving. Showing me that all the answers I need to know are within myself.OPERATIONS LEADER - PUBLIC ED SECTOR
To say that the work had a profound impact on my life is an understatement.Through my work with Jaymi, I have become so peaceful, so focused, so calm in my life. I still have my vibrant, sparkling energy, but I just feel that it can really move through the instrument of my body into the world in a way that feels so satisfying and like I'm really living my spiritual purpose, doing what I'm here to do in the world.My life is completely different. I know how to rest. I feel that my rest time is really, really valuable and deeply nourishing. And when I need to be productive and motivated, I feel alive. My life is flourishing. My career as a musician is really thriving.There really is no other facilitator out there that does things the way that she does.SOMATIC SEX THERAPIST FOR GAY MEN & EMBODIEMENT PRACTIONER
I had one session with Jaymi, and she supported me to hold myself with more compassion when struggling with difficult and overwhelming emotions. I haven’t struggled with the same challenges since. They come up, and I’m not stuck on them so much. I’m more gentle on myself and am moving through my emotions with more ease and clarity.
If you’re ready for deep, inner work, Jaymi has a beautiful presence that reminds me of sitting next to a deer in a sacred forest. You feel comfortable the moment you start working with her.I found myself sharing thoughts and asking questions I have never dared to reveal or to ask anyone else. Her guidance and answers are always unexpected and soothing.Jaymi holds a beautiful and safe space, where you will find yourself shedding layers that are no longer helpful so you can emerge transformed into a more confident and empowered person.