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Life and Work with Jenessa Eisler

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jenessa Eisler.

Jenessa, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
 I was living in Brooklyn, NY and was doing work with the Brooklyn Birthing Center as a midwife assistant. It was in the space of supporting laboring mamas that I experienced the power of hands-on healing work. The body talks, and I was able to be an active listener, with joy, with presence. I didn’t stay working in birth; I learned that the on-call nature of birth and my want to show up with my utmost integrity was challenging in my nervous system. So I decided to pivot. After the recommendation of a dear friend to learn LomiLomi (a Hawaiian healing art), I leaned into a LomiLomi training. I was the only non-bodyworker at the training, and perhaps it was beginner’s mind, or perhaps it was stepping into a practice that deeply resonated with my heart, but I felt completely AT HOME doing the work. After that training, I practiced on friends, and ultimately decided to go to massage school to continue my education and take a dedicated step in the direction of healing, therapeutic bodywork. The massage school I went to in Hawaii had a thorough curriculum of connective tissue therapy as well as consciousness work, which alongside my lomilomi background, felt like complimentary modalities to have in my toolbox. Connective Tissue Therapy is slow, deep, firey work – addressing fascia and adhesions, and LomiLomi has a flowing movement that resembles water and the healing lulling of waves – all with the undercurrent of the sacredness of life and holding space for our whole selves (which also includes our ancestors). I moved out of New York and found myself in Colorado, where the business of my bodywork practice grew organically and with intention. I found a collective office space in Boulder and began seeing clients. That office space not only provided a professional place to see clients but a community of other practitioners that are making manifest their healing practices as well. It was such a supportive environment that encouraged me along my way. Through word of mouth grew my beloved practice. I now practice out of my office in Longmont, and I feel so lucky and honored to be part of the deep healing work of individuals on their path of heart-centered healing.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
 I don’t know if I’d say it’s been a smooth road. There are certainly ups and downs, there is a lot of internal work that comes with being an entrepreneur. Some of my struggles have shown up around money: income can fluctuate, so finding calm and trust in that, and not falling prey to the scarcity feelings that can live in me. Also my rates, feeling confident around what I charge for my service or feeling sure-footed around raising my rates. Money is a charged subject for most of us, no matter our money blueprint or money history, so I would say that being prepared to do some deep digging around money can only benefit a person who is just starting out on the entrepreneurial journey in the healing world and beyond. Another struggle was talking about myself! Talking about my business and what I offered; it took me a while to feel good about my languaging, and to feel like I was speaking about what I offer in a meaningful way that was true for me and communicated something of value for the person(s) I was talking to. I have found it INVALUABLE to have community while I walk this path. It is so supportive and normalizing to bring questions or concerns to other women on the path of entrepreneurship; feedback and questions from the community along the way has helped me shape my practice. And another piece of advice I would offer is that there is so much learning in the DOING. No matter how prepared we are, inevitably something will come up that we did not expect, and to take in stride that bumps or obstacles are truly the places where we have work to do – so in that way, it locates us, it is our entry point to our work. So the practice of grace with ourselves is important, allowing ourselves to do it imperfectly, but do it all the same.

Please tell us about Wild Light Healing Arts.
 I offer therapeutic bodywork that involves connective tissue therapy, massage, and lomilomi. I have found that I blend these techniques to provide a space for the recipient to not only feel deeply relaxed, but also that acute areas have been addressed, and worked. I’m also an artist, so I bring my appreciation of beauty and process to the treatment room. I think I might be most proud of the fact that clients report feeling such a dramatic shift in their bodies and in their spirit when they leave the treatment room. It is my hope that individuals leave with sense of more clarity, more space, more awareness, more freedom not just in their bodies but in their lives. One of my foundational values is to bring my heart to every treatment. It is important to me that the people I work with know that they have 100% safe space to be themselves, to express themselves, to honor themselves, that this time and this work is for them – for their highest healing. I am here to facilitate that, and hold space for that. I treat this work as sacred, and thus there is reverence imbibed in each session.

Who have you been inspired by?
There are many women who have inspired me in my life. My fellow entrepreneurs at HoloBeing Wellness Center; Alexandra Davis, Kelly Walsh, Danielle Weiss, Erin Hernandez, Danielle Martin, Alexis Ornellas, Teal Stamm, Anneliese Pyatt and especially Lesley Glenner the founder of HoloBeing who set the stage for having community in business. I feel inspired by all of these women for endlessly pursuing their truth, in their lives and in their businesses. Seeing their practices change, shift, adjust has been deeply inspiring to me, and seeing the quality of work they offer is stunning.

My mom has been an inspiration in business. She and my dad started a family business in the 70s so I grew up seeing her run, grow, and develop their business. She gained savvy that has helped me as I run, grow and develop my business today.

I have several women friends who inspire me tremendously, the ways they live their lives, seeking growth, committing to finding what works (again, in life and business!) These talented artist friends have found their businesses in different dimensions: a mobile animation school – Laura Bellmont, gardening & gardening design – Missy Bateson, Lai Chung Houlihan, fashion design – Jessica Gwynn. All separate business owners have been willing to go through the struggles of life and business, and still come out on the other side with more knowledge and strength.

Passionate teachers in my life have been a source of inspiration, from grade school through massage school to yoga teachers. To see the power in women, the insight, the gentle yet sharp presence, and the way that we ALL find our own authentic way to be in the world, It’s been profound: Melinda Botello, Mrs. Platt, Carole Madsen, Tunde Borrego, Laura McKellin.

Christine LaCerva was my therapist in NYC, and her straight-shooting, loving way inspires me still. Her dedication and devotion to emotionally growing and developing is a bedrock in my life.

My daughter. She’s only 2.5, but she INSPIRES me. She inspires me to remain present, to value the pieces of life that are seemingly mundane, and she also inspires me to strike a balance in my life and in my work. To track where my values are, where my time is going, where my effort and energy is going. And to continue to come back to self-care. All. The. Time.

Pricing:

  • 90 minute massage treatment – $150
  • 2 hour massage treatment – $200

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Image Credit:
Daniel Boulanger, Laura Bellmont, Lee Stonehouse, Rick Marcolina, Jenessa Eisler

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