The Work

Our worthiness, our aliveness, and the invaluable nature of our ‘Original Gifts’ arise from this truth: Earth’s beauty, dignity, and design is our inherent beauty, dignity, and design, and it is more than enough.

At deeper levels, we all carry the memory and essence of intactness; the intelligent aliveness that runs through all of Earth’s relationships. Slowing down enough, building presence, growing and trusting our intuition, developing our Ecosomatic skills, biodynamic perceptual awareness, our listening and tracking… allows us to receive, to be held, to rest, to be found & transfigured by this beauty, this animacy of place.

This is decolonizing work: to be shaped by the animate, and ‘re-membered’ back into knowing the depth of true resource. This is the Great Welcome: the direct experience of animate Earth, Mystery, and Soul as inherently worthy. Our ‘Indigenous Soul’ already knows this. Every intact culture knows that it's all holy, and feeds the sacred through beauty - through what they make and what they do - because they're already fed. That’s the fullness of our dignity in action. That's reciprocity.The felt sense of plenty, of contentment, and belonging is what breaks the spell of the ‘postcolonial hypnosis’. 

“I consent only to the authority of the law of the heart of Mother Earth.”

—Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining) 

 Doing the work together, we learn the power and revolutionary potential of skilled togetherness. We learn how to meet profound challenges and also are found by deep beauty, truth, coherence, and essential qualities of self. We move into the work of meeting thresholds, the portals of death, birth, grief, illness, and loss together... The necessity of meeting thresholds of all kinds is a catalyst to animacy and purpose, that invites true aliveness.

Our intention at the Living School of Great Welcome is for you to come be together, to receive the welcome, to build the skills to know the truth of your inherent beauty, aliveness and capacity, and to be a guide for others into theirs. We are here to uplift and reflect the fullness of your natural expression, your aliveness, your knowing that you’re cared for and carried by Earth, and that your revolutionary gifts are so deeply needed. 

Thank you for showing up at this critical time - you are welcome here!  

How we work with Trauma & Grief

  • We are trauma informed and trauma trained (Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute) 

  • We come from a place of discovery with no agenda

  • We access the bigger resource through presence and listening, making way for nature and coherence to come in and do the work - which can look like grief, praise, movement, transfiguring of all kinds

  • We see trauma in relationship to Earth:‘Original beauty’ is a digestive force and Earth does the work of metabolizing when in skilled relationship

  • We hold that life and nature is self-organizing towards healing and wholeness all the time, it is deeply attuned and coherent, and this self-organizing force of life itself digests trauma 

Meet the founding teachers

Luna Rae Rodriguez

Hi, my name is Luna Rodriguez, a creative, visionary, and lover of earth. As unique and complex beings, I’ve found that foundations for truly healthy culture comes from creating and holding safety for self and others first. Through real presence and listening, integration, and allowing life energy to flow through us, we have the chance to fully experience Life, which can look as many ways as there are living beings. That is what we are here for.

Ever since I was a little one, my heart and all I stand for, have always known I am here to go against the status quo, to be the unique fully self expressed unfolding being I am, to be a revolutionary. I explored a career in modeling and commercial acting, I’ve written and released original music, I founded an herbal business, and worked plenty of “jobs”… I tried many ways (but not too hard;) to “fit in” in regard to modern life and have found it just doesn’t work; not for me, not for our world as a whole, and not for earth. In a time where so much of life has been co-opted (starting with earth, and onward to animals, and all human expressions of aliveness) it is our devotion to Life herself that is our most valuable asset! This means, we see and regard all of life as precious and we treat ourselves with dignity and care, and that respect for life ripples into everyone and all that we come in contact with.  

I have learned a variety of modalities and teachings, and completed programs and received certifications from people with deep knowledge, including but not limited to: Vipassana meditation through S.N. Goenka over the last two decades; and with David Hans-Barker of Yogi Lab; Bhakti (devotional) yoga teacher training with Govind Das Rosen at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica, CA; Herbal Field Studies with Tyler Wauters and Mark Disharoon at the Hawthorne Institute in Williams, OR; dreamwork and other esoteric practices with Mexica lineage Toltec author Sergio Magaña in Berkeley, CA; birth and postpartum doula training with Jesse Remer at the Mother Tree in Portland, OR; and postpartum studies with Valerie Weisner of Sacred Birth Traditions in Prescott, AZ. As well, over my life, music and writing teachers have been many, both formal and informal, including receiving a BA in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, and studying recording engineering at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, WA. I have also worked for decades with a wide variety of teachers and practitioners of the healing arts and health and wellness, which I have incorporated into my lifestyle. I am honored to share some of what I have learned and integrated over my life.

“May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in belonging.”

—John O’Donohue

Jonah Jensen SEP, BCST, RPP, RYTT

Hi I’m Jonah Jensen. I’m an Ecosomatic Guide,  Activist for the living Heart of Earth, and advocate for your ‘Original Beauty’.

My life has had its fair share of adversity, with serious injuries, life-threatening illness, and societal-cultural traumas in many forms. At the same time, it’s been deeply blessed by family, profoundly caring teachers, mentors, and supportive elders. What has become clear to me, is how impactful it was that these periods of profound hardship coincided with receiving the graces of all these forms of support simultaneously, while I was often immersed in wild places with long periods of solitude. This stark contrast of light and dark, has been the main catalyst for my healing and ‘re-membering’.

I vividly recall the first moments I felt claimed by Place. I felt deeply in contact with something extremely natural, deeply sense & meaning making, and at the same time resting my whole body and being into a felt sense of Belonging. There was no logical reasoning for it at the time, and it wasn’t something I had earned. I began to recognize that this experience was causal; a culmination of life experiences. It was grace unfolding. I had a subtle sense that something was happening to me; I was being re-membered back into the web of relationships. I felt them literally as my family — palpably, heartbreakingly with grief and praise — as countless kindnesses. Some call this the re-awakening of the ‘Indigenous Soul.’ I came to know this feeling continuously over time, as well as how it was orchestrating me, my life, and my work. I came to see something was mysteriously coming to fruition from a natural progression of events and perceptual tracking skills I’d developed over time; most widely known as ‘Ecosomatics.’ I was becoming increasingly permeable to something deeply original and beautiful. Names for it found me, phrases like ‘original beauty’ or ‘original blessing’ — this magic that was all around and I was being held by — animacy infused in the natural world; the movement of stone, of water, sometimes winged, sometimes with claw, moving with Heart, and deep Love. It’s more than a felt holding, it’s a transfiguring, a metabolic happening that had me embracing fluidity and change back towards Soul; it gifted me with direction.  

Over the last two decades I was graced by practices and teachers (human and more than human) that led me to my current work as a guide for others into this holding, this ‘Great Welcome’, and it is the greatest honor. 

For reference, below is a running list of some of the education and skill building I’ve studied and integrated along the way, thank you for reading. 

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST)Registered and Board-Certified Polarity Therapy Practitioner (RPP), Sivananda Yoga Forest Academy (RYT) Advanced Biodynamic Training w/Franklyn Sills, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy - Working with Babies w/John Chitty, Embodying Embryology - Continuum Movement : Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Advanced Somatic Verbal Skills w/Anna Chitty, Graduate Southwest Institute of the Healing Arts, Classical Hatha Yoga Certification - Sivananda Yoga Forest Academy in Uttar Kashi, Northern India, Tibetan Healing Acupressure - Dharamsala, Northern India , BA Interdisciplinary Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 

STUDIES  Orphan Wisdom School, Animas Valley Institute: Utah Vision Quest, Wildmind Immersion, At Home in the Animate World Immersion, Plant Initiations: Secoya Elders, Ecuadorian Amazon, Vajrayana Empowerments and Practice: Garchen Buddhist Institute, Unified Mindfulness: Shinzen Young, 

FIELD ADVENTURES  Adobe Apprenticeship with Arnold Valdez of Rezolana Farms, Neurofeedback & Biofeedback Therapist at Associates for Psychology & Education, Co-founder & Grassroots Organizer at Proyecto IJA'TZ for preserving Indigenous language in Guatemala, Guidance Counselor  in Kauai, HI

Testimonials

  • "Jonah is a very gifted Ecosomatic guide with a deep devotion to the art of transformation and earth wisdom. In both individual sessions as well as the facilitation of group healing work, I have witnessed his skill at creating an assuring and sacred space. I have been continually amazed by his abilities to listen on a very deep level, perceive clearly and communicate powerfully. His grounded, reverent, gentle and strong leadership as well as a profound subtle awareness are a huge asset to any individual or community striving toward wholeness."

    ~Will Reynolds 

    Wilderness therapy guide

    Astrological councilor

  • Finding humility and dignity at the same source, allowing beauty to reorganize my being, my field and shared relational fields, and moving from wholeness in this world are some of the gifts from the time I have worked with Jonah. None of the approaches I had tried in the last two years of healing come close to the depth and gentle potency of working with him. Jonah's accompaniment is rare and precious. I recognize how it stems from walking one's talk, living with integrity and intelligent sensitivity moment to moment, thorough kindness. His commitment to tracking is the courage of the master willing to be renewed and informed infinitely beyond any level of knowledge or experience. I have seldom felt so safe in a relational space, which means that my nervous system gets a chance to be restored, my physical body can relax, while I discover more of my vibrancy and aliveness. More of me is available, to myself, to the world. The work is both subtle and very much felt. I believe pretty much any walk of life can benefit from his deeply respectful and attuned approach.

    ~Anne Paré

    Bodyworker and meditation teacher

    Ammersee, Germany

  • “Jonah Jensen is an extremely gifted healer and facilitator of council. His highly cultivated skills with attunement and tracking subtle energies in a person or in the field are top-notch. He feels into what’s going on and meets it with care and a refined consciousness, and applies just the right touch to help people open up new possibilities and reconnect with wholeness. Jonah’s gentleness, compassion, sensitivity and integrity make people trust him and know that they’re in very capable hands. He embodies an uncanny, deep connection with the more than human world and with the flow of ritual. Having been in council with Jonah, I can attest that he's adept at creating and facilitating transformative and awakening experiences. If you’re looking for a gifted healer or council guide, Jonah is the man."

    ~Reuvain Bacal

    Psychotherapist, Evolutionary Men's Group Leader, Relationship Coach 

  • In the many hours that l've spent with Jonah, he's shown me again and again his unwavering fierce loyalty to my fundamental goodness, and to his. He turns my gaze ever again toward the warmth of the sun, so that my holding can unwind, so my eyes can find their shine. He offers it all up for the transformation-his many unique and trustworthy skills, a vast collection of tools, his own humanity, clarity, delight, healing stories. He brings a real-time personal journey. He's a wordsmith, a nature spirit, a true spiritual friend. He says, “Look, feel, you are so beautiful.”

    ~Dianne

    Lyons, CO

  • Jonah’s an embodiment of grandfather energy with the occasional playful jester popping in to cause mischief - which helps to keep heavier work feeling lighter and fun! Jonah is a trusted peer and colleague who I feel very comfortable recommending people to. He's a special gem and his offerings are a true gift!

    ~Jewell from Maine

  • There is a gentleness of spirit mixed with fiery awareness and intuition residing deep within Jonah. He feels like he has generations of wisdom and knowing resting in his bones. I have had the privilege of working with him to uncover rooted patterns/fears based from trauma and the safety of space he held afforded a deep unearthing within. Something I have not experienced with any other practitioner. He is unique. He guides you gently so you can beckon your most authentic self, bringing you home inside your body. I often close my eyes and picture him asking me "what's here / what's now." Jonah will always be in my tribe, a guide full of ancient wisdom.

    ~Jamie G.

    Movement & Mental Health Counselor

    Fort Collins, CO

  • JONAH~ Is a beloved guide. He walks the inner knowing already written. I trust him. His profound capacity for holding Sacred Space is a ritual home to listen again & again to your own heart. I cannot recommend his depth enough to honor yourself, your true courageous path. PureGrace~ in the mystery & study of soul gesture.

    ~Caroline, Artist J

  • It is difficult to put Jonah's work into words. His gifts and offerings are immense. In his land-based work, he facilitated a powerful and profound conversation between myself and the land with a depth that I have rarely experienced.

    ~A. Matisse

  • Through Jonah’s Ecosomatic approach, I learned to become more porous to nature, to listen to the wisdom of my body and the earth around me. In that listening, I began embracing my wildness—trusting my instincts, honoring my rhythms, and finding beauty in the natural unfolding of my healing.

    ~Ella Lund