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Jessica Epperson-Lusty specializes in holistic mindful evolution.

Drawing upon a variety of modalities, she offers guidence, instructs practices, facilities experiences and creates ceremonies for healing, transformation and growth.

05/20/2025

SPACIOUSNESS

One of the tendencies that I notice in myself (you might relate) is the tendency to pattern in feelings and thoughts that constrain the way I show up in life.

Spaciousness in our minds, psyches, and nervous systems allows for new ways of being perceiving, thinking, speaking, and acting to emerge.

Practices, like the one I share in this video, engage our systems on multiple levels to create this quality of spaciousness.

Live to Love,

Jessica

f - https://mailchi.mp/3a07bad6ebe9/leaning-in-transformation-professional-spaces-10356205

03/18/2025

Videocard from Kerala, India & mini-practice (minute 4.26). We begin by nourishing our bodies and attending to our nervous system to open up our capacity for generative reflection. Then, we and engage our inner awareness to attend to something we are resisting. - https://mailchi.mp/e4f869746170/leaning-in-transformation-professional-spaces-10354244

03/12/2025

OFFERINGS

The morning I departed Mandrem, I offered a gift to
sand
sea
sun
breezes
in gratitude to all the beings that made this journey possible.

As I built this offering,
I lifted up
each of the dear
souls who shared
the embodied journey
wove us through,
moving
breathing
feeling
listening
into
Devotion
Service
Illumination
Courage
Wisdom
Love
Care

As I turned the wilting garland
we received in our opening puja into a ,
I saw each of them
in my minds eye
living with heart & soul
into the leaps forward
they felt emerge
in their practices.

Communities of practice are spaces of grace and beauty that allow each of us to be held
with love and support as we heal, explore our growth edges, and resource ourselves to meet the challenges we face in our personal lives and that we’re facing in our communities.

I’m psyched to offer a Journey with Tanja in Portugal, 27 June - 2 July. Check out the link in my bio to join us.

Blessings and appreciation for Day, whose book, movement, and programs is an inspiration and gift to the world!

03/07/2025

ANAM CARA

“The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul… Friendship is always an act of recognition.” John O’Donohue

John O’Donohue’s book titled Anam Cara, referencing the concept of anamchara, a word in Irish monasticism referring to a monk’s teacher, companion or spiritual guide, struck a chord of longing in my heart when I first read it.

Then, I was a young woman carrying into adulthood a longing for relationships with the depth, inspiration, and mutuality he articulates so beautifully.

Since then, cultivating anam caras with and among women - friendships based in mutual recognition, inspiration and collaboration has been a commitment of mine.

It is a commtiment born out of a desire to shift a common aspect of mainstream socialization that sets girls and women up to compare themselves to one another according to standards of beauty and being that so often stifle mutual recognition of our unique gifts and empowerments.

A crucial aspect of the story that Tanja, a beloved anam cara of mine, is weaving for our group of retreaters here in Goa this week is the essential role that the kaylama mitra (spiritual friendship in Sanskrit) between Hanuman and Jambhavan plays in one of Hanuman’s epic acts of service. At a critical moment of immense challenge Jambhavan appears to remind Hanuman of the empowerments he has… empowerments that were born out of his wounds and which are essential to fulfilling his purpose.

Today, as Tanja guided us through an embodiment of the epic story through postures, breath, mantras, and mudra, every cell of my being is flush with the loving empowerment of the soul friendships I have with extraordinary women within which we recognize in each other our unique gifts, intelligence, creativity, and deep soul beauty.

I feel deep gratitude for each of my beloved anam caras who, like Jambhavan, lovingly remind me at crucial and difficult moments of my gifts and empowerments. 🙏🏼😘

And, I feel so much love and appreciation for Tanja for being a divine anam cara - kaylama mitra and collaborator! I am so excited to continue to create together. 🙏🏼😘

03/04/2025

TOUCH

Beings need caring touch.

Most of us live in cultures where our capacity to give and receive caring touch has been diminished by the imposition of, gendered, racialized, sexualized, and classed hierarchies of difference and domination that have been passed down generationally.

Disrupting and dismantling objectifying and exploitative ways of being in relationship with one another and the beings we reside among is necessary to reclaim the sweetness of relations based in mutuality.

If you desire to live in a world where mutual respect and reciprocal care characterize all interactions, take up the task of recognizing how these social codes function inside of you and manifest in how you regard and treat the beings you encounter, which includes the choices you make when you consume food, goods, services, and investments.

Let us enact a revolution in relations to undo what has been done to us and all the precious beings who we live alongside.

We can do this in our very close personal relationships as well as in our public interactions and transactions.

There are a lot of organizations that offer guidance on how to make choices that do not harm or degrade life, and our precious ecosystems.

My beloved friend @ Otistgehandsomehound (check out his amazing work and follow) is an advocate who offers guidance on how to fight against animal testing, and cruelty to animals. Otis recommends supporting PETA, Beagle Freedom Project, and Cruelty Cutter, which is a tool that allows you to scan any barcode and get information about whether they are cruelty free.

02/27/2025

FELLOW TRAVLERS

Sometimes you are super lucky on a 12 hour flight and are seated next to someone who provides you with an utter sense of synchronicity and inspiration!

That was the case this evening when I got seated next to Karthikeya, a student from India whose team (like and follow them!) was selected out of over 2700 teams across India to come to the United States to present on their project to re-introduce aquatic plants to the shoreline ecosystem of their coastal homeplace on the Sea of Bengal.

Over the course of our conversation, I was deeply inspired by all the ways that this group of students is committed to revitalizing what has been degraded and lost through industrial activity.

As Karthikeya passionately described the teams efforts, how they each worked to their skills and strengths and how aside from his technical skills he personally dove 20 feet over and over to plant each plant, it hit me how opportunities like this are at risk.

Opportunities for students, researchers, and volunteers to come together to exchange of the essential life values of care, critical methodologies, and technological innovations for ecological repair made possible by programs funded by the federal government.

And these programs are at risk under the Trump administration.

All of us who are in positions of influence (that means every US citizen and resident) has an opportunity to speak out and advocate to make it clear that we do not want to see these programs starved of the vital resources they need to help keep the exchange of innovations, care, repair and love for all our fellow beings flowing around the globe.

Please take 10 minutes and call your elected members of Congress office and tell them that you want to see them fight for the continuation of all programs that support ecological repair and innovations towards our clear energy future!

02/26/2025

Attending with Care... I am imagine that as is true for me, there is a lot ongoing in your life and in the outside world that you feel reactionary towards.

Unless we practice engaging skillfully to attend to our inner states and direct ourselves mindfully, moving between fight, flight, freeze, and fawn is our natural default.

Thus, invite to join me in this practice to attend to your inner experience to be more response-able toward what you encounter outside of yourself.

https://mailchi.mp/882399bcf539/leaning-in-transformation-professional-spaces-10353490

02/12/2025

Leaning In - Living Love - https://mailchi.mp/ce13165fee72/leaning-in-transformation-professional-spaces-10352984

Join us in this episode of Leaning In as we engage the pull between the personal and the collective, exploring:

How our inner work intersects with the outer changes we desire to support?
How do we presence our joys, hopes, and dreams alongside the instability, threats, and suffering we and many we care for are experiencing?
Where does love live in these times?
�And, how can love guide us?�
We would love to hear how and what this episodes stirs in you!

02/05/2025

Instability as Catalyst - In this episode of Leaning In, we explore in the context of our own lives and the immediacy of the collective moment:

* What it means to be in relationship with a sense of destabilization - exploring both the discomfort and possibility inherent in it
* How to explore the experience of embodied agitation or anxiousness that we are experiencing, and we hear other people giving voice to.
* How we can bring our full selves to meet this moment.

Join us!

https://mailchi.mp/1defbeb9db7c/leaning-in-transformation-professional-spaces-10352577

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