mayana jacobsen

As a mentor and ceremonialist, I support people in journeys of embodiment, transformation, and consciousness expansion. Decades of devoted study and practice of yoga, shamanic pathways, and cross-cultural psychologies have led me to this offering: a praxis of illumination rooted in animist wisdom, informed by emergent science, and guided by apprenticeship in traditional lineages. I welcome all called towards connection with the healing intelligence of their soul, and communion with the powers of transformation alive in nature.

I situate this work at the confluence of a weave of disciplines: Ecopsychology, Psychedelic Therapy, somatics, creative arts and Eastern spiritual wisdom. As a practitioner in the Santo Daime—a syncretic Amazonian mystery school—all I share is grounded in the animist cosmovision alive in forest medicine traditions, and held in a network of accountability to mentors in Brazil.

I am committed to reciprocity with the wisdom-keepers who tend earth-based lineages, and solidarity with all movements for indigenous sovereignty. A deep bow to the Coast Salish tribes who are the original stewards of the land I call home. This work is gender-identity and poly-affirming, and rooted in decolonial, anti-racist, feminist and neuro-queer theory.

I speak English and Spanish and offer all services at a sliding scale for people with marginalized identities and limited resources.


EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • PhD student in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (currently enrolled)

  • MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (May 2025)

  • Inner Trek’s Psilocybin Facilitator Certification program (March 2023)

  • 8 Limbs Yoga Centers Teacher Training (2015)

  • Vancouver Film School Digital Design Program (2005)

  • Esalen Institute Massage Certification Program (2001)

  • Ida Rolf Institute, Rolfing Trainings 1 & 2 (2001)

  • Naropa University, BA in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies (1999)