About Jewel

In 2008 after 25 years of spiritual study, practice and training, Jewel became ordained as an Interfaith Minister, from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. Jewel serves as a spiritual mentor with One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and has served as a Hospice Bereavement Volunteer since 2006, co-founder of the “Step by Step” Grief Hiking Group. Jewel leads “Just Sit” True Meditation at Community United Church of Christ. Jewel created the Ask One Question global interactive community based project and is the founder of Ministry for the Trees Project and the "The Contemplative Path to Silence".

The exploration of silence is the foundation for Jewel’s work. Allowing what arises to be met in that vast spaciousness where all things can be felt and witnessed with “Presence” frees us from the stories that have defined and limited us. We begin to sense we are so much more than we ever dreamed as we experience our true nature, which is limitless. Moving in the world with a greater sense of freedom and connectedness allows the creative impulse to live through us uncorrupted and unfettered. This is the joy of “Being” and Grace.

Jewel has had the immense good fortune to study, train and apprentice with some extraordinary living masters, spiritual teachers and healers. Each of these has contributed a piece of the quilt that has become Jewel’s life expression and has shaped her work over the years.

• One Spirit Interfaith Seminary - NYC
• Grief and Bereavement Counseling and Hospice End of Life Care with Joan Halifax & Boulder County Hospice.
• Adyashanti – Silent Retreats and Intensives
• Radiant Mind Practitioner and Mentor Training with Peter Fenner
• Feng Shui Mentorship and Initiation with Master Lin Yunn & Catherine Metz
• Shamanism and Shamanic Healing Training - The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Michael Harner & Sandra Ingerman
• Transpersonal Psychology - Boulder Graduate School
• Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner – Teacher Trainings - with Mary Burmeister
• Colorado Mountain College