Hi, beloved!
Welcomehome.
Chances are, if you've found your way here, there's probably a reason.
You might be wondering who I am, where this work comes from, and whether it's right for you.
So let me share my story — both the challenging parts and the transformative ones — to see if it resonates with your own story.
My story is like many human stories. It begins when everything falls apart.
My ending began on Christmas eve, when I heard, through a doctor’s voicemail, that my then husband and I wouldn’t (ever) conceive a child.
In that moment of devastating grief, everything I thought my life would be dissolved.
Of course, there is so much more, but for the sake of keeping this story short, I want to share what happened afterwards — the path that opened and brought me home to myself.
As I moved through that devastating loss, something unexpected began to emerge. Experiences I couldn't explain or ignore. I started having prophetic dreams again, connecting with something deeper than everyday consciousness. My creative voice returned through poetry and song.
The truth is, I'd always had these sensitivities. As a child I'd been deeply intuitive, creative, connected to something larger. But growing up had buried all of that beneath expectations and responsibilities.
As my old life fell away, I started remembering who I actually was.
So I set out to understand what was happening and how to work with it.
I studied with indigenous elders, learned from ancient traditions, explored somatic practices and energy work. I trained in ways of being with the body, the psyche, and the deeper dimensions of human experience.
And slowly, I learned to trust life moving through me again.
I integrated all the parts of myself I'd been taught to hide —
the sacred and the ordinary became inseparable —
and I learned to hold space for others going through similar transformations.
So that's the short version.
If you prefer all of the very mundane specifics of how I have come to offer this medicine on Earth, you may want to know my credentials:
Education
B.A. with honors in English Literature + Theatre, The University of Virginia
M.Ed. in English Literature and Science, The University of California, Los Angeles
The Invitas Institute, a year-long training in Creativity, Corporate Consulting + Organizational Leadership with poet David Whyte
Apprenticeship
10 years of advanced shamanic apprenticeships
10+ significant plant dietas in the Shipibo Tradition
4 years of study with the herbal medicines + dragon mysteries of my ancestral lands in Ireland, Scotland + England
3 years of apprenticeship in Hawaiian Fern Medicine (Pua'a'ehu'ehu)
4 years of somatically-focused personal plant medicine integration work
2 years of study in shamanic astrology + archetypal wisdom
Birth Doula Certification with Whapio + the Matrona
Tantric Birth Workshop with renowned midwife Naoli Vinaver (including the Rebozo Technique)
5 years as a student of Jennifer Welwood, and her merging of Buddhist wisdom + somatic psychology
Creative Projects
Two, full length studio albums of music and a catalogue of singles (singer + songwriter)
Currently compiling a book of essays and poetry (and hundreds of unpublished ones)
Ordained minister (offering weddings, blessings, baptism and ceremonies of all kinds)
In the last decade, I've led dozens of retreats and workshops around the world: from Peru to California (including The Esalen Institute), Hawaii, Alabama and Kentucky, focusing on earth medicine, sound and song, and the restoration of creative life force: BIRTH: Blossoming into Spring, Drumming + Dreaming, Spiral of Life, The Elements of Creation, Psychedelics + The Shadow Realms, Trust Your Inner Vision, Tuning the Human Biofield, Heart of Devotion, among others, alongside sound journeys and healing ceremonies.
My work with clients is always in service of your own awakening and embodiment — helping you restore your capacity to navigate life from your own deepest knowing.
I trust that you already know, somewhere inside, what you need.
Together, we create space for your intuition, creativity, authentic expression and connection to emerge and guide you.
All my love,
If you’re interested in a bio + photo, for any marketing purposes, here’s an (even shorter) story!
Jane Mayer is a medicine woman, creative, doula and guide who supports people in coming fully alive. Alongside working with private clients, she writes, records and performs music, and guides a school for creativity and awakening.
Her practice weaves indigenous medicine from Peru, Hawaii and Ireland with the Christian mysticism of her home in the Deep South, and training in nervous system work, somatic psychology, and trauma-informed care.
She works with sound, myth, dreams, plant medicine, energy medicine and somatic integration to help people reconnect with their deeper nature and innate gifts.
She is devoted to the heart of all things, sacred union, and the liberation of all beings. To learn more, visit iamjanemayer.com.
