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“As a highly sensitive person, I felt safely held, heard, and seen with Kinde as she helped me navigate some of the difficult road blocks on my Soul’s journey. She is a skilled guide with the eyes of an eagle and the loving fierceness of a mother bear.”
“Kinde’s compassionate listening skills are surpassed only by her ability to intuitively recognize what is most meaningful — synthesizing language, body intelligence, keen perception, and myriad information. She always met me where I was, challenged me to venture further, and supported me in the most effective ways. Kinde’s unceasing creativity and empathy revealed themselves in every conversation.”
“Our work together has offered me innumerable opportunities to practice being present and persevering through resistance and making decisions easily without stories or regrets. I am a much freer person.”
“When I look back on my healing journey the past few years, I truly believe the medicine walks (particularly the night walk) have been the most profound in showing me things about myself that I needed to face and also directing me to the path of self-acceptance. The work Kinde does is incredibly powerful and has helped me immensely. She has had a big impact on my life and I wouldn’t be where I am without the lessons that have come from being brave with her. Thank you for what you do.”
“I’ve been startled “awake” by a new sense of embodied disconnection noticed when I finally started slowing down. During this deep nature walk I was able to hear inner wisdom and others’ shared stories with newfound tenderness. To hear your own story reflected back to you is so precious. I noticed less judgment as my listening heart opened to previously unseen connections found everywhere within nature’s liminal space.”
Reflecting on my experience with Rooted Expansion fills me with gratitude. I have worked with a life coach previously (Jenna herself), but this was my first time working with a “team” and trying new modalities outside of one-on-one conversational sessions. The support I received was beyond anything I could have envisioned.
I wasn’t completely sure what to expect when I signed on, but I knew I needed support during a very challenging transitional period in my life, and based on my previous experience working with Jenna 1:1, I harbored a great deal of trust in the practitioners affiliated with Rooted Expansion.
Admittedly, I was nervous at the start, but very quickly and early on I was wholly impressed by and am ever grateful for the connections I made with Kinde, Ariana and Bruna during our work together.
Not only did I experience for the first time the magic of having the support of an entire community genuinely dedicated to my personal growth and expansion, but as I began working with new modalities and continued with my commitment to the work over the course of 6 months, I also felt exponentially empowered to push myself further and further outside of what I thought I knew about the transitions I was navigating.
Most importantly though, the greatest gift was the unknown – the entirely unexpected discovery of what it means to participate in the human experience as part of a COMMUNITY. I stepped into Rooted Expansion on a personal journey, and I am now continuing onward with a richer and deeper understanding of what it means to move through the world in the company of OTHERS. For me, that insight has made all the difference in this period of change and expansion.
There is still so much room to keep growing, and I look forward to deepening into this work when the time is right once again. I would welcome anyone who feels called – however quietly or strongly – to explore what this professional, dedicated, and beautiful community has to offer.
My story is both universal and unique . . .
I am the daughter of Mormon pioneers and German immigrants, people of adventurous and hard-working nature. I was born in Utah, early in the 1960’s — a time of cultural upheaval when a new consciousness began to erupt on planet earth. Though I was a child at its apex, this era of free love and peace-not-war imprinted itself in my psyche.
I had a questioning mind from an early age and wanted to know more than my family and culture could offer — and so in limitless, unsatiated curiosity, the journey of my life began.
After time in San Francisco working as a graphic designer, I returned to Utah in my late 20’s and worked until my early 50’s in my own design business. I loved design and taught at the University of Utah for a number of years, opening younger minds to the hidden-in-plain-sight principles of negative space, visual rhythm, balance and unity & variety; to the process of designing, and how our human bodies move through and make sense of designed spaces.
I was drawn to climbing. At 36, I married a British alpinist, 14 years my senior, and we traveled around the world, climbing rock cliffs and trekking in big mountains. I was especially impacted by the Tibetan Buddhist culture and mind-blowing magnificence of the Himalaya in Northern India and Nepal, traveling there a number of times.
All the while, I was investigating my inner self and the world of the unseen — of energy and spirit. Meditation drew me in my mid-thirties and I began an evolving practice that continues to this day. Driving home after my second ten-day Vipassanna retreat in Joshua Tree, I had to pull off the road somewhere in Nevada, walk into a grassy field and sit there as ecstacy coursed through my body and the late afternoon light exploded into surreal vibrancy in my brain.
Then mid-life hit at 42 and slammed me down hard! I left my beloved husband and began a great descent into grief, which lasted nearly a decade. My path led to the underworld and all the richness, sensitivity and depth that intense inner suffering and continued small awakenings can cultivate, as I sought to understand and heal.
Eventually I was led away from my 35+ year career as a designer and into my soul’s purpose — rooting myself in contemporary pan-cultural rites of passage ceremony (which I have guided for almost a decade) and studying & practicing many other subjects & healing modalities such as Transpersonal Psychology and Ecopsychology, Focusing, Reiki, Community Grief Tending, Tonglen, Integral Theory, plant medicine, and Integral Coaching, to name a few.
Now beginning the 60s of my life, I can see an entire landscape spread out below me. Now I know there are sadly no ‘islands where it all works out’; that the deep valleys of sorrow and canyons of being lost, high peaks of spiritual insight and flat plains of everyday living are one inseparable territory — and are all critical to the soul’s development. I know this whole landscape can be an inspiring adventure if traversed with awareness, and company. I also know life is not a solo journey. We are inextricably interwoven with each other and with all the beings and elements of the earth. We need each other.
I know my human wounds and foibles, and I feel the power of my ever-unfolding gifts. I was born to serve in these times of massive change; to be here to guide and support all those who feel drawn to what I have to offer.
In a shared space of sacred relationship, we can explore your soul’s path of evolution together; beyond the culturally conditioned norms of thinking and behaving, through the dark weirdness beyond the first emergence out of the Matrix, toward the liberation and peace that is your birthright.
I look forward to hearing your story.
