About Jesua:
Jesua Wight is a gifted healer, seasoned mentor, and skilled ceremonial guide with over 25 years of experience serving individuals, couples, and families in private practice.
Through her Soul Mentoring programs and Ceremonial Immersions, Jesua specializes in designing safe, sacred containers that foster conscious evolution, spiritual deepening, and multidimensional somatic healing.
For over three decades, Jesua has been blessed by an intimate, devoted discipleship with her teacher, Gangaji —an internationally revered non-dual teacher in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi. This lifelong devotion has been a foundational influence in both her life and work.
Jesua’s approach is also informed by years of private apprenticeship in shamanic and entheogenic studies, depth psychology, trauma science, traditional indigenous wisdom, the sacred enneagram, and the steep spiritual path of motherhood.
In this blending of influences, Jesua’s work weaves together the nondual teachings of fundamental awareness, presence, stillness, and radical inclusivity, alongside leading-edge trauma-informed techniques, and the ancient, indigenous art of prayer, grounded in our shared humanity, as we learn how to make medicine of life’s inherent challenges.
As a writer and speaker, Jesua shares relatable, personal wisdom stories that ring with universal, inspiring, and resonant themes—stories of humbling, of treasure gleaned from heartbreak, the holy medicine of failure and loss, surprising courage, and essential surrender.
You can find and follow her on Substack.
She is the founder and director of Embody Love Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and entheogenic ministry headquartered in Ashland, Oregon.
Among other services, donations to the Foundation help fund The Veteran Program, which offers access to leading-edge, trauma-informed healing modalities for U.S. Veterans seeking healing, resolution, and freedom from the impacts of significant life trauma.
Jesua received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, with concentrations in writing, religion, and modern dance. She later completed an 18-month residential certification program at Heartwood Institute, graduating as a Holistic Health Practitioner expertly trained in a variety of healing modalities. Jesua has been directly initiated by indigenous teachers from Peru, Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.
Jesua lives nestled in the valley of Ashland, Oregon, with one remaining amazing teenager at home—and their two beloved pups.
My Perspective:
Our world is at a threshold, a crucible that urges our remembrance of essential connectedness, wholeness, and love. And everyone has a part to play…
If we are living fully and deeply, then sooner or later our lives will include the kind of difficult life curriculum that is designed to break, disillusion, sober, and humble us. And yet it is through this very breaking of core identity, this loss of who we thought we were, that we are given a chance to come home to who we truly are, and to the love we are here to live.
Awakening is messy. It doesn’t eradicate our humanness, our vulnerabilities, our limitations, our personalities. To awaken is to reckon with the reality of life’s horror and heartbreak, as we come home to the essential, liberating truth of who we are. To awaken is to learn how to face our suffering directly, seeing and feeling whatever we have avoided, as we open wider to the radical inclusivity of Love.
I see the soul’s journey as intrinsically holy: a curriculum of tests and trials, revelation and heartbreak, designed to school us in the precise ways we each need to come home to ourselves and the love we are here to live.
I believe one of the reasons we are here is to make medicine of all that life brings — to learn how to alchemize our challenges into sources of compassion, wisdom, and sacred responsibility.
I believe that the lens through which we perceive our lives — and the narrative we choose to tell — shapes everything.
I believe that we each have an innate capacity to meet whatever appears to stand in the way of peace, freedom, sacred purpose, and lasting self-love.
Where Personal Evolution Meets Global Healing:
We are part of a vast web of emergent, dynamic consciousness — interconnected with all being, throughout all space and time — truly always and only Oneself.
If, at the deepest level, we are truly One Life, then there is no separation between personal healing and global healing. As we surrender our habituated, conditioned, and inherited dance with suffering, we directly lighten the load of the world.
We are at a crucial tipping point as a species, and estrangement from what unites us is no longer viable.
There is a profound universal longing to know true belonging in our lives, in our relationships, and in our world. Beyond the call to heal ourselves and awaken personally, many of us yearn for an authentic and deeply aligned way to contribute, to serve.
We long to remember our true dharma; to align with what we came to give.
Our humanness includes the capacity to live as remarkable kindness, self-compassion and empathy—daring to see ourselves in one another, extending our mercy as a healing force.
When we finally choose an essential intimacy with our own true hearts, everything in life responds to this. The weight of the world is lightened.
We become beacons of love, sacred sanity, and remembrance.
Just Like You~ Making Medicine as We Go:
Life can be hard, and my life has been no exception.
I’ve met my own dance with suffering, self-betrayal, grief, self-loathing, shame—and I’ve navigated the traumatizing terrain of life-threatening illness, divorce, professional setbacks, single parenting, loving someone with mental illness and addiction, financial struggles etc…
Personal horrors are not abstract for me, and yet my fierce and relentless commitment to making medicine of it all is what makes me relatable, trustworthy, and useful to you.
Holy Messy Life— One Story of the Wounded Healer
My first humbling came in 1976, at the age of 18 months, in the form of Eosinophilic Meningitis. It nearly killed me, traumatized my 22-year-old parents half to death, and left me with debilitating neurological issues that monopolized my childhood experience—while offering me invaluable psychological and spiritual material to work with as I became a young healer.
A near-death experience at 19 delivered a kind of spiritual ultimatum, requiring that I choose to fully incarnate—to say yes to life, yes to learning how to love myself, and yes to the undeniable mess, loss, and failure that accompany an embodied human life.
This initiation demanded my full embodiment, which meant making the terrifying choice to dedicate one-third of my college curriculum to studying dance—knowing this would expose my lingering neurological damage in a way that would bring me into direct relationship with shame and self-loathing.
At the same time, outside of college, I began working with an energy healer. I had never done anything like this before, nor did I know anyone who had. This was back in 1993, long before energy healing had entered the mainstream. Acupuncture and massage were the only non-allopathic modalities I had ever encountered.
But after my near-death experience, and the extraordinary spiritual opening it initiated, my intuitive knowing was crystal clear. I somehow knew I needed an unconventional and somatic approach to healing and integration—for all I had been through physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Alongside the physical health issues, for many years I had also struggled with body dysmorphia and an eating disorder—a painful inheritance that runs through my family. I wrestled with a deep discomfort inside my own skin, toxic levels of self-judgment, body-loathing, and an addiction to self-deprivation.
The assignment I received in the wake of that near-death experience was to come all the way into my body—not just neurologically, or even energetically, as the dance training supported, but as love. I had to learn how to love being in my body—this tall, curvaceous woman-body. I had to relinquish my addiction to being at war with myself.
I worked with this extraordinary healer nearly every week for the final two years of college. By the time I graduated, I knew—beyond a shadow of doubt—that healing was my path and calling.
After college, as I immersed myself in the study of healing—which, by nature, included receiving countless hours of healing work—I became increasingly intimate with the underlying, insidious forms of suffering inside me. The deeper I went, the more horrified I became by the unshakable sense of self-loathing I carried, along with persistent patterns of relational drama and despair.
This particular flavor of suffering catapulted my true prayer for freedom and peace. It led directly to meeting my teacher, Gangaji, when I was 22—an encounter that fundamentally altered the trajectory of my life path.
When we make a deep, true prayer for help, it is only a matter of time before help appears.
Meeting my teacher led to the direct realization of what cannot be lost or broken—that which is inherently free and found, permanently home and whole within us all.
For those of us who carry the archetype of the Wounded Healer, it tends to work us throughout our lives—not, ideally, in a way that defines us, but in a way that continuously liberates us from the original wound.
One of the most beautiful aspects of walking the healer’s path is that everything we live through—every loss we meet, every heartbreak, every crisis we survive, every dark season through which we are tested and tempered—immediately expands our capacity to meet and hold the ones who come to us.
When we are truly humbled by life, compassion and empathy naturally follow. If we have walked with seemingly unbearable flaw, shame, and self-loathing, we know how to recognize it in another. And if we’ve learned to love ourselves in those tender, hidden chambers of unworthiness, then we know how to love others there too.
It is in this spirit that I welcome you—wholeheartedly, just as you are. It is my deepest honor to serve those who come, from the full depth and breadth of my humanity, in joyous devotion to welcoming you home to the deepest truth of who you are.
