Over the twenty years prior to 2012, when she took up her writing as the principle task in life, Jessie Ayani devoted most of her time to the facilitation of personal growth through an inspired but grounded path to self-awareness called Awakening and Healing the Rainbow Body. The books with those titles and her shamanic journey CDs are the tools she developed to help people understand the beauty and wisdom of our multi-dimensional self. They help heal the past, a necessary task if one is intending to move forward into self or soul awareness, and they are easy to use individually or in circle.
Her books of fiction are another way to present the spiritual work, through the lives of her characters and the extraordinary experiences they have with higher and inner worlds. Her heroine, Leah, is her vehicle to express the spiritual truths from her soul. Jessie wholeheartedly loves her characters as they continually surprise her with their imaginative solutions to life's dilemmas and the revelations of truth that hit the reader, viscerally, between the eyes.
Leah shows women their vulnerability and their core strength. She stumbles, she falls and she succeeds — and changes the world and herself in the process.
Jessie's background has always been strong in the study of the mystery school teachings, but also in alternative medicine, spiritual healing, and martial arts. She earned a PhD from the University of Minnesota Medical School. This training fostered her inner scientist's need to continually question, explore and research — and a fair bit of allopathic medical knowledge, which she finds especially useful in life and in her writing.
To round things out, Jessie has a great love for biodynamic gardening, the bees, and her small town community's efforts at local sustainability … oh, and the decidedly gorgeous snow-capped mountain under her feet and dominating the landscape out her front door – Mount Shasta.