I found myself holding two parallel realities at once: profound spiritual insight alongside confinement within a system largely oriented toward pharmaceutical intervention. While I now honor the role Western medicine can play in regulation and stabilization, my lived experience revealed a significant gap between treatment and true integration.

What became clear to me was that healing must address the soul, not only the symptom. I witnessed individuals being medicated without adequate support for meaning-making, emotional processing, or spiritual integration. It felt less like mending and more like containment.

In the months that followed, I sought deeper evaluation and advocated for my own care. Over time, I came to understand that diagnostic language can help others contextualize experience—but it does not define the totality of one’s truth. I know my experience to have been a spiritual awakening.

Across many indigenous cultures, individuals who might be labeled as disordered within Western systems are often recognized as spiritual leaders or medicine people. Likewise, in parts of India, it is not uncommon for mental health professionals to work alongside traditional healers to address both physical and spiritual dimensions of illness. These perspectives became touchstones for me and continue to inform how I hold space today.

I share this part of my story because vulnerability and honesty are foundational to my therapeutic relationships. Many people arrive feeling sensitive, misunderstood, or disconnected from their inner authority. My work is to remind them that sensitivity is not a flaw—it is often an initiation, and one that deserves to be held with reverence, discernment, and care.

Sound, Kundalini & Eastern Wisdom

Following this awakening, meditation became a cornerstone of my daily life. Music—something I had loved since childhood—naturally wove itself into my healing. I have played guitar since my teenage years and have always understood sound as a bridge between worlds.

In 2019, I began studying vibrational sound therapy through the Vibration Sound Association (VSA), training in both on- and off-body sound healing techniques. This work felt like a homecoming—an intuitive remembering of how vibration supports regulation, release, and inner listening.

As my studies deepened, I encountered Kundalini Yoga and philosophy, immediately recognizing this framework as language for my lived experience. In Eastern yogic tradition, Kundalini refers to a dormant energy at the base of the spine that, when awakened, activates expanded states of awareness and perception. While often translated as “enlightenment,” I understand this process as a lifelong unfolding—one that requires integration, grounding, and support.

Later in 2019, I traveled to Sedona, Arizona, where I completed my 200-hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training at 7 Centers Yoga Arts, under the lineage of Yogi Bhajan, guided by my teachers David “Hari Jap” Meyers and Sraddhagasgar Ruth Hartung. This immersive month profoundly shaped my understanding of yogic philosophy, Ayurvedic wisdom, and the importance of well-nurtured community.

Though Sedona will always feel like a home away from home, I knew my work was meant to take root back in Maryland.

Crown Creator Studios & Community Care

In 2019, I founded Crown Creator Studios with the intention of making Eastern holistic wellness more accessible, grounded, and community-centered. In early 2020, I connected with Missy Teague, co-founder of Wishing Star Farm & Wellness, where I have since offered regular sound baths, yoga classes, workshops, ceremonies, mini-retreats, and seasonal gatherings.

I have facilitated both public and private group retreats and supported corporate wellness events, working with individuals from all walks of life. While each experience is unique, the common thread is a shared desire for reconnection, embodiment, and wholeness.

At the heart of my work is the understanding that healing happens on many levels—somatic, energetic, emotional, and belief-based. People come not to be “fixed,” but because they feel the call to remember themselves more fully.

Failure as Initiation

Along my path, I have walked through projects that bloomed—and others that did not take the form I once imagined. In 2022, I co-owned a women-led yoga studio, an experience that offered profound lessons in leadership, collaboration, and discernment. I have also been involved in larger land-based wellness visions that ultimately dissolved before coming to fruition.

I do not view these moments as failures. I understand them as initiations.

Each ending refined my clarity, strengthened my integrity, and clarified the kind of spaces I am truly called to steward. Without these chapters, I would not bring the grounded presence, humility, or depth that shapes my work today.

This philosophy is central to how I support others. I do not believe in failure—only in feedback, redirection, and growth. Setbacks are not signs to stop; they are invitations to listen more closely and rise more authentically.

Nothing on the path is wasted.

Bodywork, Energy & Thai Lineage

My practice is integrative and rooted in both study and lived experience. I am a Licensed Massage Therapist, VSA-certified Sound Healing Practitioner, 200-hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Usui Reiki Level II Practitioner, and Certified Thai Bodywork Practitioner.

My Reiki training includes work with the chakra system, energetic calibration, and foundational understanding of Vedic marma points, meridian pathways, acupoints, and reflexology. Energy work has long been woven into my sessions—both through hands-on Reiki and subtle field-based work within the aura.

In 2022, through community connection, I was introduced to Southeast Asian Physiotherapy and the art of Vedic Thai Bodywork. I studied through the Vedic Thai Conservatory under the guidance of Mukti Michael Buck. Thai Bodywork integrates marma point therapy, rhythmic compression, and assisted stretching, traditionally practiced on a cushioned floor mat.

This work deepened my desire to understand anatomy and kinesiology, leading me to pursue licensure in massage therapy to support embodied healing with greater integrity and care.

My sessions often meet people both in the physical body and in the energetic field, supporting regulation, release, and reconnection on multiple levels.

Where You’ll Find Me

I currently offer services at:

• Wishing Star Farm & Wellness – Glen Arm, MD

• R&R Healing – Edgewood, MD

While these are my primary locations, I collaborate with a wide network of facilitators and venues. If you have a specific request regarding services, location, or collaboration, I welcome you to reach out.

It is an honor to support others in remembering their wholeness, reclaiming authorship of their wellness journey, and stepping more fully into who they are becoming.

Sat Nam,
Bridgette Jester