Jasmine Gold has spent her adult life gradually awakening to Spirit and the truth of who she is. Her process of transformation continues to this day in an ongoing dance of discovery.

Jasmine had a fairly typical childhood filled with typical childhood difficulties. In college, she started researching careers and became fascinated by the study of personalities. All the personality and career tests, such as her INFJ personality, pointed her toward a teaching or counseling career, but she had too many fears to seriously consider heading that direction. In 1994, her previously healthy and straightforward life dissolved when her thyroid became hyperactive. This was the start of Jasmine's “formal” spiritual journey.

The hyperactive thyroid and resultant crossed-eyes were her wake up call to the world of spirituality, personal growth and alternative medicine. She wanted to heal her thyroid and eye problems on all levels, not just the physical. Her journey included homeopaths and naturopaths, traditional shamans and modern energy healers, osteopaths and acupuncturists, hypnotherapists and natural vision teachers, as well as conventional modern medicine. She took part in a personal growth and leadership program with Phoenix II Seminars. She learned Reiki energy healing and took classes with the Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI), the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Mother Sarita, Miguel Ruiz’s mother. She read lots of books and really loved one entitled The Reluctant Shaman by Kaye Cordell Whitaker. Jasmine’s formal explorations were put somewhat on hold in 1996, by the birth of her son Julian. However, her informal explorations were enhanced 100 fold as she started learning to apply Toltec principles to the task of parenting, even before she had heard of the Toltec work. Julian has ended up being one of her greatest teachers.

Jasmine’s journey on the Toltec Path began in early 2001 when she moved to Santa Rosa to help create a cohousing community in Cotati where she now lives. Soon afterwards, Spirit guided her to the Wisdom Circle of Toltec Master Allan Hardman. Here she discovered something that she had not found in the other paths she had studied up until that time: the element of unconditional love and acceptance. She realized how emotionally shut down she was, how filled with judgments, and how much her mind was controlling her actions. With intense courage and commitment, she started learning to trust Spirit instead of her mind. She began awakening to how she was completely responsible for her own happiness. She apprenticed with Allan for approximately 1-1/2 years and participated in power journeys to sacred sites in Teotihuacan, Mexico and Peru before moving on to work with other teachers.

Through Jasmine’s studies with Allan, it became easier and easier for her to hear Spirit’s call instead of listening to the fears generated by her mind. When Spirit called her to join Miguel Ruiz’s three-year Intensive Dreaming program in San Diego in mid-2002, she didn’t question it. This was a huge leap of faith for her at the time because she hated driving and had rarely driven more than a few miles at a time. During the program she started driving the 60 miles to and from the Oakland airport every month as well as doing significantly more day-to-day driving. By the end of the year, Jasmine could no longer let her fears hold her back from creating her dream of helping others to do what she had done. Spirit’s call had become too strong to resist. In January, 2003, she started facilitating classes and later that year assisted in a weekend workshop with Brandt Morgan. Her favorite part of the Toltec work is the experiential and energetic processes, such as Recapitulation Breathing and Dreaming. She feels that these tools, combined with the unconditional love and acceptance from the teachers, are what makes the Toltec path much more powerful than any other similar spiritual path that she has explored. In 2004, she created Spirit Gold: a unique synthesis of the Toltec teachings and the various energy healing techniques she has learned and taught herself. Information on the wide variety of ways that other teachers offer the Toltec work can be found at http://www.tolteccalendar.org.

Jasmine is also pursing another passion: her passion for community building. Along with her artist partner Sterling Hoffmann, she has created the Hands of Gold Healing Clinic, a community of healers who provide the opportunity for everyone to explore different healing modalities and find the healers and modalities that resonate with them.

Jasmine loves the continuing process of getting in touch with her true self through exploring and releasing old beliefs. She would love to support you in doing the same. In the words of don Miguel Ruiz, “If I can do it, you can too.”

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