Jackie Paulson: yoga, healing, inspired living.

Jackie Paulson: yoga, healing, inspired living. Jackie Paulson is a Counselor, writer, intimacy coach, Body Temple Dance facilitator and has been teaching yoga since 2012. Come on up and say Hi!

She has almost 20 years of experience in the helping field and offers a holistic approach to therapy that really works. Jackie opened {be}Studio to offer the community a deeply intentional studio that is rooted in the foundations of the practice and offers classes and services that will bring people to experience a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives - to realize that you are worthy and capable to achieve your goals - physical, mental or spiritual. The studio space is designed to be a sanctuary of joy and a soft place to land - whether it be hanging out with some friends or finding comfort in the silence of your mat. All of the teachers, classes, programs and offerings are intelligently designed to assist you in finding your self. One of our studio guides (or should we say, INSPIRATIONALISTS) will be sure to have some tea and a smile waiting for you. We guide individuals and communities to thrive through creative and purposeful practices. Our mission is fueled by our passion to assist our students in fulfilling the meaning and purpose in their lives. We strive to offer our students authentic interaction and a real world approach to life. Come see how we can assist you on your journey to vibrant living.

Tonight, Pluto, with the crescent moon as my witness,I welcome you as my lover.If you have come to break down my door,Se...
11/05/2025

Tonight, Pluto, with the crescent moon as my witness,
I welcome you as my lover.
If you have come to break down my door,
See, I have opened it,
And wait here for you at its threshold.
If you have come to tear off my clothes,
I have flung them aside already,
And stand naked, shivering gladly.
If you have come to hurl me into the abyss,
Watch now, as I release all false supports, one by one,
And fall toward you in ecstasy.
Hear this, Pluto, lord of transformative fire:
What you have come to take from me, I offer you.

Poem by © Jennifer Welwood

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My soul in one photo, one poem. I came here to play. Wild, deep, loving, transformative, infinite play. And I won’t forget it. Who are you? 🖤

11/03/2025

I’ll be seeing some of you here in a very short five months. Flights are looking 👌 right now and all you need to do is get here. We will take care of the rest.

4 have already said yes!

4 more beautiful humans are being called in.

A very intimate retreat full of nourishing movement, play and rest.

I know once the weather shifts here in Iowa. These spots will get scooped up. You in? 🫰🏼

This year I am committing to living more and learning less.  All of my lessons have come in the actually LIVING.  I have...
11/01/2025

This year I am committing to living more and learning less.  All of my lessons have come in the actually LIVING.  I have read my fair share of books and podcasts, studying theories and practices and all of that has served me well.  But this year, I am not looking ahead - doing more to get somewhere where I will finally “reach” the life I desire.  I have officially arrived….So much of my last twenty years of being in this psycho-spiritual somatic work with teachers and communities has led me to this point that feels so pivotal in my life.  After many years of working and learning, I am resting back into the receptivity of it all - ready to share even more of my gifts and skills than ever before.  I will always be supported as a person who works with the lives of others.  I will never stop learning and/or growing. 
 
2025 became the year that I let myself REALLY RECEIVE and I am not quitting, 2026 I go deeper into expressing all the gratitude possible for everything that diligent practice and relentless devotion has graced into my life.  
 
I AM RECEIVING NOW! 
 
 And it is thanks to the practices that I am sharing with you every day in our community and beyond.  
 
I want to celebrate with you, live with you, show you that by leaning into our desires and pleasures …. leaning into beauty and mutual care and community….the Divine Wholeness is RIGHT HERE inside of it all.
 
It isn’t always about more.  But for some of us, wanting more can be so scary.  It’s ok to do it afraid.  It’s ok to entertain what is possible and we’re here to support you in cultivating that inner power and capacity for you to also RECEIVE fully what is likely right here waiting for you. 

 
COSTA RICA 2026 will be here soon - MARCH (already over half full!). 
HERE FOR YOU!

10/31/2025

What is the one thing we are the most afraid of?
Something I see “spooking” people the most is the fullness of themselves! Living with their heart wide open, letting love, joy, happiness, and receiving in to their lives fully!

As great as that all sounds- it’s some real scary s**t to let life be good. To rest back into something bigger that holds us all and receive enjoyment.

Which is why The Joy of Living Retreat is such a gift!!!
To say yes to you. To allow yourself a FELT sense of joy.
To let yourself touch how good it can be.
To feel alive through adventure.
To let your senses come online and breathe in the ease that is our birthright…. WOW!!

This retreat is intended for you if
🗡️ You notice yourself being scared of receiving (or if it is easier to give than receive)
🗡️ If it has been hard to enjoy life lately
🗡️ If you notice yourself wanting to control everything
🗡️ if you feel flat, tired, or disconnected from your vitality
⚔️ if you are looking for liberation from those shackles ⚔️

We have 4 spots left
Dm me for more info or to register!

10/28/2025

Imagine every morning walking out to this quiet low tide of the mother ocean after a peaceful nights sleep in a cozy bed, greeted with guanacaste coffee and a homemade breakfast. Good friends, solo time and gorgeous yoga, meditation and pleasure filled experiences await you!!! We only have 4 spaces left and as the darkness emerges on us in the Iowa and temps drop…im sure these spots will go fast. Curious, dm us for more details. All you have to do is get to the airport and we take care of the rest!

10/27/2025

Sound on! 🔊 Fall mornings with the ancestors. Scorpio season is here. ✨

10/23/2025

The night before we left for Costa Rica I laid in bed thinking “What am I doing?!  I don’t want to leave my kids.  I have everything I need here.  I don’t need to travel the world.  How selfish of me….all I want is my family, my home and my kids!  This is crazy.  I am not doing these retreats anymore.  I am done with traveling.”   
 
I don’t let those voices ultimately dictate my future, instead just loved on my ego and the parts of me that would rather stay small than expand into something more - something uncertain.  
 
Then as we drove down into the long driveway of our Villa in Punta Islita, meeting Yanan our host and him opening the doors to the ocean and mountain view - I literally cried and my inner child WOKE UP!  
 
The joy and creativity was unstoppable from that point on.  Throughout our. next week on these sacred lands, playing in the ocean waves and connecting with the beautiful souls that arrived both from the states as well as the local people of Guanacaste, my heart was transformed.  
 
I remembered so much of who I am and why I am here.  Everything all of a sudden made more sense and clarity whooshed in like a sea breeze in the morning.  
 
And I realized in those moments in Costa Rica that some of us really need the space and change of scenery to activate that part of our brain that get’s creatively blocked by the mundane tasks and familiar layouts of our day to day life (which I love btw - see first paragraph) but found that taking these times outs and investing mine and my family’s resources on adventures such as this one (without my children, without my spouse), gives me an opportunity to really just embrace ME.  
 
Especially as a mother, householder and caregiver/healer/community worker in so many ways - it is imperative.  Now I am budgeting for it and prioritizing it.  Not as something “only if we have extra” but as something ESSENTIAL to my SOUL HEALTH which inevitable feeds into my mental and physical well being as well.  
 
our second annual Costa Rica JOY OF LIVING retreat is in just 5 months!! and can’t wait to bring you there (maybe some of you again!). There are only a few spots. DM us with questions! 💞

10/23/2025

Becoming a therapist was a way I carried forth my gift turned trauma response. When I first started college - my first major was communications. I went from a planned career of expression and being seen to disappearing in order to hear others. Both are beautiful. I’m REALLY GOOD at what I do. I’ve been learning for years of practice how to balance letting myself be in the room with the other. I’m approaching this fall so differently than others. Prioritizing my play more than ever before. Im taking off my lifeguard vest and jumping in with the rest of you fools. Letting go of needing to be “the holder” and just swimming alongside of the rest of humanity. 💦💦🍂🍂🍂💞💞💞 more coming in my Substack later today. Just got paid people - I’ll get into my journaling this morning reflecting on self righteousness as solitary confinement.

Last night I gathered with the women from HOME group. I cherish this monthly meet up. It was something that I didn’t o...
10/17/2025

Last night I gathered with the women from HOME group. I cherish this monthly meet up. It was something that I didn’t offer to the public, just those who have circled with me before. I don’t have to share it with the world…it’s an intimate sweet gathering of people who choose to show up without expectation and we get to just be with other women - all who happen to be mothers of a variety of ages that get to contend with the times we are in. In our conversations last night, the topic of “healing” came up. What it really is and if it is really possible. Presencing with simple pleasures, beauty and play, I have now come to find, is the most “healing” energy we engage with.

I, too, have gone down rabbit holes of healing in my life and at times, it was helpful and others, it actually created more harm. I spent time away from living thinking I had to fix myself and “be better” in order to LIVE. I am so happy that I am now at a place in my life where I do not feel compelled to heal or fix any part of me. I do still have frustrating parts that I encounter, but I don’t have an anxiety or pressure to “get somewhere” on my path “to enlightenment”. I love contemplating my death bed moment and it helps clarify to me what really matters. And answering huge questions or getting to an idealized version of what it means to be “whole” will not be on the priority list. I don’t actually care how actualized you become or how actualized I become. I used to think that I had to really find out who I was to live and realized I was missing myself the whole time. Because I have always been right here.

All of you is welcome here and that is why Carmen and I have created the Costa Rica retreat “The Joy of Living”. We know saying YES to being alive and LIVING out our dreams is often the most healing thing we can do for ourselves. And we want you to come with us and ENJOY your life, not just spend your time “fixing it”.

THERE ARE ONLY 4 SPACES left for our COSTA RICA RETREAT!

Message us today if you are interested and any questions you might have. We can’t wait to jet off with you to enjoy some time in the sun in the jungles of this beautiful land.

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