Rev. Joya is on a mission to shift how people think about and go through grief and loss, and what it means to live as an embodied and awakening human.
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What I love to speak about:
"The Psychedelic Nature of Grief: How Loss Rewires You for Awakening"
For: Grief professionals, wellness conferences, women's leadership events, Spiritual Events, Churches
The Problem:
We live in a grief-avoidant society that expects people to "bounce back" quickly. But research shows that 1 in 5 adults is processing significant loss right now, and without the right tools, grief becomes suffering.
The Solution:
Drawing from 33 years of healing work and the loss of my own son, I reveal what neuroscience is now proving: the grieving brain looks identical to a brain on psychedelics. Both dissolve ego, expand consciousness, and create the conditions for transformation, if you know how to work with it.
What Attendees Learn:
The 5 research-backed practices that transform grief into awakening
A self-compassion tool you can use immediately
How to stay present with pain without creating a "double wound"
Why post-traumatic transformation is real, permanent, and available to everyone
Outcome: Attendees leave with a completely reframed understanding of grief as spiritual technology, plus practical tools to support themselves and others through loss.
"The Luminous Path: 7 Stages from Breaking Open to Becoming"
For: Leadership conferences, women's events, transformation summits, corporate wellness
The Hook:
Everyone talks about transformation. Few understand how it actually works. Drawing from ancient mystical wisdom, modern neuroscience, and my own journey through devastating loss, I've mapped the seven stages every soul walks when moving from who they were to who they're becoming.
What Makes This Different:
This isn't the "hero's journey." This isn't "5 steps to success."
This is the ACTUAL map of transformation, whether you're:
Navigating loss
Reinventing your career
Answering a calling
Building something new
Becoming who you're meant to be
What Attendees Learn:
Where they are RIGHT NOW on the path (and what that stage requires)
The specific challenge and gift of each stage
How to work WITH transformation instead of resisting it
Why trying to skip stages always backfires
Practices to support each stage of becoming
The Outcome:
Attendees walk away with a complete roadmap for ANY transformation they're navigating, plus the tools to move through it with clarity, grace, and power.
JOYA Speaks + Offers Sonic Meditation Experiences
After a brief talk, I then guide people in the experience I just talked about through sound + guided meditation.
I have been blessed to offer meditations and sound baths to companies such as EWomen Network,
COX Communications Leadership Retreat, PSI Seminars Leadership Retreat, Desert Financial Savings,
Free Arts AZ, Mindfulness First & more.