SOULS Church

Josie is a Guardian with SOULS who just finished massage school and is about to start her own bodywork practice with the gifts she has cultivated. Who are you now compared to when you first started working with the medicine? I was definitely in a really rough place when I first came to SOULS and started this medicine work. I had an idea of what I was looking for, but I didn't really know how to get there. I was very unrooted. I started the work by going to back-to-back ceremonies for about...

Jake sat in his first ceremony this month, May 2026. After time in the military and decades of disconnection from the heart, he has found a love within greater than ever imagined. It’s all in my heart. Since the ceremony, there’s been this beautiful feeling awakening inside me — this overwhelming sense of love in the most beautiful way. More than anything, I feel immense gratitude: gratitude for the journey, but also, for the first time in my life, gratitude for myself. I’ve realized that...

Tobin Marsh has led an adventurous, unconventional life. Raised six years in Japan, from a young age he felt drawn to different cultures and questions of human suffering. Tobin answered his early spiritual longings through extensive solo travels, wilderness backpacking, hopping freight trains, and long journeys on foot through remote corners of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China. He has degrees in International Affairs and a Master’s in Theology. For 25 years Tobin was a devout Quaker. His...