About Jess

We know what it's like to enter a room and feel the need to become smaller.

Jessica Metayer founded Jess Breathe and Flow to create the culturally affirming spaces she needed but never found, where people of color can drop the mask, breathe deep, and be who they were always meant to be.

Jessica Metayer, founder of Jess Breathe and Flow

Credentials & experience

  • MS in Organization Development, Pepperdine Graziadio
  • 500-hour yoga teacher training
  • GPS (Group Peer Support) Trained Facilitator
  • Graduate research with 15 Black executive leaders
  • International consulting across the U.S., France, Costa Rica, and Japan
  • Lead facilitator, Appreciative Inquiry large-group workshop for Workday (Costa Rica)
  • Co-designer and facilitator, three-day large-scale culture change engagement for BCon's human capital management team (Japan)
  • Lead facilitator, City of Lyon Ecological Transition Team (France)
  • Consulting engagement with International Justice Mission (Washington, DC)
  • 5 years facilitating healing circles in community
  • 650+ classes, circles, and workshops led since 2021, reaching 4,400+ participant visits
  • 17 community and civic partners
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Jessica at her Pepperdine graduate school graduation

Philosophy & POV

What I believe

I believe healing was never meant to be something you have to earn, translate, or perform your way into.

For a long time, the wellness industry has asked people of color to either shrink themselves to fit rooms that weren't built for them, or pay a premium for spaces that finally see them. I don't think either should be the cost of rest.

My approach blends what the research confirms with what my community has always known: that a nervous system settles fastest in the presence of people who already understand you, that breathwork is both ancient practice and measurable physiology, that healing happens in circles because that is where verification lives when institutions withhold it.

I lead from a place that is scientifically soulful: grounded in what the body and the data both show, delivered with the warmth of people who have always known how to hold each other. I am not interested in wellness that asks you to assimilate. I am interested in the kind that asks you to come home.

Enter as you. Emerge as your Self.

That's the whole practice. Come find the experience that meets you where you are.

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