Laura May PJ, MDiv

I’m a Tantric Buddhist chaplain, astrologer, artist, dancer and longtime bodyworker.

My heart intention in this life is to support the evolution of Dharma in the West by midwifing real experiences of spiritual intimacy and belonging outside institutional boxes.

I offer meaningful support, accountability, and practical skills transmission through spiritual counsel, intimacy + sex coaching, and arts-based ritual craft.

My practices focus on subtle body/mind attunement and working with eros and creativity as sources of guiding spiritual intelligence.  

I have practiced Vajrayana Buddhism for 20 years and have deep practices in Butoh, ritual theater, somatics and expressive arts therapies. I have worked as a hospice chaplain, astrologer, ritual facilitator and bodyworker.

I help people who are:

~ Struggling with major life transitions, loss, and change

~ Feeling stuck with deep spirals that have resisted years of traditional therapy and need more existential firepower

~ Opening to their own erotic embodiment and bumping up against shame, fear, and religious conditioning that needs. to. go.

While I work with people from multiple and no religious/spiritual backgrounds, I have greater expertise and hence resource working with folks with some threads to Indic traditions, Buddhism, Christianity & Christian mysticism, animism and the arts.

Education + Creds

Naropa University, Master of Divinity: Buddhist theology, chaplaincy + ritual studies

Somatica Institute: Intimacy + Sex Coach Training Graduate

Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner: nature + body-based expressive arts and ritual training

Feeding Your Demons Facilitator: A Shamanic practice drawing from Tibetan Chöd tradition

Core Synchronism Practioner: 6+ year course of study in gross and subtle body anatomy and healing

Licensed Massage Therapist: 13 years and thousands of bodies~ an honor and forever training

Tulane University, BA: Political Economy. Before I kept almost dying I was going into environmental law.