Dr Jet Eveleth

Dr. Jet Eveleth is a faculty member at the Esalen Institute and founder of Clown Church. She teaches at the crossroads of mindfulness and mischief. She would love to bring your listeners a completely fresh perspective on how embarrassment, play, and humor can be our fastest entry points to spiritual awakening.

Her career began on the road, where she first fell in love with improvisation while touring with The Second City, which ultimately led to her role as a clown in the cirque show Absinthe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Afterward, a stretch of working in television left her feeling disconnected and lost, prompting a search for meaning that took her somewhere comedians usually do not go. She studied breathwork in the Pyrenees with Wim Hof and meditation with Eckhart Tolle, eventually earning her doctorate in Integrative Medicine, becoming a professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and completing her postgraduate work on meditation at Harvard Medical School. Along this path, she discovered that her journey into the healing arts led her right back to the one thing she has always loved: clowning around. The final result of her experiences is a practice that treats laughter as medicine and play as a path home.

Today, she blends somatic medicine with the art of physical play through her workshops and retreats called “Sacred Clown.” She teaches people how to drop out of their analytical minds and back into their bodies to heal isolation and shame. Her work was recently featured in The Los Angeles Times and the cover story of New York Magazine.

Dr. Eveleth is open to discussing a wide variety of topics, including:

• Laughter as Neurological Medicine: How physical vulnerability and somatic play reset a dysregulated nervous system.
• The Split Brain: How to navigate the "Actor," "Writer," and "Director" minds to escape overthinking and immediately access a creative flow state.
• Why Self-Care Isn't Enough: How "ensemble" and collective connection cure modern loneliness better than isolated healing practices.