Meet The Team
Our Founders
Stephanie Urbina Jones & Jeremy Pajer
Jeremy and Stephanie are committed to helping individuals discover themselves, heal, and grow. They empower those seeking a life of personal freedom, passion, and purpose.
Stephanie and Jeremy have spent over 45 years in combined pursuit of their personal freedom. They have studied, prayed, worked hard, and explored different paths to heal and create a life filled with humility, passion, and purpose. Throughout their lives, they have encountered various challenges and obstacles but have persevered by turning over every stone on the road and in their hearts.
Having undergone a personal journey of healing and continuous transformation, they were inspired to share their experiences and uplift others who are on the path of wellness and higher consciousness.
They are driven by a deep sense of purpose to serve as compassionate guides, witnesses, and teachers for those seeking to heal and find their own passion, purpose, and transformation on their life journey. Through their years of experience in the healing profession, they have discovered that these modalities and tools are some of the most powerful for promoting mind, body, and spirit healing and growth.
Jeremy and Stephanie are on a mission to spread the light of their powerful healing ways and transformational journeys to the world, enlightening and uplifting all those who seek it.
Stephanie Urbina Jones
Co- Founder & Artist of Life
Stephanie Urbina Jones is a powerful dreamer and artist of life. Once this shamama sets her intent on something, she almost always brings it to life and has fun doing it. She is a visionary seer and regularly walks between the worlds. She considers this normal and believes she has an army of Mexican angels (led by her Abuelita Virginia) that guides and guards her life and career.
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Born in San Antonio and raised in small-town Fredericksburg, Texas, she has never met a stranger. Her first job was picking peaches, and her first date was coon hunting. She still loves the great outdoors and the simple things in life. She is living her dreams full tilt boogie every day, working on songs, albums, books, tours, ceremonies, time with her family, or journeys around the world. She is enjoying her life now more than ever.
Stephanie lives on the river outside Nashville, TN, with her beloved daughter Zeta, husband Jeremy, their little white buffalo medicine dog Lulu, puppy Gypsy, and moody cat Bolt. She loves getting snowed in and any chance to be with her family.
She wrote her first song when her high school boyfriend broke up with her, and she never looked back. She loves her dad, Uncle Rudy, mariachi, and her Mexican roots. She spends a few months a year south of the border leading journeys, making music, playing, trying on dresses, or just hanging with her family of friends.
She loves besame red lipstick (just like her Abuelita,) listening to music, eating nachos, daydreaming, meditating, going days without makeup, sipping coffee on the river in her pajamas, and leading sacred journeys. She believes in supporting the artists she loves and is always paying off a new piece of art from her favorite painter, Emily Grieves, sculptor Alberto Hernandez, or a designer piece of clothing.
She loves sweat lodges, healing massages, traveling, and fabulous hotels. She doesn’t cook and is so grateful for Uber Eats worldwide. She has a passion for helping people and their dreams grow. She is not afraid of her, or your, darkness. She was born to hold sacred witness for others as they bloom through their pain and find their purpose.
One of the greatest gifts in the last ten years was becoming a Toltec teacher and co-founding Freedom Folk and Soul. She cherishes her deep connection with her tribe of transformation.
Stephanie made history on the Grand Ole Opry, had a song she wrote win The Voice, is a best-selling author, travels and tours all over the world with her Honky Tonk Mariachis, and is just getting started. She is a junkie for healers and works with two mediums and several renowned shamans, and she continues to learn and carry indigenous healing ways herself.
She is finally coming out of the shaman closet with Shaman Heart. She is a reiki master and loves to see how the spirit moves through different healing modalities. Stephanie believes it all comes down to being a messenger of love. She spreads and makes magic everywhere she goes.
Jeremy Pajer
Co-Founder and Master of Transformation
Jeremy Pajer is truly a master of transformation and a leader in the field of personal freedom. He has spent 20+ years dedicating his life to spiritual growth and the healing arts. He has a practical, down-to-earth, fun, and loving approach to transformation and helping people embrace their humanity.
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Jeremy shares his wisdom, creativity, and playfulness as an Ordained Minister of the Healing Arts, Master Breathwork Facilitator, Toltec Teacher, and Personal Freedom Coach. He brings his love and knowledge of Firewalking, breathwork, Native American ceremony, Toltec wisdom, 12-step traditions, and shamanic practices to people through leading firewalks, pouring sweat lodges, facilitating workshops in the U.S.A. and abroad, and coaching people on their individual path of freedom. He has studied with many masters from many traditions.
Jeremy is passionate about his work with the Toltec Mysteries. He has continued to move deeper into the Toltec path as a Toltec dreamer and mentor over the last 20 years. He apprenticed, studied, and became a Toltec Dreamer, including advanced, intensive training over six years with a teacher of indigenous Toltec traditions, as presented by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Jeremy has been certified as a Firewalking Instructor by Master Firewalker Peggy Dylan, who has been teaching firewalking instructors for 30+ years around the world. He has been leading and guiding people through firewalks for 18 years.
In addition, Jeremy’s experience as Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor and Certified Challenge/Ropes Course/Adventure-Based Facilitator helped mold his teaching style into making transformation more fun and interactive. He has co-founded, owned, and worked at several recovery treatment programs and spiritual retreat centers.
Jeremy spent seven years working in the mental health and recovery field at The Ranch, a treatment facility located in central Tennessee. He then became one of the founding members of Laughing Winds, a spiritual retreat center also located in central Tennessee. For a long time, Jeremy had dreamed of creating a place where he could share the healing power of community that had worked wonders for him. In addition to this, he co-founded and served as the Chief Operations Officer for Integrative Life Center in Nashville, TN. Later on, he founded Recovery Compass in Nashville, TN, where he acted as the Chief Executive Officer.
In 2017, Jeremy co-founded Freedom Folk and Soul, where he is a visionary and lead facilitator of powerful and transformative workshops. He guides people on their journey of self-discovery and self-healing all over the world.
Jeremy is passionate about teaching people how to find their own wisdom and embrace their own humanity. He is practical and purposeful yet gentle, kind, and authentic. He is a leader, a teacher, and a healer, yet he is forever a student, vulnerable and curious and always evolving.
Jeremy is both masculine and feminine. He is stable and free-flowing, determined and protective, agile and nurturing.
“I would love to invite you into a dream. A dream of abundance, love, joy, and beauty. Where everything in life brings you such gratitude, and you know that the world is how it should be. A dream where you meet the world with such love and acceptance that you know everything is okay. A dream where you say yes to life without fear and never regret your choices. You accept yourself so tenderly without judgment because you know you are life loving life. A dream where you have the power to manifest whatever you want in your life because you say so. A dream with such passion and creativity that you only ask yourself, “How will I create my dream today?”
This dream may seem like it is not possible, but inside you exists all the wisdom to create the most wonderful dream. How would you choose to live your life if you knew anything was possible? I would love to help guide you through all the beliefs that stand in the way of you dreaming this dream. I believe that we have the power to change our beliefs about how we see the world and how we see ourselves. We have invested our faith in a belief system of fear and limitation. If we have the power to dream a life of fear and limitation, and there’s not enough (time, money, or energy), then we have that same power to create a life of love, abundance, and acceptance. So, I invite you to take a chance at freedom.” ~ Jeremy
Tina Green
Co-Facilitator and Sacred Guide
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Reverend Annie Mark
Co-Creator & Facilitator: Ministerial Training
Rev. Annie Mark is a best-selling author, Interfaith and Shamanic Minister, Wedding Officiant, Master Ceremonialist, Certified Contemplative Musician, Shamanic Breathwork Master Facilitator, Singer-Songwriter, Harpist, Guitarist, and performing and recording artist.
Annie is a Co-Creator and Co-Teacher of Freedom Folk and Soul’s Experiential Ministerial Training program. She was also a contributing author to the Amazon bestseller “Shaman Heart – Turning Pain into Passion and Purpose.”
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She is the creator of Singing in the Sacred, an active, experiential practice that uses singing, music, and silence to clear our minds and tune in to our truest and most authentic selves.
She is the creator of the “Meet Me In the Mess” support group, the creator of “Build a Song, Build a Story” experiential writing workshops, and she leads women’s support groups, including empowerment and dream circles, and brings her heartfelt reverence and expertise to each ceremony, workshop, or offering, honoring as sacred all of life’s many phases, stages, and passages.
Mary Thomas
Executive Assistant
Mary expertly handles all details related to registration for our Journeys and Trainings. She has experienced many of Freedom Folk and Soul’s programs in including The Toltec Medicine Wheel of Transformation and Ministerial Training.
Mary began her pursuit of personal growth and development shortly after starting college. Along with a cohort of other curious and growth-minded students, she was taken under the wing of a dedicated college professor and introduced to a wide range of tools and philosophies.
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She has hungered for growth ever since and pursued many avenues, including yoga, meditation, ayurveda, Buddhism, and studying astrology. It wasn’t until Mary found breathwork that she finally found the tool to give her access to her trauma so she could begin working with it. Mary is profoundly grateful for this and her teachers. Mary is a Shamanic Minister and Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator and is Reiki I, II, and III certified.
Ruth Souther
Co-Creator & Facilitator: Alchemy: A New Earth Priestess Mystery School
Ruth Souther has practiced in the Metaphysical & Natural arts for 35 years. She is a Master Facilitator, Master Reiki Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Ritualist, and Minister. She co-facilitates with Stephanie Urbina Jones Alchemy: A New Earth Priestess Mystery School.
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She wrote The Heart of Tarot (an intuitive guide to the cards), Vega’s Path: The Elemental Priestess, and three novels: Death of Innocence, Surrender of Ego, and Rise of Rebellion. The fourth, Obsession of Love, is forthcoming. She is the Writing Wrangler for the Shaman Heart book series.
She is an Initiated Priestess through Diana’s Grove and has taught with the Reclaiming Collective of San Francisco at Missouri and Texas Witch Camps. She has studied Tarot and Astrology since 1990, teaches many classes in both subjects and provides readings in person and online.
Ruth created Vega’s Path Priestess Process, which has been ongoing since 2012. She is a facilitating member of The Edge of Perception and The Sanctuary of Formative Spirituality—a NFP spiritual organization. She is a contributing author and board member/Chief Editor of Crystal Heart Imprints. This independent co-operative press supports and guides authors in their creative projects.
Sherrie Phillips-Guzman
Co-Facilitator
Sherrie Phillips-Guzman was the first to bring Freedom Folk and Soul’s Toltec Sacred Journey Breathwork to California, and she has been a portal to many community members. She has participated in the Toltec Medicine Wheel of Transformation and has apprenticed, and she is now Master Apprenticing and Guest Teaching in Teotihuacan, Mexico. She has also led co-led a spiritual journey to Oaxaca, Mexico with Freedom Folk and Soul.
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Sherrie Phillips Guzman is the founder of Your Zen Matters. She has over 35 years of experience in the healing arts. Sherrie has trained and as a certified life coach, She is an ordained shamanic minister, spiritual adventurist, Breathwork facilitator, Massage therapist and Grief support specialist. Sherrie is a number one best-selling author and is deeply dedicated to serving those who wish to transform their pain into purpose. She can be found at www.yourzenmatters.com or your.zen.matters on Instagram and Yourzenmatters on Facebook.
Born and raised in a small town, Sebastopol, California, Sherrie’s journey is a testament to resilience. Her first job was picking apples alongside migrant workers, a testament to her determination to help her family. Despite the hardships, she found solace in the outdoors and the simple things in life. Today, she is living her best life, a successful author, musician, and healer. She leads healing retreats and spends quality time with her family.
Sherrie lives just outside San Fransico with her beloved daughters Lillie (14) and Anaya (10 months old), her stepsons Isaac and Daniel (20), her wife Yolanda, their fierce guardian dog Charli, and their cat Luna. As a family, they blend cultures of Sherrie’s methodist hippy spiritualist upbringing and Yolanda’s indigenous Mexican roots, teaching their children connection, ritual, and how to honor many different paths.
She loves sleepy Sunday mornings, singing, and creating gatherings for her friends and family.
She loves swimming, hiking, singing, camping, and cooking. She has always had a passion for helping people and creating a safe container in which to grow and heal. She is no stranger to loss and grief, having lost her mother and many others starting
Dana Gussoff
Board Member
Bio coming soon.