about

Jasmine Virdi (she/her) is a writer, educator, lyric essayist, activist, integrative somatic coach, and lover of this earthly existence. She is based between the beloved lands and peoples of Cyprus and Mexico. Of multicultural heritage, with an Indian father and a Cypriot-Italian mother, she identifies as a brown mixed-race woman, intimately familiar with the generative discomfort of in-between places.

Her creative and written work explores plant medicines, spirituality, deep ecology, Indigenous and more-than-human rights, reworlding, and liberatory praxis. Her writing has appeared in DoubleBlind Magazine, Open Democracy, and the Chacruna Institute. She is also a contributing author of the book chapter “Psychedelics and Death: Transitioning from this World with Consciousness” in Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices (Synergetic Press, 2024).

Holding an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Jasmine offers private coaching and mentorship. As an advocate for decolonising healing practices, she integrates earth-based wisdom with somatic, trauma-informed approaches that honour both body and spirit.

Over the years, she has collaborated with numerous non-profits and mission-driven organisations, offering consultancy, education, operations, and communications support. She also spent two years volunteering with Fireside Project, providing peer support to individuals in crisis and those seeking integration.

Her monthly newsletter, Foraged Wisdom, gathers insights on world-building amidst systems collapse, weaving together animism, earth-based wisdom, grief work, decolonisation, magic, and the richness of the human spirit.

Currently, Jasmine works with the Dutch non-profit OPEN Foundation as Professional Events Coordinator, curating ongoing educational offerings for clinicians, researchers, and practitioners committed to ethics and best practices in psychedelic-assisted care.

Her life’s prayer is to be of service, to the people and places she is beholden to, to her clients, to the land, and through her words and actions. She holds a deep commitment to tending human hearts, more-than-human kin, and to our shared future. Often slipping away into the wilderness, she can be found wherever birds are singing or communing with bodies of water.