Jocelyn Valencia

Jocelyn Valencia is a meditation and breathwork teacher, writer and podcaster whose work centres on gratitude, journaling and honest self-inquiry. She studied global studies, with a focus on human rights and social movements, at the University of Arizona, then trained as a breathwork, yin yoga and meditation teacher at Loka Yoga School, later adding Nonviolent Communication, study of prayer at Agape International Spiritual Center and cacao ceremony training.

Her YouTube channel, with Jocelyn, holds hundreds of videos, many of them guided journaling sessions with prompts for birthdays, the turn of the year, self-love, inner-child shadow work and the new and full moons, as well as two thirty-day journaling journeys, one on change and one on gratitude. She also hosts Starting with Gratitude, a podcast of conversations that open by naming something to be thankful for, now past a hundred episodes, and she writes a journal on Substack. On Insight Timer she shares short practices for intention setting, cord cutting and morning prayer. She sees herself as a companion for people going through change, and her teaching keeps returning to one idea: insight matters only when it is lived.