An underworld doula with dark skin, makeup, and tattoos, wearing jewelry, dressed in black, with large blue flowers behind their head and foreground, striking a contemplative pose.

samar jade.

BLACK, FAT, GENDER EXPANSIVE, DISABLED

Teacher, birth worker, shadowholder, writer, creative, parent, friend. These identities collectively inform my work as the Ensoulment Doula.

Decorative ornate gold-framed mirror with a black background and handwritten white text that says, "You are the authority you seek."

The Ensoulment Doula is the hand you find within Holy Darkness on your path through Sacred Shadow Work™.

I am with you, as you call your Soul to your Self. I provide support during the journey to reclaiming your sovereignty. I assist in your discovery of how to nurture that which is ready to be witnessed within your Sacred Shadow. I am here as an oracle, as a mirror, to help you process your expansion. You are in charge of your re-membering process. I am here to aid in your re-birthing.

about samar jade

I am the creatrix of the Ensouling Quintessence and Sacred Shadow Work and am the author of Blue Violet: Haint Spaces.

  • I am a trained in the modalities of psychic mediumship, tarot, and astrology. I am a certified trauma-informed somatic practitioner through the Focalizing Institute and am a Mental Health First Aider. I am in training to be a certified Full Spectrum Doula with Birthing Advocacy Training (BADT).

  • My academic background is in teaching classical singing technique and music history. My research interests while in pursuit of my PhD were Mad Studies, Music Disability Studies, and Afrofuturism within Queer Black Music. I have a very rich and varied background of training that grants me a unique lens.

  • My spiritual lineage is Hoodoo. Some of my mentors and teachers include: Joy KMT, Mambo Liz of Big Liz Conjure, Arias Ethaniel, Papa Luis of Casa de Juju, Rebecca Padgett, Lindsay Mack, Althea Sebastiani, Captolia Eaton, Joanna Miller, Nick Weber, Duna Haller, and Mariola Rosario.

client love

“I am a wordsmith yet find it difficult to encapsulate what beauty and empowerment Samar's offerings and containers provide in any articulate sense. Their spaces are not of this galaxy, and/also grounded in the pleasant presence of the present tense. It has been an honor to witness their ongoing emergence as the deeply intense and intensely deep mystic they are, and will continue to be along a vibrant cosmic spectrum of personal and collective evolution.”

Lily of the Valley