Hi, I’m Lela Jaacks, your lovely energetic re-alignment specialist, artist, and creator of Lighten Up With Lela.

My work is rooted in a simple idea: there is a natural lightness that lives beneath everything we carry.

Through my unique blend of Bioenergetics, Human Design, and Aromatherapy, I help women become curious about the patterns that may be keeping them disconnected from themselves - especially the subtle patterns of over-giving, self-doubt, accommodating, and overriding their own needs.

Together, we slow down, tune in, and begin noticing what your body, energy, and unique design are communicating. Rather than trying to fix who you are, we explore what might be getting in the way of you fully experiencing who you already are.

Because you and your body matter just as much as everyone else you’ve been holding.

A lifelong relationship with nature

I was born in Cairns, Australia, and spent my early childhood in the remote tropical landscape of northern Queensland. I lived surrounded by rainforest, traveled by canoe across a crocodile-inhabited river to attend school, and grew up immersed in a world where beauty, unpredictability, interconnection, and survival existed side by side.

Those early experiences gave me a profound relationship with the natural world. I learned, long before I had words for it, to notice patterns, rhythms, subtle shifts, and the constant pulse between change and balance.

When I moved to America at eight years old, nature became a source of comfort and belonging. It connected me to the home and mother I had left behind and helped me navigate the enormous transition of growing up between two worlds.

That relationship with nature still shapes everything I do.

I believe our bodies and lives have rhythms, too. And sometimes, like nature, we don't need to be forced into becoming something different. We need the space, awareness, and support to recalibrate and return to our own natural rhythm.

Where art and wellness meet

I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and my artistic practice is deeply woven into the way I see wellness.

As an artist, I have always been fascinated by patterns, form, texture, movement, transformation, and what exists beneath the surface. I notice the same things in people.

Whether I'm working with sculpture, walking through the woods, exploring a Human Design chart, or looking at the subtle patterns revealed through bioenergetics, I'm asking similar questions:

What is moving? What is stuck? What is asking to be noticed? And what becomes possible when we create space for something new to emerge?

My artwork reflects this fascination with growth, movement, texture, and transformation. My wellness work is simply another expression of that same curiosity.

The seasons of a life

As a wife and mother of three young adults, I have lived through many seasons of giving, nurturing, changing, letting go, and beginning again. These experiences have deepened my understanding of how easy it can be to lose touch with ourselves while caring for the people we love.

They have also taught me that life isn't meant to be lived in one constant season.

I'm the co-author, with Cia Ricco, of Inner Seasons: Reclaim Your Capacity to Thrive, a book exploring how the cycles within and around us can mirror our own seasons of growth, rest, renewal, and transformation.

This idea of seasons is woven through all of my work: there is a time to soften, a time to listen, a time to receive, a time to choose, a time to expand, and a time to let go.

My work today

As a certified Energy4Life Bioenergetic Practitioner, Human Design Guide, and trained Aromatherapist, I bring together these different ways of understanding ourselves to create a deeply personal approach to wellness.

My own Human Design as a 6/2 Reflector has taught me to honor sensitivity, spaciousness, perspective, and timing. It has also deepened my belief that we don't all thrive by following the same path.

There is no one-size-fits-all version of wellness.

There is your rhythm.
Your body.
Your design.
Your seasons.
Your knowing.

My role is not to tell you who to become. It's to help you notice what may be getting in the way of the woman you already are.

Because when we become more aware of our patterns, something begins to shift. Doubting, accommodating, and overriding ourselves can begin to soften. Receiving can become more natural. Choosing ourselves can feel less like selfishness and more like coming home.

And perhaps, underneath everything you've been carrying, you'll discover that your light was never gone.

It was simply waiting for a little more room to shine.

That's what Lighten Up With Lela is about.

Creating more space for energy, joy, vitality, purpose, and the freedom to live, love, and lead as yourself.

Let's lighten up together.