About Us

Jessica Jane Poirier and Kerwin Halim Rodriguez co-founded the Phoenix Path Project in 2025 to offer a sacred path of transformation for those rising from trauma, oppression, and spiritual crisis. With Jessica’s background in science, healing arts, spiritual practices, inner alchemy, feminine empowerment, and trauma recovery, and Kerwin’s experience as a master martial artist, sensei, spiritual warrior and guardian, with a cognitive behavioral therapy background and coaching experience, they joined forces to create a nonprofit rooted in ancient wisdom, modern science and holistic healing. Together, they provide a sanctuary where pain becomes purpose, and where every soul is guided to reclaim their inner fire and rise with strength, clarity, and sovereignty. 

Jessica Jane is the co-founder of Phoenix Path Project, a Florida-based nonprofit dedicated to trauma recovery, women’s empowerment, and support for individuals experiencing spiritual emergency and psychological crisis. Her work blends holistic, somatic, and integrative methods to help people heal, reclaim their power, and find deeper purpose.

Jessica faced significant levels of adversity, including experiences of abuse and trauma that shaped her early life. These challenges became the foundation of a powerful journey of transformation. She has devoted herself to decades of intensive training in Eastern arts, mystical disciplines and the sacred sciences. Through years of self-guided healing, spiritual development, inner alchemy, academic studies and disciplined martial arts training, she found a path to recovery and resilience. Her lived experience now fuels her passion for creating accessible healing spaces for others, especially women and those navigating spiritual emergencies.

Jessica has an academic background in mathematics, physics, neuroscience and psychology, and has worked professionally as an educator in math and science. However, over time she came to see that true healing and empowerment require more than intellectual understanding. Her focus shifted toward holistic approaches that honor the emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of healing. 

Today, Jessica serves as a mentor, educator, and group facilitator offering trauma-informed programs that integrate movement, inner work, ritual and community connection.  She has over a decade of experience with sharing her healing arts in treatment and recovery centers in South Florida, and with 1 on 1 mentoring and spiritual coaching as an ordained minister and professional astrologer. She brings a rare combination of scientific insight, embodied wisdom, and real-world resilience to her work, empowering others to rise from adversity with strength, clarity, and compassion.

Kerwin Rodriguez is a master martial artist, spiritual teacher, and coach. As the co-founder of Phoenix Path Project, he is dedicated to trauma recovery, spiritual crisis support, and personal transformation through embodied practice. He has a background in cognitive behavioral therapy and several modalities of healing arts. With over three decades of experience in traditional spiritual practice, mentoring, martial arts and inner development, Kerwin brings a grounded, warrior-based approach to healing and empowerment.

Kerwin holds a sixth-degree black belt and is the lineage holder of Rinkiohen-Do, a family-based tradition. He also holds high-level certifications and black belts in Bujinkan, Kyokushinkai, Jeet Kune Do, and Hoshin Roshi Ryu, with a background that includes full-contact competition, private security work, and rigorous discipline. But beyond physical mastery, his lifelong pursuit of truth has led him into the realms of Daoist alchemy, Japanese esotericism, acupressure, Reiki, and psychological modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy.

A turning point in Kerwin’s journey came when he was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer. Rather than following a conventional medical path, he chose to confront the illness by addressing its underlying emotional and psychological roots. Through inner work, trauma resolution, deep shadow work and spiritual alignment, he experienced full recovery, an awakening that transformed not only his health but the direction of his life’s work and greater soul purpose.

Today, Kerwin blends his martial and spiritual disciplines to guide others through crisis, transformation, and integration. Whether working with survivors of trauma, individuals in spiritual emergence, initiates, or fellow seekers on the warrior’s path, he offers a rare fusion of strength, clarity, and soul-centered support. His teaching is rooted not in theory, but in lived experience—and his mission is to help others reclaim their power through embodied truth.