The Poet PharmD
Who Awakened

On making awakening experiential, not conceptual

In college, my mind went silent for six months.

Not empty. Not blank.

Deeply, profoundly still.

In that stillness, I felt what I'd never felt before: loved. Not by someone outside me. But as myself. As the nature of what I am.

That experience became my life's work.

Hi, I'm Jane Kim Yu

Founder of Presence Made Visible

This is my Story : The beginning

I was born with a rare sun allergy—polymorphic light eruption. It suddenly appeared in my early years, and soon after, most of my childhood was spent indoors, away from the light that would make my skin erupt in painful welts. I learned early that the world could hurt you just by being itself.

By the time I reached college, I was studying to become a pharmacist. Science made sense. Molecules, mechanisms, measurable outcomes. I wanted to understand how things worked—especially how to fix what was broken.

And then, everything changed.

The Awakening

During my third year of pharmacy school, something shifted. My mind, which had always been loud, busy, analytical—went quiet. Not silent in the way of meditation. Silent in the way of coming home.

For six months, I lived in a state I'd later learn is called awakening, non-dual awareness, unity consciousness. But at the time, I had no language for it. I just knew: I am love. I have always been love. There is nothing but this.

The sun allergy I'd had my entire life? It vanished. My body, which had rejected light, now welcomed it. The external shift mirrored the internal one: I was no longer separate from life. I was life itself, experiencing itself.

The Beauty was absolutely breathtaking

The Integration

That experience was so potent, it lasted a long time, to be frank. However, like all awakenings, the peak eventually faded. But the knowing remained.

The years that followed were challenging. How do you integrate something so profound? How do you live as a pharmacist—dispensing medications, counseling patients—when you've touched something beyond the material world?

I wrote. Writing, Poetry, Creative Art became my way of processing, translating, transmitting what couldn't be said directly. What emerged became Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness, an award-winning poetic memoir/guide that speaks not to the mind, but to the heart.

And then I started teaching.

I went on a journey to understand what happened.

A creative practice of experiential awakening.

The Work Now

Today, I bridge the worlds I've lived: science and mysticism, intellect and embodiment, poetry and practice.

I'm not interested in more concepts about enlightenment. I want you to feel it. To taste it. To recognize it as what you already are.

Right now, this takes the form of intimate 1:1 sessions, poetry, and my award-winning book. What else it becomes—programs, retreats, collaborative work—will emerge from what seekers actually need. I'm building this in real-time, with transparency and care.

My book, Journey of Awakening, has been featured on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and has won multiple literary awards.

My book has been featured on major media outlets

What I Believe

You are not broken. You don't need fixing. You need remembering.

Awakening is not an achievement. It's a recognition of what's always been true.

The body is not an obstacle to awakening—it's a doorway.

Beauty, poetry, and art are not decoration—they're transmission.

All work is sacred work. There's no bypassing your way to wholeness.

You are love. Not loved by something outside you. But love itself, having a human experience.

what im doing now.

When I'm not teaching, I'm writing, creating art, and spending time in nature—especially under the sun that once felt like my enemy and now feels like my teacher.

This work is my service.
My offering.
My homecoming,
shared with you.