"Suddenly, I realized the connectedness of everything, like the ancient mystics all said, and it was accompanied by this feeling of ecstasy, an overwhelming experience that I had never had before." Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, looking down at the moon
Lola Jones Bio
Biography
Lola Jones is a Renaissance woman who opens people to living happy lives very quickly. She also writes books, paints, sings and records original music, defying stereotypes and romping happily in the fields of her own creations. Lola does whatever The Presence moves her to do that day.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1954, her Tennessee-born mom named her Bobbie Sue Jones. Her family started out in a tiny two bedroom frame house on a dirt road, but managed to get her a pony for her 9th birthday, about the time their street got paved.
After putting herself through college and earning her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Texas in 1977, for the next 30 years she proved to be a very creative but practical person, and had several successful businesses. The focus on service that she developed early would serve her well in her many careers. Sometimes she calls those diverse careers "different lives in this body."
As a Jazzercise franchise owner in her twenties, she discovered a natural gift for motivating and changing people's lives -- without even trying. She quickly rose to leadership in that organization, and was among the top 10 instructors out of 4000 franchises worldwide. Several evenings a week she led literally hundreds of happy people in dance celebration, and that was pretty much all the "work" she did for 11 years. She added something to fill her abundant free time: hairstyling provided variety, creativity, and fun during the daytime, and taught her about customer care.
Motivational speaking and corporate training came next. For 15 years Lola was a successful full time consultant and contract trainer working with such clients as IBM, the State of Texas, and GMAC Finance. There were always powerful spiritual principles imbedded in the courses, and people's lives transformed. Lola also taught public spiritual and personal development courses during that period. Lola has always made her living doing her passions, and
she's been self-employed and inner guided most of her life.
At left is Lola in her full time corporate consulting days. Another life in this body! She rarely does some Corporate Training as it's taken a back seat to Divine Openings, Divine Art, and music.
So many kinds of creativity wanted expression. She used to say, "Oh, I'll be an artist when I'm an old lady." When the economic disruption of September 11, 2001 dipped the training market, Lola took the cue for change. She was tired of "talking" and eventually took a year and a half off to paint. That marked the beginning of the most powerful, intuitive, and feminine stage of her life. She dived deep into the silence and painted large canvases, often not leaving City View Ranch for a week at a time (until she ran out of food and had to go to the grocery store). Painting and writing prolifically got her very happy and refreshed. Much of the art you see on this site was done between 2004 and 2007.
At 51, she began signing paintings 'Lola,' and the nickname stuck, because "what Lola wants, Lola gets." Her work has been shown in Sedona and Flagstaff, Arizona, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Austin, Texas. 
In a deeper dive into the mystery, Lola spent 21 days in blessed silence in India, speaking to no human, only to The Divine Presence within, totally changing her life from then forward. "The most difficult part? Talking again!" she says. During that 21 days she received a dramatically enhanced ability to initiate enlightenment, heal, resolve practical life issues, and relieve suffering. Her world instantly shifted to an entirely new dimension of service, power, joy, and creativity.
The work quickly evolved into Divine Openings. Simply being in her presence is to be splashed with a shower of Grace and tangible energy. Lola possesses an extraordinary ability to wake up the Divine Presence in other people, triggering the unfolding of enlightenment. This still amuses her, since she is an ordinary, fallible human being who mows her own fields, fixes fences, makes healthy food, and cleans her own house in one aspect of life, and is a powerful force worldwide in another aspect.
As a child, she told her mom she'd have animals everywhere when she grew up. That dream too came true at her previous haven, City View Ranch in Austin, Texas.
Now she lives up above the Ojai Valley at what she calls "hawk's eye level" at her Ojai Oasis, and gives retreats there.
Lola creates commissioned works of art for clients who want the stunning beauty and Divine Energy of her art in their homes or workplaces.
At 55, Lola began taking singing lessons, and within a year and a half wrote (or co-wrote) and recorded her own original music. She recently wrote the theme song for a film, Beautiful Faces, due out in 2012.
Lola's life partner, Russell Martin, is a filmmaker, and one of his films, Two Spirits, won the Audience Favorite award in PBS's Independent Lens Series in 2011. Russell has been a writer all his life, wrote some best selling books, and still writes books; but at age 55 he started making films.
Russell's website is http://www.sayyesquickly.net/ and there you can take a peek at his newest film, Beautiful Faces, which will be out in 2012. The name of his company, Say Yes Quickly, was inspired by a Rumi poem. He says yes quickly to Life's invitations.
For information about Lola Jones as a spiritual teacher, click here.
Pictures from Lola's previous home and retreat center, City View Ranch.
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