Jan Mundo, CMSC, CMT, RSMT, is a Master Somatic Coach and Bodyworker and an author, who specializes in transformation of headache, migraine, stress, tension, pain, and trauma.

For over fifty years, since 1970, Jan has been placing her hands on people’s headaches and migraines (including her own) and relieving their pain and associated symptoms on the spot with her signature Transcranial Somatic Therapy aka the Mundo Method. A talent and gift that has been refined through decades of practice, she says that anyone can learn and has taught hundreds of clients how to self-apply it.

Migraines have always been in her life beginning with her mom, who had severe migraines. Ten-year-old Jan would help by massaging the “knots and spurs” in her mom’s neck and back. Later, to address her own severe migraines during perimenopause, Jan developed her holistic somatic self-care headache program to relieve and prevent her migraines, without medication or side effects.

After twenty-one years of informally relieving people’s pain, she got a “license to touch,” graduating as a certified massage therapist (Massage School of Santa Monica). In 1992 when her fifteen-year chronic back pain finally “unlocked” in a cathartic breathing workshop, and her clients’ emotional content would emerge during their sessions, she chose the path of Somatics. She certified in Body-Centered Therapy and Conscious Relationship Transformation (Hendricks Institute, 1993-94), graduated as a Master Somatic Coach and Bodyworker (Strozzi Institute, 1996-2001), and certified in Somatics and Trauma I (Haines, 2002). She has trained extensively in multiple healing and transformative modalities, including energy work, intuitive development, chi gung, mindfulness meditation, and breathwork.

Jan has held holistic headache and mind-body classes at medical and community centers, corporations, and conferences, including New York Headache Center, UCSF Osher Center, Kaiser Permanente, Hill Physicians Medical Group, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Apple, LinkedIn, Athleta, US Association for Body Psychotherapy Conference, Miles for Migraine, and The Embodiment Conference. You can read Jan’s CV here.

She is author and illustrator of The Headache Healer’s Handbook: A Holistic, Hands-On Somatic Self-Care Program for Headache and Migraine Relief and Prevention (New World Library, 2018), which delivers her comprehensive program and teaches readers how to overcome their pain and reclaim their lives.

She is also published in Massage Magazine (2007, 2017, 2018), Migraine Again (2019), the anthology Being Human at Work, edited by Strozzi-Heckler (North Atlantic, 2003), Spiritual Midwifery (Gaskin, BPC 1975, 1977, 2003), and The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (Hagler, BPC, 1978), for which she is a contributing editor.

In 2001, a retrospective pilot study showing the efficacy of her holistic program was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Cephalalgia and presented in poster session at the International Headache Congress.

Little known fact: Jan is a founding member of The Farm, the iconic intentional community in Summertown, TN, where she lived for fifteen years. Their collective lifestyle, vegan diet, meditative practices, midwife-assisted home birth, attention to energy, and spiritual agreements is foundational to her work and teaching today. Her life story is featured in American Commune, the 2013 documentary film about The Farm, written and directed by her filmmaker daughters, Rena Croshere and Nadine Apolonio (Mundo Films).

Always a New Yorker and a Cali-girl, she is a mother and grandmother, was born in New York, raised in L.A., liberated in sixties Berkeley, joyfully lived in Manhattan for over a decade, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Initial Headache Detective Session Regularly $295 PROMO $155
Somatic Headache Therapy Session Regularly $200 PROMO $155
Somatic Transformation Session Regularly $200 PROMO $155