Jasmine Lynch, a former sixth-grade teacher, is on a mission to make wellness practices easily accessible to all who need them. She carries out that mission through her brick-and-mortar heaven on earth, the Come Bee Well House (CBWH).
Located at 3409 Emancipation Ave., just steps from Project Row Houses, the Eldorado Ballroom, and Emancipation Park, CBWH sits at the heart of a community rooted in cultural legacy. And Lynch is now adding wellness history to that landscape, drawing inspiration from her own family’s story.
A place to breathe and belong
To Lynch, the purpose of CBWH is simple.
“Come Bee Well House is your place to come home, take your shoes off, and breathe,” she said. “We do that through meditation classes and vibroacoustic therapy.”
The experience is designed to help people “be with a teacher who’s leading you through breath work using sound and art therapy, as well as community opportunities to be and speak with one another around gratitude.”
CBWH currently offers several services, with meditation sessions and vibroacoustic therapy at the top. The chairs—sleek, high-tech seats that vibrate sound frequencies—immerse visitors in what Lynch describes as “high-frequency, relaxing or energizing sounds that allow you to ground and be in the moment. We say it’s meditation you can feel.”
Meditation sessions take place in the calming Honey Room and are led by Lynch or one of eight house guests who specialize in intuitive meditation. Visitors who aren’t meditating can engage in group or individual sensory play, including creating affirmation boards, building to-do lists, and participating in guided Q&A sessions that contribute to a “community journal.”
The art-therapy portal offers another route to healing, helping participants “tap into additional senses and healing opportunities.” Lynch hopes CBWH becomes nothing less than “your everyday retreat in Third Ward.”
Building a wellness dream
Lynch’s entrepreneurial journey has unfolded quickly.
“What’s really fascinating about this dream that has come true is that I’ve been able to do this in five years,” said Lynch.
She launched her wellness focus in 2019.
“Then the pandemic came, and we all had a ride with wellness. From there, I was able to start building the business, starting with virtual meditation classes, all the way to having a wellness space here in Houston,” shared Lynch, a Dallas native.
She continued expanding her approach step by step.
“I went from virtual to in-person. In-person turned into retreats. And that has now turned into a storefront or a ‘wellfront’ here in Third Ward.”
Family story influence
The roots of Lynch’s work stretch deep into her family history.
“I had come into this world with five generations of women already living,” she reflected.
Her great-great-grandmother kept the family close, “communing with one another, loving on one another,” and lived to 94. Lynch assumed long life was the norm.
But in adulthood, Lynch began to notice a troubling pattern: Women in her family were dying younger each generation.
“I started wondering, what’s happening? Why do we have more education than we’ve ever had before, more healthcare than we’ve ever had before… yet, we are dying younger?” she said.
Her research pointed to chronic illnesses driven by chronic stress.
“From my great-great-grandmother, my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother, there has been an ascension… of more stress. …How are we going to make sure that we all sustain to our 90s to 100? That’s a birthright,” Lynch shared.
Meditation emerged as the answer.
“It is something that’s easily accessible to anyone,” she said.
Citing Oprah and Deepak Chopra’s early virtual meditations, Lynch added, “I knew that that was the thing that I could bring to my community… because meditation literally gives you years on your life.”
Housemates speak
CBWH’s growing community, whom Lynch lovingly calls “housemates,” describes the space as transformative.
“There is a common thread: that they feel like they’re at home… a place they can come in and just finally exhale,” Lynch said of her housemates’ appreciation of the smells, sounds, and range of meditation teachers CBWH offers.
The vibroacoustic chairs often astonish users. One visitor with limited arm mobility “was able… to straighten their arm,” Lynch recalls. Others rediscovered stillness after decades. One grieving visitor shared that the session “gave him the moment to just get away… and sit in the grief.”
Lynch says, “I’m amazed at the testimonials… and I look forward to hearing what everybody experiences when they come here.”
Community celebrates Jasmine
Those who work alongside Lynch are equally inspired.
Donua McDaniels, owner of Powered by Projects, said, “I have the privilege and the honor of working alongside Jasmine… to see so many people get to experience what the Come Bee Well House has to offer.”
McDaniels added, “She is one of those people who operates with integrity… A phenomenal human, 10 out of 10.”
CBWH staff member Tahirah James shared, “Jasmine… brings such a light and positivity… I talk to Jasmine and she had this tone that just mellows me out.”
Resident practitioner Ra Khpre Ptah says Lynch fills a critical need.
“This is essential to what we need in our cities and our communities… to be able to have a space helps a lot… And Jasmine’s just so sweet and loving,” said Ptah.
At Come Bee Well House, Lynch has built more than a business. She has built a sanctuary, a community hub, and a pathway to long-lived wellness, all grounded in legacy, intention, and love.
