From Sitcom Stardom to Spiritual Sojourner: The Enchanting Evolution of Jane Sibbett

After capturing viewers’ hearts as Carol on the iconic ‘Friends’, Jane Sibbett made a daring exit from the Hollywood scene, embarking on a transformative journey as an energy healer. “It’s fascinating because I’m working on the memoir of this whole situation, and one of my mentors had said, ‘Go back before the gift.’ The gift has been here 10 years now,” Sibbett, 62, revealed in a People interview dated Wednesday, June 4. “When I work with the dancing hands, it’s not me. It’s source energy coming through me, and so I just feel nothing but bliss and joy and love when I am in this state.”

Residing in Topanga, California with then-husband Karl Fink, Sibbett took on the role of hostess for ‘goddess circles’, fostering spiritual connectivity among women. These gatherings saw participation from as few as 15 to as many as 100 individuals. In 2015, the couple transitioned to Hawaii, establishing Wild Aloha Studios and speaking at the Big Island Film Festival. “My husband and I split [when] we were in Hawaii, and I was on my knees because I was really brokenhearted by everything, and part of that was my stuff that I had to deal with,” she admitted. “He and I had been producing documentaries for healers who don’t call themselves healers, and one in particular, [Abdy Electriciteh]. My work with him suddenly became a part of this organization, because I’m really collaborative, so I wanted everyone to be in on this. [This healer] asked me to go from [working on] the documentaries to producing these live events, so it was a perfect synthesis of my belief in the gift of him [and] what he was doing and me coming off of Friends.”

Embracing a newfound stage, Sibbett stepped into the spotlight not just as an actress, but as a dynamic introducer of spiritual practitioners to eager crowds. “I’m really a shy person, and so for me to step up into a crowd and introduce him all day long to all these people and have a different story, each and every time, I started to feel the way that source energy or God energy was moving through me.”

Her journey into energy healing began unexpectedly at one of Electriciteh’s events. “He tapped me on my third eye and I went down, I passed out into the state of bliss for about an hour,” she recounted. “There was no thought, there was no fear, there was just — you can’t even say it, but on the other side of it, days later, it was bliss. Some people came up to me afterward and [said], ‘We see this light coming off of your hands,’ because while I was under [the healing trance], my hands started to dance.”

As Sibbett narrated, her ‘dancing hands’ seemed to have a life of their own, continuing their mystical movements and leading her further into this path. “They were dancing above my head, and I began to just watch them with fascination, again, no fear, no thought, just watching as each digit was coming online. They were showing me how they could move independently without me,” she elaborated, noting Electriciteh’s subsequent advice, “He said, ‘Follow it, watch it, [and] we’ll see what happens.’”

Despite lacking formal training, Jane had an innate prowess for energy healing. “I never wanted it [and] I wasn’t looking for it, I just wanted to go back to being an actor. That was much more fun,” she confessed. “I never had aspirations to be a healer. When I was working with the healers, I saw the troubles that they had, and so I’m like, that’s not something to aspire for.”

Yet, her acting roots, highlighted by her portrayal of Ross Geller’s ex-wife, have significantly contributed to her current vocation. “We talk about the muse and the muse is flow,” she explained. “A muse is a source coming through, and I think every actor worth their salt knows that they are embodied by the character. At some point, you give yourself over, [so] I understand why my body is trained to let itself go. That’s part of the actor crisscross there.”