Jennifer insightfully, passionately and often humorously guides each student she works with to the next place in their own growth, whether she is working one on one, teaching a stillness-based gentle yoga class or a physically challenging vinyasa class. She is dedicated to guiding her students to a place just beyond where there thought they could go, and discovering what is possible when we bring our whole selves to the moment. Uniting innovative asana sequencing with attention to alignment, breath work, chanting, partner work and meditation, Jennifer brings creativity, curiosity and love to the practice of teaching yoga. Her passion for yoga and for life is contagious.
Jennifer has been a professional artist for twenty years and her award winning artwork has appeared in Yoga Journal, Psychology Today and the Calendar of Women Artists. Holding a Master’s Degree in Art and Consciousness Studies, she was an Associate Professor at Cogswell College in Silicon Valley where for eight years she taught storytelling, mythology and creativity, in addition to teaching in Singapore and in India. While in higher education she researched and collected the origins of the holidays celebrated around the world, traveling to fourteen countries documenting unique religious traditions or sacred festivals. What she found out was that every moment of every day someone is celebrating the sacred in any variety of forms, and that essentially, every moment is sacred.
She left higher education to more actively guide people in living healthy happy lives. A yoga practitioner for nineteen years, she has a strong client-based yoga therapeutics practice, and specializes in working with those who have or are recovering from cancer and their caregivers. She is the founder of the Yoga Alliance 200-hour ‘Joy of Yoga’ advanced studies and teacher training program. With her business partner, Angela Gavin, she trains psychotherapists to become yoga teachers, transforming residential treatment centers and educational institutions that are dedicated to helping troubled adolescent girls. Jennifer leads yoga, mind and body retreats around the world. She enthusiastically supports the Tibetan Children’s Education Fund, and is currently raising money to expand a hostel for 200 Tibetan Children in northern India. Jennifer runs the yoga program at Reformation Studio in San Jose. She is completing a yoga guidebook and a therapeutic vinyasa DVD. She lives with her husband Will and their son, Liam.
Jennifer has been a professional artist for twenty years and her award winning artwork has appeared in Yoga Journal, Psychology Today and the Calendar of Women Artists. Holding a Master’s Degree in Art and Consciousness Studies, she was an Associate Professor at Cogswell College in Silicon Valley where for eight years she taught storytelling, mythology and creativity, in addition to teaching in Singapore and in India. While in higher education she researched and collected the origins of the holidays celebrated around the world, traveling to fourteen countries documenting unique religious traditions or sacred festivals. What she found out was that every moment of every day someone is celebrating the sacred in any variety of forms, and that essentially, every moment is sacred.
She left higher education to more actively guide people in living healthy happy lives. A yoga practitioner for nineteen years, she has a strong client-based yoga therapeutics practice, and specializes in working with those who have or are recovering from cancer and their caregivers. She is the founder of the Yoga Alliance 200-hour ‘Joy of Yoga’ advanced studies and teacher training program. With her business partner, Angela Gavin, she trains psychotherapists to become yoga teachers, transforming residential treatment centers and educational institutions that are dedicated to helping troubled adolescent girls. Jennifer leads yoga, mind and body retreats around the world. She enthusiastically supports the Tibetan Children’s Education Fund, and is currently raising money to expand a hostel for 200 Tibetan Children in northern India. Jennifer runs the yoga program at Reformation Studio in San Jose. She is completing a yoga guidebook and a therapeutic vinyasa DVD. She lives with her husband Will and their son, Liam.
