When your body feels good, you don't notice it. You don't notice your knees when you hike, your back after a long day, and you get off the ground without a grunt or sigh. Mine used to hurt. I exercised inside the dominant cultural concept that being healthy equalled measuring up to specific performance goals. I looked very healthy, but my body ached, even though I did lots of cross training, yoga and pilates. I came to learn that exercise and movement are different. Someone can be really active, but also be extremely sedentary in certain parts of their body and prone to disease and injury in the same ways a "non-active" person could be.

Movement is a powerful medicine not just impacting muscles and joints, but heart health, bone density, pelvic floor function, lymph regulation, balanced menstrual cycles...the list goes on. BUT, you must know what the variety and dosage of actual movement is that you're ingesting. Because most of us move as if we're writing a sentence using a 10-letter alphabet and a worn out pen, over and over again, but we can't see it. Your body can do amazing things, and feel amazing too. We all need more movement: and a higher quality and quantity of movement to stave off the affluent ailments rampant in our culture.

I have an embodied understanding of how alignment, geometry, physics, and motion all interplay by spending thousands of hours moving in the studio, not just sitting at a desk. I have over fifteen years of professional training in movement and dance reinforced by my collected certifications and continuing education. I "walk the walk" of a supple, capable body, and constantly learn more about it by studying the living world. I understand scoliosis by looking at the way a tree grows around a boundary, and I see a story of arterial plaque and blood dynamics in the erosion of riverbanks.

We are not separate from the world: our body is extensively and unfathomably interdependent within itself and beyond itself. My aim is to push the edge of what's possible in my body, mind and spirit, and offer what I learn along the way. It's so fun to feel my moving and dancing self growing more flexible, strong, and injury free as I age, as opposed to the other way around.

I hope you join me!

Jenn found Iyengar yoga 16 years ago in an effort to manage injuries from a lifetime of competitive sports. Not only did she find yoga provided relief from chronic lower back pain and stiff shoulders but enhanced her emotional and mental well being too. Her style is challenging, yet encouraging. Jenn enjoys teaching students of all levels progress in their practice both on the mat and in their daily activities. In addition to her background in Yoga, Jenn is also certified to teach Pilates (in fact, Melissa took her first real Pilates Mat class from Jenn in 2006!) and TRX suspension training.

When not teaching, Jenn enjoys mountain biking, gardening and backpacking with her two daughters