Training in the Healing Arts
Told she wouldn’t walk for a year after a near-death car wreck in 2004, somehow Jennifer knew it wouldn’t take that long to heal. Something within her shifted after that experience, and her intuition was awakened. In a wheelchair, she got a ride to the library where she checked out every book on positive thinking, visualization, and healing. Beginning to meditate every day and using visualization with sound therapy, Jennifer began to feel her leg healing. At the four-month mark, her doctor announced she could begin rehab within two months. Cutting her healing time in half, she was left with more questions than answers about her own experience and the human capacity for healing — enough so, that within six months she decided to commit to a career in the healing arts.
Bodywork
Beginning the journey with a program in Shiatsu, Jennifer studied with Gary Ruiz for a year in Sonoma. In the following years she continued her studies at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, McKinnon Institute in Oakland, and Esalen Institute in Big Sur. With over 650 hours in training, including Prenatal + Infant Massage, Deep Work, and Touch for Special Populations, Jennifer is certified with the CAMTC.
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Herbalism
In 2008, Jennifer added herbal studies to her repertoire. Her path of connecting to the plants, began with a year-long program taught by Kami Bride, Cultivating the Herbal Medicine Woman. “Learning to live with the seasons changed my life,” wholeheartedly believes. Craving more, she continued my herbal education at the California School for Herbal Studies, nestled in the hills of Forrestville, California.
For over a decade medicine-making has been her medicine. Her Practice has been tuning into Mother Nature’s flow a bit more with each passing season. The wisdom when we listen is always humbling. During the pandemic, she deepened her commitment to working with the plants. In 2021, I began HER: Herbal Evolution Revival, a small boutique, focused on education and healing the feminine wound as a way of healing the planet; It began abundantly clear the two were inextricably linked.
Yoga
The first time Jennifer physically stepped onto a mat was in 1998. Though, she had been doing yoga unofficially for years. Stepping on and off the mat throughout college, it was after rehabilitating from my femur break in 2004 that she committed deeply to a personal practice. Studying Forrest Yoga healed her — so much that she was confident she would become a Forrest Yoga instructor, in the tradition of her favorite teacher Sharon Dawson. Yet, she joined 200 hour Vinyasa Teacher Training in 2012 at Ubuntu Yoga Studio in Napa, because Sharon was on the teaching staff. During that training, she met Jody Greene, Janet Stone’s assistant. Jody inspired Jennifer to begin taking classes with Janet in San Francisco. Over the next 6 years she studied with Janet, becoming one of her assistants too. She expanded her understanding of the practice to include devotional practices of chanting, alignment cuing and hands-on-assists. In the years that Jennifer studied towards her 500 hour certification with JSY, she also completed trainings in Prental Vinyasa Yoga, SUP Yoga, AcroVinyasa two separate Trauma informed yoga programs, and a tantra yoga training. Read more about Jennifer’s specific trainings.