Jennifer, originally from Philadelphia then on to NYC, has been practicing yoga for ten years. Starting with Iyengar, she discovered that yoga helped her in healing many aspects of her life: from depression to injuries from being a runner. She combines her love of words and poetry, music, and the healing arts in her classes. Classes are challenging , yet completely personal. Each class is different; depending on the students' energy, mood, level, and time of day/year. Jennifer knows that yoga helped change her life, allowing her to become more compassionate and to simply get quieter in the mind. The transformative quality of it is what intrigues her most. Her first yoga class was with Pagan 10 years ago and she credits him with turning her on to the gift of yoga. Jen knows you have to have a sense of humor about it all as well, and attempts to bring that sentiment to each class. If you can't laugh, then what is there? It's just yoga, after all! Another day, another downward facing dog.
" I am in awe of the things that cause change.
The forces, natural and apocryphal, that cause us to evolve-
The catalysts, those things working in our favor-
The impetus for us metamorphose, to mutate and transform.
Whether being trapped inside the earth in heat so blasting
A Guatemalan volcano has to spew its ashy breath-
Or having an old friend come to stay for a week.
We change.
We change shapes and figures over and over again.
We exchange one body for the next, one precious
Stone for a different one.
One pleasure for another."
