About Jen

WELCOME, I’m Jen. I’m a certified health coach and yoga teacher helping clients find greater wellbeing in their life.

My coaching clients have successfully incorporated diet and lifestyle changes to lose weight and keep it off, measurably improve their health to enable their doctors to adjust their medication, built new habits to alleviate stress and improve sleep, even after years of sleepless nights.

As a yoga teacher, I work with clients who wish to incorporate the benefits of yoga into their everyday lives. I’ve been teaching yoga since 2011 at yoga studios (L.A.’s Black Dog Yoga through 2020, currently Old Town Yoga in Fort Collins, CO.) workplaces, through online group classes and individual sessions.  I designed the Yoga Foundations program and other yoga programming for wellness-startup Rebel360 with teacher Heather Archer.

My yoga teaching is informed by my practice and my life. I came to yoga nearly 25 years ago, taking a class at a gym to avoid the actual gym. Before teaching, I worked as an entertainment business journalist. 

In between, I burnt out and moved to Paris, because, Paris. And croissants. I thought it would put an end to the anxiety that had stalled me in my writing work in LA. I had been waking up with a pit in my stomach that I would try to stuff down and ignore before my first cup of coffee. But without distractions from friends and my daily routine, I was forced to actually spend time with my thoughts. Walking behind the Notre Dame one day, embarrassingly teary-eyed, I was hit by the truth in the title of a Jon Kabat-Zinn book I had bought but never read: Wherever You Go There You Are.

F*ck.

I was living this privileged life but my mind was beating me up. So I did the only thing I knew to do in pre-iPhone times: I began practicing yoga every damn day in my Right Bank apartment. My mat provided safe space from my tangled mind. I began unraveling all the ideas about how life should be and who I should be. When I returned to LA, I sought out teachers who helped guide me into my body so that I could find clarity in my mind and experience my own presence.

My yoga practice woke me up to all the ways I was sabotaging my own wellbeing to fit into the corporate-paced world. It allowed me to trade out my occasional smoking habit to relieve stress for meditation. I learned how to center my wellbeing and improve my diet and health  (Maybe French Women Don’t Get Fat as the book proclaims, but it turns out an American Women eating a diet of carbs, cheese and pastries just might!)

What I’ve learned from all of this is that you don’t have to dramatically change your job and home to change the patterns of anxiety and improve your wellbeing. You don’t have to move your body into extremes to feel peace and power. Change happens one small, steady step at a time with support. Centering your wellbeing in your life is how you change your experience of life. 

When we feel good we can be present with others, we are empowered to choose how we respond to the world around us. We become the creators of a new world.