About Jenna
Hello Loves,
Welcome. Here’s a little glimpse of who I am and my call to this work. I am here because I believe life to be precious. The process of our whole self coming into the fullness of this life is a long and worthy trek. It requires boundless patience and safe containment, where curiosity and compassion are present in full. Repairing our relationship with wholeness necessitates the presence of others in the mud with us. I know, bummer right? But as the saying goes - “no mud, no lotus.”
I know in my bones that the transformation of the things that have kept us small, separate, and stuck is more than possible. It is a work that is already happening within us, we just have to show up. In what ways are we limiting life’s work in and through us? Where do we meet our edges in our capacity to hold all that life has for us? These are the questions I’m interested in as a mind—body coach.
My work centers on supporting you on your journey toward cultivating a greater capacity for aliveness. I will work with you to connect your heart, body, and inner wisdom to what you want and care about. Nourishing this connection of your whole self leads you to live, relate, and make choices from a fully embodied place, allowing for deeper intimacy, authenticity, and fulfillment in your life.
My practice is inspired by an exploration of the healing arts, integrating poetry, music, nature, yoga, and psychology. I take a holistic approach, blending creative expression and scientific understanding with a deep respect for the wisdom of the body. This manifests through a variety of techniques including mindfulness, breathwork, polyvagal theory, and body practices to reveal unconscious beliefs and defense mechanisms, allowing them to come into conscious awareness.
My work is rooted in creating a sacred space where exploration of the self can occur. I believe the body is a powerful portal to the present moment, where we can reconnect with our essence and find clarity, even amid difficulty. Our bodies hold not only our personal and collective histories but also our deepest hopes and an innate connection to the wholeness of life.
My own journey into somatics was ignited by a deep yearning to expand and show up more fully in my relationships, work, and life. Years of trauma left its imprint of dissociative tendencies and shut-down responses, leaving me with a sense of floating through my life. I gravitated towards traveling and literature to experience other ways of being, drawn to how different cultures approached healing and incorporated embodiment and ritual practices. I found yoga to be a practice that engaged my whole soma and I studied to become a teacher in Greece under Carmen Hellmann. I left with the sense I had stepped into part of my calling to lead others into a deeper presence with themselves. I studied psychology as a way to understand how we humans become wounded and mend. This led me to cultivate a deep resonance with Jungian psychology and appreciation for the pioneers in the body psychology movement including Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Stephen Porges. As I swam deeper into the world of somatics in my studies I felt I had discovered the missing key in my own healing practice. Because we have deeply absorbed certain ways of being in our body informed by the things that have kept us small, we must practice new ways of inhabiting this vessel that allow for a truer self to emerge. The body shapes the mind as much as the mind shapes the body. I took up studying Mind-Body Coaching through the Embody Lab under amazing leaders Stacy Haines, Kai Cheng, Dr. Scott Lyons, and more.
Somatic practices are not complicated and certainly not new, but have been sorely left out of our culture informed by capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. Returning to embodied presence grounded in what we truly care about is more important than ever as we work to change the world around us.
