Where Do We Go from Here *
Where Do We Go from Here *
Here Now Mastermind with Jennifer
Share your big ideas, where your heart is leading you, listen to others, and follow through on plans with a trustworthy and enthusiastic community.
12 Steps to Define Your Focus and Achieve Your Goals
** What You'll Get
Learn time-tested truths laid down in an easy, accessible style, based on values like passion, faith, honor, justice, and truth.
** Live, Interactive Sessions
Enriching, engaging lessons & 3 LIVE discussions per week for the first month - bi-weekly after that - intended to be safe, respectful, fun and creative. Be inspired to move confidently in the world. Sessions are recorded for on-demand access.
** Ongoing Group Support
We facilitate and encourage connection of members outside of regular meeting/work times so that you have a community of support as tightly or loosely knit as you choose through your own participation.
** Vibrant, Educational Video Content
High-quality, information-filled video, audio, and pdf content provides the opportunity to listen again and again which will enrich your learning and accelerate progress.
Program Details
** 12 Lessons & meetings for $20, then $20/month - a Lifetime Membership Price for first-time members as long as membership remains active.
With consistent participation, expect noticeable improvements in well-being, worldly success, daily ease, and relationships.
Meet three (3) times weekly over four weeks, then have continued access to all videos & recordings. Receive bonus, exclusive introductory recordings.
** Community Focus
Share your big ideas, listen, brainstorm, participate, receive feedback, and follow through on plans with a trustworthy, enthusiastic group of similarly-minded, good-hearted people.
** What You’ll Need
Willingness, Time, Commitment. You may also want a special notebook, journal or folder to keep track of notes and ideas.
The Essence of Yoga
Jennifer’s Essence of Yoga programs are perfect for enthusiastic students and teachers who are interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of Yoga and how to practice in a way that is most beneficial, as our needs and abilities shift daily and through time. Comprehensive, practical, down-to-earth, and empowering, these 6 courses have been created to increase knowledge of Yoga postures, philosphy, and practice; affirm the importance and value of embracing and responding to one’s own experience; and support students in developing an approach to practice and to life that is beneficial and fun.
Why I Created these Sequences
1. After having studied for a long time, I still sometimes found it difficult to know exactly what to practice on any given day. Inspired by Jehangir Palkhivala's Mother Sequence "templates", I created additional sequences that can be practiced vinyasa style or be segmented to explore themes and principles in a holistic practice. I have included pranayamas (breathing exercises) and key yoga sutras, stories, mantras and meditations that make each practice enlightening, interesting, and fun while still being grounded in tradition.
2. After 13 years of mostly Iyengar-style yoga I began practicing “the Primary series” created by Pattabhi Jois. While noting the popularity of the vinyasa method, I also observed that many people were only practicing that one sequence daily. I also observed many of these people becoming injured with a host of overuse and misuse injuries. I want to offer practitioners an opportunity to slow down and gather knowledge through expertise and their own exploration. After 30 years of seeking and study, I always find my way back to Iyengar’s brilliance and Raja Yoga - mastery of the mind. I offer accessible variations of asanas so practitioners can "own the practice" as it relates to their uniqueness, be unbound by what is considered "convention", and be truly empowered from the inside out.
3. I love Yoga! and am fascinated by nature and the human body. These practices allow me to explore my reaction to different types of postures with and without the use of props and tools for practice. This makes sense to me and has allowed me to become absorbed physically and intellectually in the depth of exploration, creativity, and what may provide the most benefit, physically and spiritually.
4. I like to educate interested students and practitioners that “Ashtanga Yoga” refers to the 8-limbed path explained by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. More accurately it is Raja Yoga - practice that leads you to be the "king" ("raj") of your mind. The “Yoga” is fundamentally in HOW you come to succeed in that - with curious attention, whole-heartedness, and desire to know and grow, sometimes seeking help and influence outside of the traditional lineage of Yoga.
5. I believe in taking time to understand and practice proper alignment, explore & experience the body's subtle energetic currents, learn the language (Sanskrit) and culture (ancient India/Hinduism) from which Yoga was born, and establish a practice that leads one to peace and understanding is the most valuable thing each and every person can do to make a positive impact in the world.
6. Yoga is experienced through intelligent action - action that can, if done with commitment, care and consistency, lead us all to the well of peace, love and delight of Divine connection.
The Essence of Yoga:
Fundamentals
A fundamental sequence of postures as well as basic anatomy and alignment for safe practice.
Introduction to breath exercises (pranayama), simple meditation, and the Yoga Sutras are covered.
Prasaritta:
Broaden Your Perspective
A sequence of postures that stretch the back and hips which support emotional release and result in deep relaxation .
Additional pranayama practices, more Yoga Sutras, and Mantra meditation is introduced.
Parivritta:
Look Around
Twists are the focus of this sequence as we begin to focus on spinal flexibility and the physiological effects of performing the postures.
A beginning look into the Chakra system and coordinating Mantras and journal assignments are included.
Parsva:
Variations on Direction
Lateral stretching is the foundations of this sequence which includes leg variations in inversions that develop core strength and balance. 360° movement patterns are introduced.
Continued study of Mantra Meditation, the Chakras, the Yoga Sutras Study and Advanced Pranayama are included.
Viparita:
Turn it Around, Turn it Upside Down
Basic and in depth practice in backbends (including backbending while upside down) are the focus of this sequence that strengthens and stretches the entire front & back body and spine.
Continued study of Pranayama, Chakras, Yoga and Meditation.
Balance:
Focus, Calm, Stability
Focus and Equanimity make for a steady posture and easy living. This sequence focuses on standing balance which requires bringing all together through the mental concentration and core strength developed in previous lessons.
The Bhagavad-Gita, Yoga in Relationships, and Prayer are introduced.
Relax and Renew
This sequence can be learned and practiced any time, and hopefully many times, along your journey. This module is designed especially for a healthy immune system, optimal sleep and deep relaxation. Deep breathing, positive affirmation and creative meditation is emphasized.