Wellness, Health, Healing and Hope are dynamic aspects of our lives.  Our personal definitions expand and change through life.  Transitional Yoga is a means of supporting individuals who might be facing health challenges, a change in their lives, a loss experience, or are in the end of Life transition.   Through these natural transitions ~ Transitional Yoga offers physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual support through gentle yoga and music, allowing for peace and relaxation to emerge. 

          Yoga is widely recognized as an effective means to manage stress and anxiety, maintain and/or improve strength and flexibility for wellness, and create mindfulness for a stronger connection with our spirit and all of life. 

Through yoga and music, we quiet the body, mind, and emotions using gentle movement, breathwork, stillness and quiet reflection.  Transitional Yoga classes allows us to move inward, gently, without judgment, to the stillness within, thus becoming a partner and witness to our inner wisdom and healing.   Yoga is a philosophy of Life, a courageous exploration, which integrates our body, mind and spirit.  Yoga cultivates a sense of well-being, unity, balance, spaciousness, contentment, and self-awareness ~ opening our hearts to the beauty, joy, and peacefulness, which are our true nature.  

Jennifer has a Masters of Social Work, working in Hospice care for many years, which allowed her to experience the strength and beauty of the human spirit.  She is a registered yoga teacher, after years of personal practice and currently is finishing her yoga therapy training.   She has two certifications in music for healing, which uses music to create an atmosphere of peacefulness and relaxation. She is the author of "End of Life Yoga Therapy: Exploring Life and Death" forthcoming in the 2008 International Yoga Therapy Journal. She will also co-chair the End of Life Yoga Therapy Common Interest Community session at the 2009 Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research.  Her instrumental harp CD entitled ~ “Life Beyond Words” is available at www.embugpub.com.