About Jennifer Speiden
Creative movement has always been an integral part of Jennifer's personal and professional life. She enjoys integrating movement and healing arts into her work and play for overall health, well-being, and enjoyment. Jennifer is inspired to weave tools and teachings from both Eastern and Western medicine & movement approaches to encourage people of all ages and ability levels to tend and befriend their bodies, breath, minds, hearts, and spirits.
Jennifer has trained in a variety of styles of yoga as well as specialized training to work with individuals who have not readily been given access to somatic tools of self-regulation, self-integration, and resiliency. This includes adapting trauma-informed practices to support those living with developmental disabilities, neurodiverse individuals, elder populations, those recovering from substance addictions, individuals living with mental health challenges, and those who have experienced trauma (including caregivers who can experience secondary trauma in their line of work.)
She hopes to help individuals enjoy the beauty of the dance between mindful movement and reflective stillness while navigating the waves of the physical, emotional, and mental challenges that come with living in a human body in this world.
Yoga
Yoga Teacher and Therapist Training
Specialized Yoga Training
Body-Heart-Mind Wellness, Recovery, and Resilience
Empowered Aging
Pelvic Floor Health
Physical Therapy
Public Health
Ayurveda
Rhythm, Movement & Wellness
Jennifer has trained in a variety of styles of yoga as well as specialized training to work with individuals who have not readily been given access to somatic tools of self-regulation, self-integration, and resiliency. This includes adapting trauma-informed practices to support those living with developmental disabilities, neurodiverse individuals, elder populations, those recovering from substance addictions, individuals living with mental health challenges, and those who have experienced trauma (including caregivers who can experience secondary trauma in their line of work.)
She hopes to help individuals enjoy the beauty of the dance between mindful movement and reflective stillness while navigating the waves of the physical, emotional, and mental challenges that come with living in a human body in this world.
Yoga
Yoga Teacher and Therapist Training
- Essential Yoga Therapy and IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT
- Certified 500-hour Viniyoga™ Teacher, American Viniyoga Institute
- Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Anna Pittman
- Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher
- 25+ years studying, practicing, and being a student of yoga
Specialized Yoga Training
Body-Heart-Mind Wellness, Recovery, and Resilience
- Completed Subtle® Yoga Online Trainings with Kristine Weber (neuroscience of yoga, yoga for mental well-being, accessible yoga for chronic health issue support, trauma-informed yoga)
- Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Leader
- Relax and Renew® Trainer (Restorative yoga teacher certification with Judith Lasater)
- Completed Yoga and Heart Disease with Nischala Joy Devi
- Completed Adapting Yoga for Disability Level 1 with Mind Body Solutions
- Completed Yoga of Awareness for Cancer Professional Training at Duke Integrative Medicine
Empowered Aging
- Completed SomaYoga Institute's Memory Maintenance Yoga Certificate Training
- Completed Teaching Yoga to Seniors Certificate Training
- Brain Longevity® Specialist, Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation
Pelvic Floor Health
- Completed Training the Pelvic Floor & 5 Diaphragms with Samantha Akers
- Completed Pelvic Floor Yoga™ Teacher Training with Leslie Howard
- Completed PhysioYoga and the Pelvic Floor Online Training with Shelly Prosko
Physical Therapy
- Master of Science, Physical Therapy
Public Health
- Certified Community Health Worker
Ayurveda
- American Institute of Vedic Studies Certified Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor
- American Institute of Vedic Studies Certified Yoga & Ayurveda Health Educator
Rhythm, Movement & Wellness
- Completed Sacred Frame Academy Program with Krista Holland
- Completed Frame Drum Academy 101, 202, and 303 Programs with Marla Leigh
- Completed the Music and Wellness training with Jim Donovan
- Dance for PD trainings with Mark Morris Dance Company
- Completed The Groove Method Facilitator Training
- 20+ years studying, practicing, and being a student of transcultural dance and drum traditions
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Acknowledgment
I am an interdisciplinary facilitator and who leads classes and explorations that integrate the wisdom of yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, somatics, rhythm, and play.
The original stewards of the land I live and work on is stolen land that belongs to the Tutelo people. I offer my reverence to them and to this land, and I commit to decolonization as a way of life.
The ancestors of several of my inspirations that support my learning are not my blood ancestors. I pay respect to them and seek to honor them as my own.
Acknowledgment
I am an interdisciplinary facilitator and who leads classes and explorations that integrate the wisdom of yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, somatics, rhythm, and play.
The original stewards of the land I live and work on is stolen land that belongs to the Tutelo people. I offer my reverence to them and to this land, and I commit to decolonization as a way of life.
The ancestors of several of my inspirations that support my learning are not my blood ancestors. I pay respect to them and seek to honor them as my own.