I am interested in connection. Community. And retreats.
So, teaching yoga has become the vehicle that I use to do what comes naturally to me. Setting up space for us all to come together, to acknowledge life is both joy and sorrow, to let go of what isn't needed, and to take on the inner voyages worth taking while we are alive.
I like deep. Deep thoughts, deep talks, vulnerability, risks, leaps, mistakes. That whole idea that life is a mess (think Steve Martin on the metaphoric rollercoaster in Parenthood)
I came to this because I was a failure. At a million things. I continue to fail. Daily. Bad parent choices, bad choices of words, thoughts that are completely out of left field. Somewhere in that spaghetti mess of ill chosen actions is a woman learning, expanding, forgiving, trying again. It's in this voyage that I find my people and we hold each other for whatever timeframe we have. Think finding your village of bumble bees.
This is what happens in my classes.
Forgiveness. Release. Possibly a few tears. A deep look of the spiritual, physical and emotional existence inside us all. And being together.
My Current Yoga Schedule.
Tuesdays at 10:30am Spirit Yoga at Equinox Culver City
Saturdays at 4:30 Yin Yoga at Equinox Culver City
Sundays at 10am Spirit Yoga at Equinox Marina del Rey
Hope you can join me.
More about Jen
With a corporate office in Los Angeles, California, RYW Director Jen E. Smith travels the globe interviewing, researching and recommending the best that the world has to offer in broadening the yoga spectrum through events.
An avid yoga practitioner and indoor cyclist since the early 90’s, Jen took her first yoga 200 hour teacher training in 2001 through Julian Walker and Rick Gould at Santa Monica Yoga. She followed this with ANOTHER 200 hour TT at YogaWorks with Maty Ezraty and Lisa Walford. Her THIRD 200 TT was with Stephanie Keach at Asheville Yoga Center. I guess you could say that she likes to be a student. Teaching classes since 2001, she has also been participating in and teaching teacher trainings, workshops and retreats regularly. An event planner for both YogaWorks and exhale center for sacred movement, Jen has planned over 150 retreats for herself and countless other teachers - not to mention her Group Fitness Management positions at several Equinox locations dating back to 2004. She has opened three clubs, supported thousands of teachers and members, and as an award winning program manager, she has created some of the most successful programing in the history of the company. At this point, esablishing a solid group fitness community is in her bloodstream.
Now, she offers you the best quality retreats by the most kind and generous teachers around. Her guarantee is that you will have a full retreat experience. It’s her intention, her hope, her vision, her prayer.