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"Discovery" flower photography by jennifer coomes
About Jennifer Contact Jennifer
Essence celebrates 3 years in service to the community! Thank you so much for your support and inspiration, I've been immensely grateful for the opportunity to grow this business and myself to a place of health and vitality. It's come a long way and continues to build and share in the community, and I continue to encourage you to take a proactive part in your health and radiant vitality with massage, bodywork, meditation, and yoga. It is truly transformative and healing, and it gives you the tools to awaken and grow a vibrant life in your true nature with more freedom, happiness, and confidence. So keep living, supporting, learning, laughing, and loving, and I look forward to sharing with you gratefully along the way!
To Your Vibrant Health! Namaste & God Bless, Jennifer
Look Below for Anniversary Specials!
New Workshops, Specials, & Inspiration for a Vital & Vibrant Life Below!
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If you want people to love, you gotta create it.
Something to think about: What makes love possible? What does love make possible?
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Embracing Abundance, Prosperity, and Vibrant Health! Committing to a Healthy Life Practice
How Massage & Bodywork can help you rejuvenate! written by Jennifer Coomes BA LMT RYT
Tips to Embracing a Supportive Network Supporting Health, Vitality, & Prosperity:
It's the 3rd Anniversary of Essence! It's Time to Celebrate with Health & Life!
Committing to your health with regular sessions
of massage, bodywork, meditation, and yoga is great for instilling and maintaining a continuous and nutritious source of vital flow in the body, mind, and spirit. When you take a proactive step to caring for you and your body, you strengthen your inner wisdom and capacity for self-healing & vitality!
July Anniversary Specials!
90 minute session for $70
5 session Wellness Package
(60min sessions) for $200
Special ends July 30, 2008!
*Wellness package has 6 month expiration
*Sessions can be used for massage and bodywork therapies or personal instruction in meditation and yoga with Jennifer Coomes
Cash, Check, PayPal Accepted
NEW in July 2008! Massage and bodywork sessions as well as private yoga and meditation instruction are available with Jennifer at Inside the Bungalow in Mesa, AZ (in addition to outcall/at-home services). ITB is a historic renovated home serving as a retreat-like yoga studio and cafe that is located in downtown Mesa across from the Arizona Museum for Youth. Click on the above links for more info!
Meditation & Yoga Classes,Workshops, & Retreats with Jennifer Coomes, BA LMT RYT Licensed Massage Therapist Registered Yoga Teacher
Partner Yoga & Meditation Workshop with Jennifer Coomes & Carrie Hensley
Friday, August 8th, 2008, Note Time Change! 7-9:30pm
Early Paid Registration by Friday, August 1st! $30 per couple/pair Regular Registration after August 1st: $40 per couple/pair
For online registration, click here
Come join us in this fun, integrative, community, and empowering workshop blending the connective and nourishing practice of partner yoga, massage, and meditation. We'll explore body movement and connection in unity to experience spaciousness, peace, health & vibrant energy, heart centering, and alignment. Come play, connect, explore, and enjoy!
Partner Yoga is Great for All!
Jennifer's Weekly Yoga Classes
48 N. Robson Mesa, AZ 85201 (Across from the Arizona Museum for Youth) 480.844.2353 Single Class: $12 NEW Students: 2 weeks of Unlimited Yoga for $25! Try the ITB Yoga Lifestyle Challenge!
NEW! Jennifer also now offers private instruction in meditation and yoga at Inside The Bungalow (as well as outcall/at-home services). Click here for more information on sessions, packages, and pricing!
Vinyasa w/ Restorative Saturdays 11am-12:50pm 1hr Yoga Flow 50minutes Restorative Yoga For Beginners to Intermediate Students, ie. Level I or Level I-II
Join Jennifer for this great restorative flow blended class of yoga flow and restorative yoga designed to encourage, renew, and restore the natural flow of health, energy, and movement in a relaxing, interactive, and engaging community environment welcoming to all levels of practice!
Vinyasa Sundays 8-9:20am For Intermediate Students, ie. Level I-II
As a deepening of your practice, come and enjoy this rise and shine Sunday morning class with Jennifer where you will learn how to "link postures with proper breathing techniques to create a dynamid fluid practice." Though not recommended for beginners, this class is appropriate for anyone who has a good basic foundation in yoga and feels comfortable in an active yoga flow practice.
FUNdamentals Sundays 9:30-10:50am For Beginner Students, ie. Level I
In this class with Jennifer, you'll learn "basic breathing techniques, yoga postures, and proper alignment in a relaxed non-competitive environment" to experience a healthy source of yoga, foundation, and inspiration to live your unique rhythm, flow, and joy! Recommended for beginners and anyone wanting to refresh the foundations of your yoga practice.
Look below for weekly class themes.
Substitute Teaching Schedule Where Jennifer is teaching meditation and yoga classes around the valley as a sub for the normal teacher. Come and enjoy!
photo by Jim Kirklin
Weekly Meditation & Yoga Class Themes Look above for class location, times, and description
Summer Flow Class Series at Inside The Bungalow with Jennifer: Jumpstarting & Awakening Your Vibrant Summer!
Flow: Elasticity 6/22/08 (Sunday-Inside the Bungalow)
"Being Like Water" "Let There Be Flow" "Work With Gratitude" "Making Necessary Changes with A Smile" "It's Bigger Than You...Just Listen" "Working Together" "Meditate" "Enormous Respect for Yourself translates into Enormous Respect for Others"
So what are the problems we are trying to solve? More than anything else I've seen, it's the crimes of the heart. Whether it's been broken, damaged, closed off, ignored, rejected, or just misunderstood, most of what we do or say is related to the expression of the heart. Our happiness, health, and joy is related to the heart. Our abuses are related to the heart. Our feelings and thoughts (if we believe them) are related to the heart. What we find ourselves doing for a living and how we do it could even be related to the heart. What we care about and what we don't care about is also coming from our heart. So if so many things, so many actions, so much of who we are comes from our heart, then the question remains, just how well are you taking care of it? What kind of priority are you making it in your life?
Essence
The heart is a voice. If you want to keep it pure and vibrant, it must be cleansed, practiced, and used. As the saying goes "home is where the heart is" but if we are not aware of our heart, how can we have a home? If you don't know where your heart is, how do you have life? Our bodies help us function, our mind helps us reason, our spirit helps us transcend, our soul helps us evolve, but our heart helps us live. LIVE. and LOVE. LIFE and LOVE. As you get back to it, and onto it, and in it, you'll begin to understand what you've been missing, and what's been holding you back. It's almost as if your heart starts speaking back to you, unleashing all of the secret unknowns you didn't see or understand before. If you have ever been overwhelmed by pain, anguish, or struggle, it's hard to be in the heart fully, because most of the time, you are just getting through. So when we are in those times, its almost like a deciphering mode, a survival mode, because we couldn't possibly understand the range of all the experiences fully. As we come into consciousness, however, this is the time when our heart can take over.
Rise
Look How Far You've Come
Get Into the Driver's Seat
With Grace By Your Side
Start Your Engines
And DRIVE.
In health, with gratitude and love, Jennifer
SUNDAY (Vinyasa)
Mantra Expression
Om together Shanti Om together Om together
Music
Nature
Class Focus
Meditation with Class Theme, Relationship to The Watercourse Way (Taoism) Elasticity with Muscles and Fascia Groundwork Core Strength and Bandhas Hip Opening
SUNDAY (FUNdamentals)
Mantra Expression
Om together
Music
Nature
Class Focus
Meditation with Class Theme Elasticity in Muscles and Fascia Core Strength with Bandhas Foundation in Feet with Stabilization in Core Flow in Sun Salutations Balance, working with tree and straps Restorative Tree with Adjustments Savasana
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
KLove & AirOne Radio Stations
License Plate: Try God
to End National Health Care Crisis article supporting Yoga Health Foundation
Yoga and Enhanced Clarity, Memory, & Attention Skills
Inspiring Science Teachers: Thank you for your motivation, support, time, and knowledge in helping to make my summer classes successful. You are greatly and truly appreciated! Steve Borick PhD Mike Thomas PhD
Summer Solstice Day Retreat
Special Gratitude to Carrie Hensley and Inside the Bungalow
"Thread" Series Sunday Sermon with Ron Merrill at Cornerstone Christian Church Ron's sermons have been a great and uplifting inspiration to me on my own journey and I wish him and his family many good wishes and blessings in his new adventures with mentoring/ministering to junior high kids
Thank you to my friend Jim Kirklin for hosting a wonderful trip to Santa Cruz and showing me new amazing ways to enhance my love of photography. Most of my photography is taken of objects (mostly flowers) that are only millimeters to a few centimeters wide, and as I started, I simply couldn't believe the intricacies I found. So, it is with great gratitude that I've had blessed opportunities to explore and the chance to share them with you. I look forward to one day having a camera of my own, but in the meantime, I continue to thank all of the wonderful friends who have shared theirs and have taught me so much along the way. It's been wonderfully healing and wonderfully fascinating and fun, and I've appreciated every minute of it. A great thank you also goes out to Mark Stephens as well for wonderful yoga classes to keep me healthy and vibrant on my journey. I always love to come back to One Yoga, and if you every get to Santa Cruz, I highly recommend it...it's a home away from home! Thank you for a wonderful long-awaited visit!
Chant shared in Mark Stephens Sunday morning class: Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudeva "Om, I bow to the awakening of consciousness"
Happy Independance Day! Flow: What are You Feeding? 7/6/08 (Saturday- Inside the Bungalow) 7/7/08 (Sunday-Inside the Bungalow)
"Creating A Healthy Flow" "Yoga, Meditation, and Health" "Play, Health, and Life" "Nature and Natural" "Gratitude and Love" "GOD BLESS AMERICA"
A Guiding Principle of Yoga: "To Be At Ease"
Using Your Ease to Create Health & Vitality
YES YOU CAN!
OPEN the Doors to Love WIDE Open
Expand GRATITUDE in ALL Directions
Trust
And Make Your Dreams Come True.
SATURDAY (FUNdamentals)
Class Flow & Focus Beginning Meditation with Theme Om Together Breath with Arm Flow Modified Child's Pose Cat/Cow with Uddiyana Bandha Cat/Cow with Alternate Arm/Leg Lift Child's Pose with Torso Stretch & Adjustments Vertebrae Roll Hip/Torso Stretch Spine Roll Frog Balance Pose Sun Salutations Mountain Pose with Standing Meditation Mula and Uddiyana Bandha Knee to Chest with Strap with Bandha Holds Walking Practice Tree & Partner Tree Cool down on Mat with Hip Circles Alternate Arm and Leg Raise with Core Strengthening Torso Stretch with Adjustements Savasana Shanti Om-Call & Response Om Together
Music
Album: Shakti Rhythms- Energizing the Flow of Yoga compiled by Shiva Rea
SATURDAY (Vinyasa & Restorative)
Class Flow & Focus Beginning Meditation with Theme Breath with Arm Flow Modified Child's Pose Lift into Cat/Cow Neck Rolls and Spinal Warmup Coaching on Inner Teacher & Rhythm Child's Pose with Torso Stretch with Adjustments Vertebrae Roll Camel Prep and Camel with Adjustments Child's Pose Cat/Cow Transition to Downward Facing Dog Hip Opening Warrior A/1 Straight Leg Hamstring Stretch Warrior B/2 Reverse Warrior Triangle Lunge Leg Switch Repeat Sequence Warrior A to Lunge Forward Fold Spinal Roll Up, Hands to Heart Center Tree & Partner Tree Om Together Restorative Heart Opener with Adjustments Restorative Sidelying with Adjustments Savasana with Shoulder Compress, Neck Lift, and Third Eye Hold Shanti Om-Call & Response Om Together
Music
Albums: Shakti Rhythms- Energizing the Flow of Yoga compiled by Shiva Rea A Day Without Rain by Enya
SUNDAY (Vinyasa)
Class Flow & Focus Meditation with Class Theme Gayatri Mantra-Call & Response Om Shanti Om together Hamstring/Hip Stretches with Strap with Adjustments (with "jiggleasana" a coin phase shared by a student :) Layback on Mat with Mula & Uddiyana Bandha Breath of Fire Alternate Arm/Knee and Leg Raise Hip Circles Torso Twist Supported Plow and Shoulder Stand Leg Traction Adjustment Spinal Rolling Cat/Cow with Lengthened Breath Child's Pose with Torso Twist and Adjustments Savasana with Shoulder Compression, Neck Lift, and Third Eye Compression Gayatri Mantra teaching and chant (call and response and together) Om Shanti Om Together
Music
Album: The Best of George Harrison
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
Shiva Rea's Website Opening Video (as the words for this theme came to me spontaneously after driving home from my Organic Chemistry class, it brought me back to a vision this video...it's titled Yoga as Conscious Evolution, click on the link for inspiration!)
My supportive teachers for my summer classes who have motivated and inspired me (and kept me smiling) through 5 long and quick weeks of intense science classes and hurdles while living on a tight budget...thank you so much! You are wonderful teachers and highly recommended for any students wanting excellent knowledge in biology and chemistry with down-to-earth approach and understanding of students. Steve Borick PhD Michael Thomas PhD
A great thank you to Chandler Gilbert Community College for helping to make my summer classes possible.
Thank you to my wonderful friends who have supported me and my journey to med school. Thank you with much love for believing in me and helping when I've needed it along the way. It's helped me take everything one day and one step at a time to keep my dream manifesting.
by Brandon Heath
The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular
Tempe Town Lake Fireworks in Arizona
REO Speedwagon
My clients and students, thank you for expanding my horizons and sharing your great spirits and gifts!
Album: Fortress by Sister Hazel
"Thread" Series at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship "Proverbs 4:23-Above all else, guard your heart because it will guide everything you do" "if your heart doesn't beat fast over the all the things that makes God's heart beat fast for, then there's a chance that you could be leading yourself on a trainwreck path" "the heart: something you can learn from others, either you have it or you don't" "when talents exceed your heart, life is like a trainwreck" "talent and ability will not get you to the finish line, your heart will" "What are we guarding our heart from?" "guarding our heart has to do with where we put our hope" "hope will never be deferred when your hope and heart are in jesus christ" "God has designed you to be apart of the great hope for the nations" "What has your heart?" "Could you leave the "stuff" and follow God?" "be cautious about what you download into your life..what you bring in is what you will give out" "tend the soil of your heart and what roots in your heart will grow up"
Flow: Mettatate Metta + Meditation 7/12/08 (Saturday- Inside the Bungalow) 7/13/08 (Sunday- Inside the Bungalow)
"Get it UP" "Get it STANDING" "Get it ALIVE!" "YES!"
Solid In Love
Solid In Faith
Solid In Life
Working On You
Liberation
SATURDAY (Vinyasa & Restorative)
Class Flow (to be continued)
Meditation with Theme Ganapati Om Jaya (chant): Call & Response Om Together
Music
Album: Peace, Earth, & Guitars by Darren Curtis Skanson
SUNDAY (Vinyasa)
Class Flow (to be continued)
Meditation with Theme Ganapati Om Jaya (chant): Call & Response Om Together Arms Up from Seated, Down, Repeat Arms Up, Down to Modified Child's Pose Lift Up to Cat/Cow Neck Circles Warm Up Cat/Cow with Breath & Inner Rhythm Down on Forearms, Alternating Leg Lift with Cat/Cow Downward Facing Dog
Music
Album: Peace, Earth, & Guitars by Darren Curtis Skanson
SUNDAY (FUNdamentals)
Class Flow (to be continued)
Meditation with Theme Om Together
Music
Album: Beat the Border by Geoffrey Oryema
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
Teaching Meditation & Yoga
Thai Massage Workshop at Inside The Bungalow: thank you to Nancy and Melissa for being my wonderful partners!
Yoga class with Ingrid Ortega
Flow: A Season for Love 7/19/08 (Sat at ITB will have sub due to workshop, click here for the online schedule) 7/20/08 (Sunday-Inside the Bungalow)
"A Creation" "Take My Hand, and I'll Show You My Heart" "Friendship"
Building Good Equity
Renewal
A Bright New Horizon
SUNDAY (Vinyasa)
Music Album: Pilgrim Heart by Krishna Das
SUNDAY (FUNdamentals)
Music Album: Shakti Rhythm--Flow with the Pulse of Life compiled by Shiva Rea
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
Passing Organic Chemistry!! :) Now, I'm on my way to naturopathic med school! Yea!!
The adventures of moving, meeting great new people and friends, appreciation and gratitude, balance, and expanding my horizons
Rockaroake at the Yucca Tap Room
"Listen if you can stand to. Union with the friend means not being who you have been, instead, silence, a place, a view, where language is inside, seeing" ~Rumi shared within a July newsletter from Yoga Soup in Santa Barbara, CA
Meditation and Healing Weekend Workshop Series at Inside the Bungalow
A special gratitude to Inside The Bungalow for their continuous support, listening, openness, and expansiveness
RENT: The Musical
Dancing Meditation Mix compiled by Jennifer Coomes "Time After Time" by Cassandra Wilson connection "Woman's Work" by Kate Bush intimacy "A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos empowerment "Have A Little Faith In Me" by Thomas Hyatt faith "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence alive "Stating Intention" by Peter Kater & Carlos Nakai introspection "God Over Moving Waters" by Moby body as moving art: transformation "Quietude" by Peter Kater & Carlos Nakai stillness "Fever" by Peggy Lee listening "Let It Be" by The Beatles listening "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles listening
This Week's Flow Flow: Space 7/26/08 (Saturday-Inside The Bungalow) 7/27/08 (Sunday-Inside The Bungalow)
"metta-morphisis"
As I'm taking some introspective and quiet time this week to get centered, unpacked, and organized before I begin medical school next week, I found myself inspired to call my dad. We hadn't talked to each other in awhile with my busy schedule with school, and most of the time the conversation starts off quiet on his end, but this time as soon as he knew it was me (we both have some of the same hearing impairment so our phone conversations are a great way to improve on how I communicate), he immediately began talking and letting me know how he was. I was fascinated how at ease and comfortable it was to catch up, as if we hadn't missed any time at all. As he continued to talk, I realized how much I missed talking to my dad. I began to think, "Why hadn't I picked up the phone earlier?" especially when I could have probably used his voice during the stressful parts of the last few months. It's funny the stories we give ourselves that get in the way of really fulfilling our needs in healthy ways.
My dad and I reconnected again a few years ago after 20 years apart (I was found by my half-sister on classmates.com :), and as I began to get to know him again, I realized how big a part of me was missing by not having him in my life. It was as if I was getting to know myself again as I was getting to know him. I began to understand what parts of me were like him, and what made me part of him and him part of me. My dad is the kind of of man that holds alot of wisdom and understanding, but he doesn't always tell you, it's when you sit and take the time to listen to him that you get it. I always love and appreciate spending father-daughter time with him because we really talk and connect and enjoy each other's company. So in this particular conversation, he's telling me how much better he's eating (he's diabetic and has had two heart attacks) and he's thinking about slowing down from doing all of the hard and heavy work his done for 30 years (he's changed semi trailer tires for all this time), I realize how glad I am that he is making some changes to stay healthy. I can't help but be supportive because I love him and I want to see him happy and healthy in his life. He reminds me to slow down too, relax and listen...that this conversation is important and our time together is important. He tells me about going fishing, and I realize I want him to teach me to fish. I'm allergic to fish, but I don't care. It's something he loves and enjoys, and if he is sharing it with me, it's something we'll love and enjoy together (well, hopefully if I don't tackle something when I throw my bait :)
He reminds me that it's a waste of precious time being angry and holding anger doesn't allow us to have the relationships we really want to have now, in this moment. So as he's trying to re-explain what happen over those lost 20 years, I simply say to him, "But dad, I'm not angry at you." Every thing you have said and given me with your time and character tells me that I trust you. I understand. What you are to me now is what is important. I know you tried, I know you cared. I know you still do. That is what matters to me.
Get Simple
Get Clear
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
talking with my dad
thank you to my friends and family who have helped me get started with medical school on the right footing and have supported me with your love, faith, encouragement, and gifts along the way
Album: Home by Dixie Chicks
Album: Wake Up & Smell the Coffee by The Cranberries
Song, "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers |
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