The Essence Studio

It's the Place TO BE.tm

Essence serves Tempe, Arizona and surrounding communities with professional massage and bodywork  services, private massage, meditation and yoga instruction, and community classes, workshops, and retreats to help center, rejuvenate, and balance the mind, body, and spirit.  Refresh & Enjoy!

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Live Well.  Love Well.

Be Healthy.

 

The Essence Studio is currently a community outreach business created and owned by Jennifer Coomes and is based from Tempe, Arizona (no physical location).  Services and  instruction are provided as a outcall/at-home option or in locations around the valley. 

 

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About Jennifer       Contact Jennifer

 

If you want people to love,

you gotta create it.

 

Something to think about:

What makes love possible?

What does love make possible?

A Message by George Carlin

 

Ho'oponopono

Healing Through Radical

Total Responsibility

 

 

Meditation,

Massage, & Yoga

Classes,Workshops, & Retreats

Offerings from a Vitalistic perspective

with Jennifer Coomes, BA LMT RYT

Licensed Massage Therapist

Registered Yoga Teacher

1st Year Student, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine

 

 

2009 Offerings 

A Year of Simplicity

Why Simplicity?  Because it's the simplest practice to get back to our True Nature, Vital Force, Authentic Heart, & A Healthy Life...Embrace Simplicity & Embrace You!

 

 

Jennifer's

Weekly Yoga Classes

Look below for Weekly Class Themes

 

yoga photos of Jennifer by

Moments in Film & Randio Photography

 

 

 

All Levels Yoga

Mondays, 12-12:50pm

Wednesdays, 7-7:50am

Donations Accepted

at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine  in Tempe, AZ

For students of SCNM only

at this time.

For Beginners to Intermediate Students,

ie. Level I or Level I-II

 

Classes will be on summer hiatus from July 6th to August 17th.  Stay tuned for the Fall Schedule!

 

Rise and shine with this health and vital flow inspired class with Jennifer where you will learn the essential fundamentals of yoga in connection with breath, body, and energy alignment to help you recognize your inner teacher and enhance body awareness, core strength, centering, and self-confidence with spontaneous doses of laughter and fun!  Yoga is great for stress relief, body tension relief, and creating an inner grounding that enhances focus, good energy, good health, and clarity.  So get inspired, bring a great SCNM friend (the more the merrier!) and let's awaken, brighten, and inspire some great vibes in this great community class!  Your body, mind, heart, and spirit will thank you! :)
 

 

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 descriptions
 

Summer Season Flows:  

Your Inner Teacher

 

Current Flow

Flow:  Quality Sage Wisdom
Weds:  June 24th at SCNM
Friday:  June 26th at SCNM
Mon:  June 29th at SCNM
Weds:  July 1st at SCNM
 
"Sharpening Your Edge"
"Right Relationships"
"More Love Than You Know"
"Directed"
"Authentic"
"Open"
"One"
"Om"
"Hara"
"Awakening Balance of Earth & Spirit"
"Laughter Is Medicine To The Heart"
"Gratitude"
"SHINE"
 
From Foundation Up 
 
Weds (All Levels Yoga)
 
 
CLASS FLOW INSPIRATION
 
AZ State Massage Board Meeting
 
Mona Morstein, ND
 
Self-Care
 
Forgiveness, Humanness, Healing
 
Good Personal and Professional Boundaries
 
Purging and Transformation
 
Letting Go and Simplicity
 
Open Mic Night at SCNM
Sharing "Jai Ambe" and "Om Namah Shivaya" mantras, letting their song come naturally
 
Listening to Robby Roberson play guitar/sing at Extreme Bean...great tunes!  Always inspired by "Fine Line"
 
Yin/Yang Yoga with Jeff Martens at Innervision Yoga
 
"Education is not about facts, it's about attitudes."
~Dr. Weisbuch
 

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Community Circles

Inspiring Events

Inspiring Health & Community

 

 

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The Essence Vision

To inspire life, vibrant and vital health, vital force, creativity, community, and freedom of expression through movement, healing, and self awareness.

 

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The Essence Studio, created and owned by Jennifer Coomes, was formerly a holistic wellness & movement studio offering yoga, dance, massage & bodywork, and holistic counseling in Tempe, Arizona from July 2005 to February 2006.  Essence, now a traveling vision, is devoted to helping to build healing & healthy communities where vitality flourishes.  With deep and authentic gratitude to all of the people and spiritual work that have brought healing, cleansing, simplicity, love, support, and sustainability to Essence, Jennifer respects and honors her role with Essence in helping to enhance and provide space for thriving Vital Force and vibrant and natural health in our communities and in the world.

Namaste.

 

Tips to Embracing a Supportive Network Supporting Health,

Vitality, & Prosperity:

 

  • The universe is abundant with support, affirm that it's there for you and let it guide you toward the perfect fit for vibrant health, vitality, and prosperity in your life!
  • Surround yourself with like minds who speak the same language and support you with positive energy.  They will offer great celebration to your success and help guide you when you need extra perspective
  • Know that health, vitality, and prosperity already resides within you.  It's simply a practice to see it, breath it, and live it everyday of your life.
  • Loosen and release negative energies and thought patterns that might be obstacles or blockages to your vitality and prosperity.  You may not even be aware of them, so a great place to start might be to say "I release negative energy, obstacles, etc...to health, vitality, prosperity in my life."  Continue until you begin to feel change.  If you feel yourself lifting into "good space," you're heading in the right direction :) 
  • Release the outcome, think big, it just might get better than you imagined!
  • To commit, do one thing everyday that supports your healthy life and prosperity practice.  It could be daily meditation, exercise, affirmations, laughing, walking in nature, eating healthy foods, hugging friends, saying I love you.  Doing something everyday builds commitment, creates change, builds your inner practice, and it just might change a piece of the world at the same time.  Just imagine if lots were doing it :)
  • Practice gratitude, appreciate the beauty of life in and around you.  Breathe it in, Breathe it out. Share!

 

 

Speak Passion, Live Passion, Be Peace.

Awaken

Say I Love You.

Let the stories go.

Be bold, be honest.

Chuck the Ego

Say the unsaid (because it's said anyway)

There's a way through it

Rest, Absorb, Integrate

Walk Light

Remember Snoopie

See the mirror, See yourself.

Touch, Embrace, Listen.

It's okay.

Do everything with love,

even if you have to let love go

Live and Break the confines

Let the walls dissolve.

In Grace, power emerges.

Silence is Space

Connection is oneness.

Conversation is an opportunity to awaken.

Intimacy is a courageous meeting

of one soul opening

of two souls seeing

a oneness meeting

Sit and Meet Eyes before saying a Word

Be beautiful to someone, to you

Say I love you again

And hold like you are willing to stay awhile.

Stay in the moment

Have the conversation...In Person.

Then sit, breathe, listen.

Listen again.

Talk only when you have listened.

Be patient on the days you don't.

Love yourself anyway.

It's okay to cry.

You are held on the days you fall.

Falling is only a rest to see again.

See again.

Dance

Awaken your voice.

Let it Breathe

Let voices work together

Each whole, Each valued

Embrace the trust in you

Receive love

Your life is worth it.

Kindness is a choice.

Ask questions, state less.

But state concisely.

Realize the personal

is only the pain of the past

coming to say hello

allowing you to set it free

Share a cup of tea.

Honor your life and breath

Realize that most differences

are mostly needs.

And needs are only fears.

And fear is only forgetting

that we are okay anyway.

Isolation is only the confusion

of reaching out or staying in

but Aloneness

is a happiness with you

Trust that you are loved

even if the world

forgets how to show it

We are here to remember

Don't be afraid of intense people,

they laugh too.

Find the kid in you

Live Innocence

Bridge Life, Bring Light

Laugh

Love

Live

Be.

 

And laugh again

Laughter is medicine to the heart.

 

written by Jennifer Coomes

 

 

Original writing, content, and photos

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The Essence Studio, LLC.

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by Jennifer Coomes

 

Website Nature Photography

by Jennifer Coomes.

Bodywork and Yoga photography

of Jennifer was taken by

Randi Ostro and Jim Kirklin.

 

Special thank you to Jim Kirklin, Joel Brame, Tracey & David Mulnix, and Carrie Hensley for sharing their cameras and friendship in helping to make these pictures possible.