Essence
Studio
If I were a house,
The flower picture above was taken by Jennifer Coomes
Classes with Jennifer...
are genuine, quality designed, organic, vitalistic, and spiritually created to help each individual student realize her or his own personal and authentic alignment, body awareness, energy, love, strength, confidence, beauty, peace, stillness, lightness, inner teacher, health, passion, and vital expression with safe and experienced teaching practices. We also try to laugh with each other, and with many people, it spreads...
Curious about Meditation and Yoga?
Here are some wonderful benefits of a sustained practice to the mind, body, and heart
- Creates a nourishing source of inner peace and gratitude
- Helps create relaxation, stability, stress reduction, vitality, emotional balance, and body awareness
- Reduces physical stress and tension
- Improves flexibility, alignment, and adaptability, both inner and physical
- Awakens your inner teacher and your authentic self, which helps strengthen intuition, clarity, self healing, and natural health
- Strengthens conscious awareness within, in connection to the community and the world
- Helps to create a practice in present moment awareness and encourages "noticing and observing" to settle the mind
- Helps spark creativity, innovation, new ideas, progress, and confidence within
- Strengthens and lengthens focus and attention which can be applied to areas of work, school, sports, listening, relationships, etc.
- Creates awareness and connection with "divine," "essence," "higher," or "godlike" self and expression
- Helps to breakdown destructive or limiting thought patterns or habits
- Stimulates positive and flowing energy, enducing and improving physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health
- Creates and strengthens connection to inner foundation, balance, centering, grounding, and breath.
- Helps you recognize and embrace your natural abundance, essence, talents, and gifts
- Creates foundation, tools, and practice in social awareness as well as vibrant and holistic heart health
Meditation and yoga, while it comes in many forms, reaches all. The tools help us connect with ourselves, each other, and the world with authenticity, love, richness, acceptance, and fullness. Personal practice helps us create foundation in ourselves, almost as a way to help us establish discipline in order to see the benefits in our mind, body, and heart. Community practice allows us to bring the personal practice to a place of connection and it is there where community can create unity. From there, we can truly realize how common we really are and that separation is an illusion. We also realize how much being in community can do amazing things for creating a healthier world...just by sitting together, moving together, being together, talking together, and even laughing together. So, I invite you, wherever you are at, in the midst of whatever challenge you may feel, to try it out, and just see what happens. It might be the best thing you ever did.
Special Inspiration on the practice of yoga and meditation by Paul Reynolds...
Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out. They are not required to enter here. Kiss your ego and allow it to be still. As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath, also take in this assurance. There is no need to achieve anything here. There is no need to defend anything here. This is a safe place. All is one, in breath and life. All is here now. If there is any request of you, it is to allow yourself to remain as present and as open as you can … to you!
It may be that you open wide to you today. It may be that you peek through a crack and find a glimpse of you today. The door opens as you are ready. No sooner. No later. And thus we create the connection – the yoga – between the anxiousness to see and the patience needed to wait for the understanding. It’s that space between the in-breath and the out-breath. It may be uncomfortable at times. Opening to ‘us’ can be so damned uncomfortable, but it is in this space that we remember and receive. Listen for it with your heart. Feel it in your body. Relish it with your spirit.
Private meditation and yoga instruction is provided on an outcall, at-home, outreach basis to create an individualized connection that assesses and works with the client's personal needs, health history, and goals. This is excellent for establishing a good foundation in the tools of meditation and yoga while progressing to a deeper practice. This type of instruction allows you to ask questions, receive guidance, develop your inner teacher, create your personal practice, and progress in a safe way towards health, trusting your inner wisdom, and self-awareness. Private instruction is provided for meditation or yoga individually or can be blended together in a session. Instruction is available in 30, 60, 90, or 120 minute single sessions and Wellness Packages are available. Click here for more information on pricing and payment options.
Making Your Appointment:
You can make your appointment with Jennifer Coomes by contacting her at 480.343.0949 or by email at jennifer@theessencestudio.com. In your message, just mention what type of session you would like (length; meditation, yoga, massage, or bodywork), any specific therapies you are interested in, your request day and time for appointment, and a brief summary of any health concerns regarding your desire for a massage/bodywork session or meditation/yoga instruction.
Meditation & Yoga Classes & Workshops:
Meditation and yoga classes and workshops are provided to the community on a regular basis to help educate on the foundations, natural health, and creative progress of these practices. For more information, click here for updates on classes and workshops near you.
Meditation & Healing Series:
Foundation: This series is primarily focused on using meditation as a practice of awareness, natural health, and wellness through exploration of your true being and inner wisdom. The individual workshops will blend explorations into meditation (awareness), breath, alignment, health patterns of disease and dis-ease, traditional chinese medicine (TCM), energy medicine, bodywork, movement, yoga, and mind-body awareness coupled with community conversation through a light-hearted, authentic, accepting, and engaging atmosphere to help create guidance, awakening of perspective, and connection to ourselves, our health, and each other. Each workshop is a process, building on the one before, but each also foundational in its concepts to share individually. Click here to see when and where this series will be offered near you!
Series Components
Tuning Into Center: An Earth Practice
Heart Intimacy: Awakening & Connection
Healing From The Inside Out: Sourcing Body Wisdom
Meditation & Movement: Awakening The Body's Voice
Here are a few comments shared by students who have taken this series or the individual workshops with Jennifer:
"Jen's Meditation and Healing workshop was such an awesome experience. I participated in the entire weekend...four workshops. I was really looking forward to it and it was better than I could imagine. I really like how she encouraged us to be open with our thoughts and feelings. Throughout the weekend we made a journal of those thoughts and could share them with others or just feel free to write them down. Jen's method of guiding this workshop keeps you interested and helps you get the most out of it. It's not a bunch of note taking and textbook teaching, it's interactive and allows you to use your own creativity and begin your meditation and healing journey. Jen is so inspiring and has such a calming spirit within her that radiates through her massage, meditation, and yoga practices. It's clear that she has a true desire to connect with you to guide you to a healthy, happy, and more fulfilling life. Thank you Jen!" ~Ginger
"Enlightening~Challenging~Difficult~Moving~Energizing...These are a few of the things I felt as I went through this workshop. Now I can say this has truly changed my life. Thanks Jen." ~James