We are always expanding, contracting and evolving in this unfolding human experience. Opening to acceptance on this journey connects us to deeper love, compassion and understanding towards ourselves and the collective and supports us all in moving forwards from a higher vibration. When we can feel this embodiment of love, this embodiment that we are enough, a softening happens. Energies like grief, sadness, fear and anger are met with expansion and warmth, creating an empowered cellular shift. It’s the expansion of the breath connected with our full presence and awareness of felt senses in the body that will always bring us back to our true selves.
From a very young age, through adolescence and into early adulthood I experienced a lot of sexual abuse and assault. There was a large part of me that really hated myself for a long period of time, allowing rage, shame, fear, mistrust, panic, criticism, unworthiness and judgement to sabotage my inner world. I was living life from a very sore, contracted and fragmented heart and this created a lot of disconnection, fear and scarcity within and outside of myself. I suppressed and repressed my truth until I was in a safe enough place to commit to my inner work. Somatic Healing, Transformational Life Coaching and Yoga have given me life changing tools to explore all parts of myself in deep love and compassion, reconnecting me back to my intuition, my inner strength and my empowered inner healer. This liberating journey of self-reclamation has led me to find forgiveness within and with all, opening up to the embodiment of truth, clear boundaries and resilience.
Pratavas is Sanskrit for Active, Strong and Powerful. It’s about belonging as your true self, awakening to your true power that’s always been there and having the courage to act from the heart. It’s about committing to yourself and taking radical responsibility, creating a more fulfilling and empowered life by moving forwards from a centered place of resilience and compassion.
Pratavas Movement classes help you open to an abundant flow of energy through feeling the breath and surrendering into the felt sense of stability to create sustainable expansion within the body.
My teachings come from a true place of embodied wisdom that empowers the high vibrational feminine and masculine qualities that live inside all of us through heart centered yoga and meditation practices, mobility and body awakening workouts and creative movement and breathwork practices that cultivate a balanced, liberating and united internal state.
What is good for you is good for everyone around you and every time you choose love, you're stepping into your true power. Love is composed of acknowledging the truth, creating healthy boundaries and choosing to move forwards in courage and compassion, embodying a strong, supported spine and a soft, open heart.
Jena completed her 200hr anatomy focused YTT and her 50hr Advanced Vinyasa Training from Shanti Yoga in Nelson, BC in 2020 as well as her 20hr Mobility Training online from Matt Phippen in 2023. She uses a lot of anatomy and somatic cues to help students bring awareness and awakening to sensations deep within their bodies, strengthening their innermost core muscles, while embodying expansion and connectedness. She also uses mantras and seed sounds that are supportive in healing, transforming and awakening the mind, body and soul. Her heart-centered style of teaching helps people to let go, feeling supported and stabilized in the release.
Jena continues to develop her knowledge of somatic healing, breathwork, energy work, sound healing, mobility and other various movement practices to create an empowering, healing and wholesome experience for people to feel harmony and belonging within themselves. Her teachings bring out the power of choice and the greatness that comes when you willingly make the choice to show up for you. Self-care is a building block of healing, which leads to gratitude and trust in something bigger than yourself. She supports students in embodying their truth and wisdom and cultivating acceptance in their experience on and off their mats. Her continuous commitment to growth allows her teachings to always be expanding and evolving, empowering everyone to rise above low vibrations and to step into their true power. When we are embodied and present, we are at home within ourselves, we are connected deeply to our hearts, living from a place of true alignment and authenticity.