Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Engler.
Hi Jennifer, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
My name is Jennifer Engler and I am a St. Paul, Minnesota, based Coach, Teacher, Intuitive, Hypnotist and Reiki Master. The truth of who I am is that I am most at peace in the trees, the deep woods, in all of nature. This has always been true. I just forgot. It’s about the serenity I feel lying at the base of a tree and looking up the trunk to the far reaching branches while sensing into the mirror image of the roots beneath me. Trees are my pathway to interconnection and can always reconnect me to my sense of Oneness. Since 2020, I’ve been consciously walking my way back home, via these experiences that get me back to my simple truths.
I did everything I was supposed to do: good grades, advanced degree (PsyD in clinical psychology), marriage, house, child, increasing levels of responsibility in my career. My body caught up with me and forced the realization of my almost complete disconnection from my body, heart and soul. Along the way I had learned I was both sensitive and intense. Neither of which felt like gifts and far more so like burdens, to both myself and others. These truths set me on the path of the last 10 years, relearning how to be embodied, leaning into my gifts of reading and working with energy and opening up to expanded awareness, beyond the thinking mind, for guidance. They say to, “get quiet and listen” but I didn’t know what I was listening for, but now I do. Now, I just long to listen more, deeper and longer to the birds, the wind, my own awareness.
I continue to deepen my faith in my eternal soul and the learning and experiences it longs for while in my ‘Earth suit’. This is who I am to date and what I offer are practices to support my fellow travelers seeking to make similar shifts in remembering, relearning and resonating into what the body needs, the heart feels and the soul longs for. The practices I share are my own. As a healer, I always walk the path first and I will always be healing, learning, growing, evolving. I’ve learned that nothing is broken or wrong with me. It’s all just learning. Lessons I came here to learn. From my soul’s perspective, there is no blame, shame or guilt rather experiences designed to help me continue on my path. And without these lessons, I likely couldn’t or wouldn’t continue to learn, forgive and love. As one of my favorite teachers says, “Remember, this is an adventure, and we don’t know where these soul adventures will take us. Enjoy the ride. You are in good hands.”
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
My journey to my own healing and eventual spiritual awakening has been a deeply somatic one. After trying for over a decade to actually enjoy a yoga class and reap some of the benefits others seem to enjoy, I began to literally hate yoga. I would at times briefly feel some serenity at the end of class during the meditation, but the previous hour would be filled with agony and humiliation of trying to find my body in space well enough to hold a pose correctly or even at all.
But there was a yearning to continue this journey because I knew I was routinely leaving my body in my everyday life, and likely at my own physical and emotional peril. The pain of leaving my body led me to begin to pray that I could find a private teacher to heal the humiliation and help me be in my body. A friend told me about her yoga therapist who made her slow down and breathe. This sounded hard, but good, yet I was scared, really frightened about what I would not be able to do in my body and even if I could, what I might find there….
I took the leap and started working with Danielle De Pillis of Twelve Petals Wellness. What I have learned has been so profound. I realize that leaving my body has been my primary coping strategy, most of my life, and that really I was afraid of my own body, and as a result, creating my own chronic pain. As I worked therapeutically within the poses, finding my breath, learning to get and be grounded, and recognizing when I was not, as well as following the energy of my pain, I began to release the pain and became more aware of so much more in my life.
My body now guides me. After working with Danielle for about a year, I learned to almost fully inhabit my body, to realize when I was not grounded, to go to poses and hold mudras that help me get grounded, and to find and move energy in my body so that I can open, unwind, and soften. Today, I have a daily practice that helps me get grounded, release energy, and tightness, and find the sense of safety in my physical body. I feel incredibly blessed that I have these resources within myself to never again fully alienate myself from my body when I am overwhelmed by my emotions and the stressors of life. Rather, I can accept more of how emotional energy moves in and out of my body, and I can learn to unwind from it while learning to soften more into my experience rather than fight against it by leaving myself and my sacred home in my body.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I offer an energy-based approach to coaching, higher self alignment, hypnosis, teaching, and healing. I help my clients to:
follow what gives them energy and listen for their soul’s longing.
effectively ground and protect their energy for increased sustainability
discover what hijacks their energy and blocks their growth and inner knowing
heal and restore their energy to support themselves through change and uncertainty
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
I really believe in walking my talk. Everything I teach my clients, I learned for myself first and continue in my personal practice. Thus, I define success as my clients feeling safe and supported in large part through my authenticity. They know I am not asking of them or suggesting for them a path I have not first traveled. They are assured that I know exploring their own truths about what their body, heart and soul most want and need for greater peace, healing and contentment is not easy work. It takes time, courage, patience, and most of all deep self love and compassion. Ideally, our work together helps them feel more deeply supported by their own inner strength and self guidance as they move into greater alignment with their higher self and I am there as a fellow traveler with confidence in their ability to uncover their own truths as I have my own.
Pricing:
- https://www.jenniferengler.com/book-online
Contact Info:
- Website: https://jenniferengler.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjenengler/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferaengler/
- Other: https://www.jenniferengler.com/book-online
