Join a Virtual Workshop

If you sign up before September 15th and are based in the US— I will be gifting you a flower essence of your choice to work with during the series. Look for my email in the days after you sign up!

In this 5 week workshop series, we will dive into the body— our earthbody— through story and conscious breath, uncovering what is still alive and pulsing in the midst of violence, illness, and great loss. Enter the still point and clarify what your individual body needs in order to keep showing up for yourself and the collective simultaneously. What is breathing in the collapse? What parts of your body stories serve you, and which parts are asking for a re-write? What can we learn from land, plants, and animals as we continue through these change times?

Guided by our wise bodies, resilient, adaptive landscapes, and the more-than-human world of animals and plants, we will listen for and translate the stories of the human-bodies and land-bodies while remaining open to how that story shifts and transforms, births and breaks, blooms and goes to seed. Alone and together, we will explore how connection to breath, body, earth, and story can expand our capacity to be with chaos, hopelessness, and impossible times while also opening to hope, possibility, and renewal.

We will read together, write together, practice restorative and enlivening breath practices, and then write a bit more together, with space for sharing if you wish—though sharing is never required.

Bring your tired bodies, your wounded bodies, your pain bodies, your grief bodies to be held and listened to through intentional creative and somatic practice. Through these gatherings, we will nurture resiliency and adaptation, awaken aliveness, and deepen trust and communication as pathways into revitalization and collective transformation. It is a space for both grief and celebration, pain and joy, pausing and action.

This workshop is equal parts creative writing practice and breath meditation practice. It is open to all writers and creatives– whether you have an active creative practice or want to begin one. It is also open to all levels of breath and meditation practice– whether you have an active meditation practice or want to begin one. 

I recommend you join the live sessions as much as possible as it will be generative to be together in real time but a recording will be sent out after each session in case you can not make one. There will also be an invitation to practice and write in between sessions to deepen your experience and will simultaneously be mindful of our busy lives.

$225 is the true cost of the class.

There are additional sliding scale access points for $200, $175, and $150.

If you are currently unemployed/ underemployed and would like to partake, I am reserving 3 spots at $100. Please email me to see if they are still open. Please be mindful when booking so everyone can access as needed and I can be appropriately compensated.

I so appreciate how you hold space & show up in the world. You have made such an impact on my healing journey & how I navigate self care & dealing with my trauma. Thank you for being so open, deep, political, not afraid of the deep dark & for encouraging & showing ways to connect & feel.” – Caeleb

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“I have taken a lot of your workshops over the years and they have been foundational in the way I’ve learned to care for myself. I bring the practice of breath work with me everywhere, but I still love being in the practice space you create and getting to do it on a set schedule with a group every week is ideal." — M

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"In the group and individual breathwork sessions I’ve done with Jennye, I have found her remarkably skillful at creating a safe space to let people feel and express what they need to feel and express. I think part of it is that her caring and authenticity comes through and helps you get as honest with yourself as you need to get." — Michael

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“It was exactly what I needed at the time to release a lot of heavy grief. I felt very safe and supported in the space you held and I’m grateful I attended. The way in which you honor the breath, its roots, and the community as a whole is evident in the way you speak about it and present your practice and your web page. It is very refreshing to experience a space that is so breath and community centered. As I evolve my own practice, your work is an inspiration of inclusion, integrity, and authenticity. Just sharing a note of gratitude, admiration and thanks.” —S.

“I’ve taken both of Jennye’s breathwork and writing classes this past year, and felt transformed by them both. There’s something about the combination, the sequence—grounding first in some inspirational writing, then using breath to go deep into the body, then a question as prompt—that unlocks words I didn’t know were there. And the breath, the breath connects things—inside me and outside world—in a way that’s clear, deep, unprecedented, potent. I find I’ve grown more comfortable with those words, made friends with the things my body has to say, and found bolder and freer ways to connect to and play with them. I’ve been in an active writing process for a few years now, and produced some work I’m proud of. But these workshops help me access something that is deeply resonant, and remind me that if I listen, if I breathe into it, my body has some big things to say. I have some big things to say.” – Jenn

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“Before joining up for In the Dark, I had been experiencing a period of intense loneliness and grief. On the surface, I was looking for a course that would help me return to my writing practice while also nourishing my physical self through breath or movement. Unconsciously l was searching for a community where I felt held and witnessed. 

I found all three with Jennye and the In the Dark community.  I have participated in many writing workshops and programs over the years, but I have never experienced the level of support and encouragement I received from Jennye and the beautiful online ITD community. 

Jennye has created a truly embodied course that offers a safe and supportive harbour, one that I have been able to carry with me long after our cohort said our virtual goodbyes.

Connecting to folks on the other side of the world who were inviting the darkness of night in and moving through the depths of winter, while I was welcoming the morning and the summer sun in my part of the world — it was a special kind of magic. It somehow illuminated our shared humanity, and it gave me hope, and joy, and permission to sit with sadness and grief. 

It is something I continue to cherish and I often find myself thinking of my online friends, wondering how they are, remembering their shared words, experiences and resilience. 

If you are in need of community and practices to help sustain and nourish you in these strange and overwhelming times, you will find them with Jennye and her virtual offerings. I know I will return again and again.” — Melissa, Canaipa/Russell Island, Quandamooka Country, Australia