Jen came across her first yoga practice when needing to find support after a running injury between marathon trainings in 2009.

She quickly found that practicing asana (especially Bikram and Power Yoga) was much more technically involved than she had first anticipated, and began finding empowerment through moving her body in new ways.

In 2010, Jen completed her 200hr YTT with Core Power Yoga through one of their military spouses programs where she then began teaching to Fort Carson’s units during morning PT hours. Jen was excited to see how well the yoga asana practice could fit in to the military lifestyle and began to volunteer her time teaching at the other duty stations, such as Yongsan, SEOUL Korea, and West Point, NY where she even helped asking Commanders to help teach in hopes to lower numbers of profiles for soldier injured during physical activities and PT routines.

In 2018 she completed her 300hrYTT with nOMad: always at OM with TRIBE’s co-founder, Phoebe Leona and began to find a deeper meaning to the yoga practice-beyond the mat.

She currently resides with her family in San Antonio, TX where her husband recently retired.