You were born wild
You were born ready to enter into the fullness of being alive
Eager to feel and taste and discover the joy of adventure
Craving to feel the boundaries of your body in this living mystery
Thirsty for understanding how your body moves through space
Intent on allowing your soul the freedom to touch the earth
Hungry to experience this wild life
You were born wild
But you've lost touch, haven't you?
Your world has gotten smaller, not bigger.
You’ve watched your body atrophy, grow stiff.
You’ve forgotten the pleasure of playing in the dirt and climbing trees and putting your feet in a stream.
You feel the tug of convention and you feel obliged to follow it.
You feel a little lost, out of touch, like something is missing.
You’re not living the way you meant to be living.
Your body’s not moving the way it’s meant to be moving.
And the clock keeps ticking.
This isn’t what you want for yourself
Having lost touch with your wild side has left your body hurting, your soul hurting, your relationships hurting, your planet hurting.
Your spend your time inside the safety of your four walls instead of traversing new terrain.
You spend your time shrinking your abilities instead of challenging yourself in new ways.
You spend your time living the way you think you SHOULD be living instead of living the way your entire being desires.
You spend your time treating symptoms and ailments instead of changing the world.
You are wild at heart
The spirit is wild at heart. The body is wild at heart.
You can feel it. You can remember. You sense the fire within, the spark, the feeling of aliveness.
But you don’t know how to fan the flame. You don’t know how to wake up the inner guide, the inner wisdom, the inner mover and shaker.
You haven’t yet found the permission to move how you want to move, live how you want to live, be who you really want to be.
You CAN restore your wild.
I know what this is like.
I know what it means to feel half alive. I know what it’s like to feel like the world is small and that your body isn’t taking you where you want to go. I know what it’s like to have the sense that there is more for you but to feel the body and the heart and the mind and the entire world is set up to keep you small, to keep you safe, to keep you domesticated.
But you're not really domesticated, are you?
Your feet were born unshod, the better to feel the shape of wild earth.
Your skin longs to meet the heat of the wild sun.
Your hands want to grip the branch of a tree, the rock on the ground.
Your body longs to wake up, to rediscover the movements it was born to make, to literally climb to new heights and to take you to the edges of your boundaries so that you can live the life you really want.
Introducing
~ a five month program ~
I just finished my five months of Restore Your Wild. It was a very deep and transformative five months. As usual, Jen addresses both body and mind in this course. Some of the body work is crazy intense. I would say a higher level than your regular Restorative Exercise bolster angels and calf stretches. The mind work is equally advanced. You get to look at many aspects of your whole life including your community, creativity, work, etc. and assess to see where you can bring in more wildness. The exercises such as "getting dirty" are very eye opening on where and how we resist the wildness/change. Thanks to Jen and RYW, I let go of a lot of bullshit beliefs, released guilt and shame, and faced many fears. I got stronger physically and mentally. Fear and shame do not rule my life anymore and that is what makes me more WILD. Jen can help anyone become more wild in whatever ways wild means to you.
Joanna from Park Ridge, IL
5 Movement Masterclasses
Take your movement skills to a whole new level with these video masterclasses so you can connect what’s happening on the mat with how you move in the natural world
10 Wild Workshops
From deepening your rest to squatting to pee, use these classes to increase your wild quotient and move beyond the mat
20 Resilient Resets
Weekly audios that challenge your assumptions, take you deep into yourself and inspire you toward the life you love so you can enhance your resilience as you get your nature on
Heart-Centered Guidance
This isn’t about no pain, no gain; this is about being held in love so you know you’ll never be bullied, shamed or overworked
High-Quality Downloadables
Use these downloads to enhance your learning on the go so you can hone your skills and practice wherever suits your wild self
Weekly Inspiration & Support
Emails, videos, live webcasts…these will ensure you stay connected and keep moving in the direction you desire
Live Movement Meetups
Get the online support you need to ask questions and connect with others in the program to make sure nothing slips through the cracks
Permission to Be You
You won’t change without a vision, without a witness, without the belief that you get to be you
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The program costs $225 per month
That includes all 5 Movement Masterclass, all 10 Wild Workshops, all 20 Resilient Resets PLUS so much more!
Restore Your Wild is about owning who you really are.
It’s about the freedom to choose more, if that’s what you want. More play, more adventure, more stillness, more peace, more community, more time with your family, more sleep, more beauty, more dancing, more meditation, more bliss. To choose more travel, more balance, more variety, more pleasure, more strength.
It’s also about the freedom to choose less, if that’s what you want. To go braless, make-up-less, boyfriend-less, childless, jobless, partner-less, parent-less, big house-less, diet-less. To choose less stress, less shame, less immobility, less weakness, less pain, less convention, less whatever-the-hell-else-someone-thinks-you-should-be.
It’s about saying that your LESS doesn’t define you. Your MORE doesn’t define you.
It’s about tapping into the innate wildness in your body to unleash the innate wilderness in your soul.
It’s about coming more alive.
This is Body Restoration for the Nature Hungry
Nature as in natural.
Nature as in fundamental.
Nature as in essential.
Nature as in innate.
Nature as in wild.
Restore Your Wild
is rooted in the
biomechanical
principles
of optimal alignment
If you don’t know your alignment, you don’t know your boundaries. If you don’t know your boundaries, you can’t move safely into new environments in wild ways.
But optimal alignment isn’t about “the right position.”
Optimal alignment is about dynamic movement. It's about flow. It’s about becoming more you.
Restore Your Wild
is also rooted
in the understanding
that you are not
separate from nature
Nature is wild. You are wild.
Reconnecting you with natural movements and the natural world restores your body. It creates optimal alignment so that you have the flow of blood, lymph and electricity you need for optimal health. It gets you stronger and ready for new physical adventures. It brings life to your day-to-day tasks, it give you the ability to go deeper into the work you love.
This reconnection does more. It restores your soul. It brings you alive in ways you’ve forgotten existed. It shifts the way you see yourself and the world. It brings you joy and peace and connection with the cosmos.
It's not about adding another thing to the to-do list
It's About
Freeing You Up
This is wild as you define it.
This is about owning your inner brilliance.
This is about moving the way YOU want to move, no matter who's watching.
This is about knowing your boundaries so that you can really listen to your body.
This is about letting go of the shoulds and the can'ts and the what ifs.
This is about compassion and intuition and showing yourself love.
This is about finding new ways to move and new ways to live, even when no new way seems possible.
This is about getting secure in your body's abilities.
This is about learning to give yourself what you need AND what you want. And maybe dissolving the separation between those things.
This is about saying no to self-judgment and saying no to paralysis by over-analysis.
This is about saying yes to adventure and expansion and the wild landscape of the heart.
This is about letting go of dysfunction and taking your place in your abilities.
This is about unleashing the goodness that you are into the world that you love.
Are You Ready?
Just being in Jennifer's presence and hearing her speak about natural movement, I'm in awe of her knowledge and ability to get me to see regular movement in a completely new way. I go off the beaten track almost daily now, I run slog the sand with my toddler with a new purpose, I find trees to climb and do it with the intent of waking up dormant parts of my body... Just knowing the biomechanics makes me want to do it, but the spiritual connectedness is one of the best effects.
Jana Kingsford
Jen's work has been a huge "game changer" for me. She has created a safe, non-judgmental, encouraging space - a space that gently invites her students to explore not only nutritiously moving our bodies but to explore our hearts at the same time and to learn to be integrated head to heart to toe, insides and outsides. She supports us while we struggle with how to do a stretch with wrists that resist. She listens with her whole being and takes time to sit a moment with the needs we present before suggesting what she thinks may help us most. She gently probes deeper to help us discover the pieces that might be hiding that create the challenges we face.
She and fellow class members have encouraged me to explore letting go of perfectionistic tendencies and to gather myself up and out of a distracted, disjointed, analytical, paralyzed heap to enter a world of freedom where I feel safe to explore not only movement but who I am and who I want to become. I've listened to a lot of messages and read a lot of blogs. I've read piles of books. I've hired help of varying types over the years. But never have I found so much value in one person who has been given the ability to create a place of safety at the same time as gently challenging me to grow and who also brings great knowledge and skills to the same table at which she lays her own heart - offering all she is in order to help us.
She's helped me to wrestle my own demands of myself to the ground and transform those demands into dreams. She's given me hope and focus and gentleness and love along with enthusiasm and cheerfulness and joy. So, if you have been following her work but have resisted signing up for her courses for whatever reasons - take time to reconsider what she offers - you may find she is a perfect fit for you too.Sharon Pilling
The world needs your wild
Restoring your wild isn't a selfish act. Do it for yourself, sure. But if that idea leaves you in a heap of a mess of guilt, then allow yourself to do it for someone else.
Do it for your kids who need a real example.
Do it for your partner who needs wildness, too.
Do it for the child in you, who misses the sensation of earth on bare feet.
Do it for your friends who are feeling small and scared.
Heck, do it for me.
I've been intentionally restoring my wild for over a decade. I wouldn't have called it that when I first started. I would have said I was sorting through things. Healing the past. Figuring out what was wrong with me. Trying to fix the parts of me that were broken.
And for a time that's what it looked like. It looked like fixing. It looked like fixing a body broken by a traumatic cesarean section. It looked like fixing a body broken by a sedentary culture. It looked like fixing a heart broken in childhood by sexual trauma and a stressful family life. It looked like fixing a mind limited by erroneous beliefs about what is possible.
At some point, the tide started to shift. Fixing is still part of the paradigm, but it's a piece of something bigger. It folds into the experience of expanding. Of growing. Of accepting. Of listening to the wild call inside about what I want and need and moving into that.
My own wild restoration has included various forms of somatic psychotherapy, movement education, hands-on bodywork, trauma-sensitive yoga, breath work and a lot of reading and exploring and waiting and crying and dancing and meditating. It's definitely been rooted in a whole lot of time outside.
It also led me to advanced training with Nutritious Movement, as well as training in Restorative Breathing. I bring into that 15 years worth of life coaching.
In essence, I've given my all to restoring my own wild and in supporting others to do the same. It's been the most profound journey.
It's About Moving Your Body
Moving Your Mind
Moving Your Heart
5 Monthly Masterclasses
You know the basics. Now let's take your movement to a new level.
Restore Your Rest
Restore Your Crawl
Restore Your Walk
Restore Your Hang
Restore Your Squat
10 Wild Workshops
Fine tune your movement, open your heart and explore essential elements of natural movement.
Tracking & Taming
Birthing & Burying
Hunting & Gathering
Getting Dirty & Getting Wet
Building a Tribe & Building a Breath
20 Resilient Resets
Challenge your assumptions, move deeply into yourself and be inspired toward the life you love.
PLUS! Monthly overviews, weekly planning support and extra downloadable movement classes.
The program costs $225 per month
That includes all 5 Movement Masterclass, all 10 Wild Workshops, all 20 Resilient Resets PLUS so very much more!