My own healing has been my best teacher.
Throughout two decades in the pilates and bodywork field, I had the extreme pleasure of studying with some of the wisest, most skilled people in their fields. That work and their guidance shaped my career and life in meaningful ways. I loved working with my clients in private practice, watching them heal and change their bodies.
And, I was always a little restless…
Always reaching for something a little more.
When my husband and I moved to Wyoming, I had a moment to pause and realize I was ready for a change. Soon after our move, a foot injury triggered a series of events that led me to confront physical limitations, depression, and deep-rooted grief over my mother’s death that I had pushed aside for decades.
Getting serious about my own healing steered me toward psychedelic medicine and brought everything I had learned, and thought I knew, into a whole new light.
Over the past five years, this personal work has healed deep wounds, opened me more fully to love and trust, and led me in new and inspiring directions. It has helped me expand into my ‘one wild and precious life’ and the gifts I have to offer.
It isn’t an overstatement to say that this work has completely changed my life. I couldn’t have willfully “made it happen” or done it on my own.
I’m so grateful to all of my teachers, from the people to the plants and even grief. I would be honored to walk with you on your own adventure of healing and self-discovery.
Jennifer Durning
Background and Training
Mindfulness | Psychedelic Therapy
- Tam Integration Psychedelic Integration Coach Training, completion fall 2024
- Michael King’s Meditation Teacher Training, certified 2022
- Michael King’s mentoring and coaching program, fall 2023
- Zach Leary’s course in Psychedelic Studies, winter 2022
- Nervous System Mastery Course with Johnny Miller (Curious Humans podcast)
- End of Life workshops through Zen Hospice Project (San Francisco, CA)
- Death Doula introductory course, Inelda
- Courses in Mindful Self Compassion with Kristen Neff and Chris Germer
- Self-motivated studies include IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapy, the work of Gabor Máte, trauma work, and self-paced psychedelic therapy courses
- Ongoing personal/professional apprenticeship with an experienced MAPS-certified practitioner and psychedelic integration therapist.
Pilates | Bodywork
- Private practice: pilates, rehabilitation and movement, massage and bodywork (Berkeley and Oakland, CA) – 2001-2021
- Pilates Certification: Ellie Herman (San Francisco, CA) and The Pilates Center (Boulder, CO)
- Massage Certifications: The McKinnon Institute for Massage Therapy (Oakland, CA) and The Acupressure Institute (Berkeley, CA)
- Anusara Yoga Certification
- Continuing education workshops and mentoring in rehabilitation and movement: Irene Dowd, Liz Roman, Cara Reeser, Wendy LeBlanc Arbuckle, Marty Morales, and others
- Anatomy and Cadaver studies: Gil Hedley
- Continued Iyengar Yoga studies (Oakland and Berkeley, CA
Somatics | Body Work
- The Feldenkrais Method, many teachers
- The Alexander Technique, many teachers
- Eric Franklin Method with Eric Franklin
- Aston Kinetics/Aston Patterning with Judith Aston
- Hannah Somatics with Susan Koenig
- Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
- Phillip Beach, embryonic movement patterns
- Physical therapy studies, special mentors
