Ep 21 | Aliveness in Dying Times with Jennifer Patterson

Today's episode is a conversation with the breathworker and herbalist Jennifer Patterson.

I’m a huge fan of Jennye’s work and it was a joy to get to chat with her. We covered all sorts of ground and you’ll hear us get into the wavy space between medicine and poison, how we can be in our bodies when they’re places of pain or challenge, being in relationship with the land even as city dwellers, and how she’s practicing turning towards aliveness in what she calls ‘dying times’.

ABOUT JENNIFER

Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network.

She has facilitated workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is also a teacher in training programs with The Breathe Network and Breath Liberation Society.

She is the author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto) and editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016). A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction.

Find more of her work:

corpusritual.com
@corpusritual

WORK WITH ME

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In Practice, love letters and monthly live practices

LINKS & CREDITS

Drop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.com

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This episode is edited by the radiant Joeli Kelly, with eternal thanks and praises.

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