Jess Frey
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Lead Kripalu Faculty
Jess Frey, a 1000-hour Kripalu Yoga educator, life coach, and artist has been connected to Kripalu for more than a decade, serving in a variety of positions, including lead faculty for both R&R and the Kripalu Schools. Currently Jess facilitates yoga, ayurveda, and meditation retreats as well as designs and develops curriculum content for Kripalu's experiential programs and workshops. With an enthusiasm for personal and professional development, she also provides mentorship to the orgnanization's teaching staff. Jess is devoted to the process of compassionate inquiry, self-discovery, and the art of living yoga in everyday life. She stewards and facilitates connectivity, curiosity, and co-creates brave spaces for all beings. She believes community offers a pathway to learning, healing, and individual and collective transformation. Together is how WE find our way. Her passion and expertise lie in post-traumatic growth, addition recovery, embodied presence, creativity, and exploring ways to live the truth of one's self. With more than 20 years of personal practice, professional development, and leadership, Jess is known for her authenticity, heart, motivation, and depth.
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The Power of WE
Hear wisdom from one of Kripalu's Lead Faculty, Jess Frey, about the power of our community, or sangha, in our practice and retreat.
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Grief is The Medicine: Giving Space for Our Grievances
“Grief is the way love honors what it misses.”—Martín Prechtel
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A Winter Cocoon of Connection: The Benefits of a Silent Retreat
What might it be like to slow down and listen your way through life?
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What Are You Watering?
A focused intention is identifying a direction toward cultivating a more awakened heart and mind, says Kripalu Schools and R&R faculty member Jess Frey.
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Slow Down: Restoring Pathways to Connection
As we slow down, we deactivate the stress response and increase present-moment awareness.
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3 Daily Practices for Flowing with Life
Jess Frey offers practices for shifting from a state of reaction and stress into a greater, more loving expression of self.
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Chilling Out on the Mat: Tips for Your Summer Yoga Practice
Explore stepping onto the mat this summer with more ease and serenity, slowing the pace of your flow to create a refreshing and revitalizing practice.
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I Don’t Know, and That’s Okay: Six Practices for Cultivating Beginner’s Mind
Steering through the waters of uncertainty requires intention, commitment, dedication, and great courage. The practices of meditation and mindfulness can be a reliable compass.
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Heart Wisdom: Tuning into the Vibrations of Your Heart
Your heart has a mysterious way of knowing. Know what, you may ask? Everything.
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Your Life Is Your Practice
Kripalu Yoga teacher Jess Frey invites you to take a moment to pause and ask yourself, What am I practicing in this moment? What do I want to be practicing? What matters to me most right now?
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3 Powerful Benefits of a Silent Retreat
Lead Kripalu faculty Edi Pasalis and Jess Frey speak to why silence is a vehicle for reconnection in three powerful ways.
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Holiday Rituals from Our Faculty
We asked a few of our Kripalu Schools of Yoga and Ayurveda faculty to share their favorite rituals for the season of celebration.
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The Benefits of Being Quiet in Nature
When we’re able to drop into nature’s silence, we can hear and know ourselves more clearly.
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Yoga Outside the Comfort Zone: Confronting Your Edge with Courage
We asked a few Kripalu faculty members which yoga poses test their edge and how they cultivate equanimity in the face of discomfort, without pushing themselves too far.
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Finding Your True Self at Summer Camp
Adulting can be intense. Summer camp for grownups provides a pause to remember what really matters and to get back to who we really are—or who we want to be.
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Good Vibrations: Live Harp Music as a Doorway to Healing and Meditation
The rapture of music and its complex inherent characteristics can guide us into the gaps between thoughts, the silence within the sounds, and the calm within the chaos.
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The Six Stages of Change: Moving Mindfully Through Difficult Transitions
Change isn’t linear. We go back and forth. Sometimes we move through the cycle in five minutes; other times, it takes five years.
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Why I Love Being in Nature
We are asked our faculty about their favorite ways to get outside, and the most powerful benefits they experience in nature.
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What You’ll Get Out of a Silent Retreat, and How to Take It Home
Silence leaves us renewed, more awake to who we are and what we most need.
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Great Summer Reads from Kripalu Schools Faculty and Staff
Need a great beach read? Here’s what our Schools faculty and staff are kicking back with this summer!
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The Art and Science of Forest Bathing
Research shows that time outdoors is a critical component of overall health, benefiting us physically, mentally, and emotionally, and reconnecting us to our sense of self.
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