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 and Sounds True One, 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. Jennifer is the creator and host of BreathWork, a 4 month multi-teacher immersive with Sounds True. She is also a teacher in training programs with Sounds True One, The Breathe Network, Breath Liberation Society, and Breathwork for Recovery’s breathwork clinician program. She is the author of LOVE WHAT SURVIVES Substack and The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto, 2020). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (Magnus Books/ Riverdale, 2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. She was also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. 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.

Upcoming class: (Dis)Embodiment: Finding the Body through Breath + Words