Jennifer Reis

Jennifer Reis is a yoga and yoga nidra teacher and the creator of two methods: Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra and Five Element Yoga®. She has led classes, workshops, retreats and trainings for about three decades, and she says she has taught and trained thousands of students in that time.

Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that moves through body sensing, breath awareness and guided imagery. It works through the koshas, the layers of being described in the Upanishads of India. Five Element Yoga® draws on yoga, Ayurveda, yoga therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, bodywork and creative expression. It aims to balance the inner elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether through postures, breathing, mudras, self-massage, meridian work and deep relaxation.

Jennifer is a faculty member at Kripalu Center, which she calls her home for over 25 years. She is a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist, an E-RYT 500 experienced yoga teacher, a licensed massage therapist, and a Shiatsu and Ayurvedic therapist. She is also a Yoga Alliance continuing education provider. She leads teacher trainings in Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra and Five Element Yoga®, as well as in-person retreats at Kripalu. Her Insight Timer profile notes that her CDs were the best-selling at Kripalu Center for fourteen years, and that her Radiant Being Newsletter has over 13,000 subscribers.

Her offerings are for all levels, beginners included, and range from gentle to moderate in intensity. Participants are encouraged to listen to their bodies, use props and rest when they need to. Students describe her guidance as graceful and her practices as taking them out of the head and into the body. She runs her work with her husband and partner Michael.