In 2011, Jennifer Prugh founded Breathe Together Yoga, our Bay Area yoga studio, tea house and wellness center, a welcoming community for beginners and experienced practitioners. Breathe Together recently made the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame for consecutive years as best yoga studio through the San Jose Mercury News.
Jennifer is an author, artist, educator and teacher whose work is dedicated to practicing presence and cultivating joy. She’s the author of two books: River of Offerings – Twelve Journeys Following the Path of the Ganges River, and Moving Into Meditation: 27 Meditations for Daily Life.
Certified as both a Yoga Therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapy and an E-RYT 500, in 2008 she founded the JOY of Yoga School of Integrative Learning for those who want to deepen their practice and train to become yoga teachers through 200 hours of training. She created a 300-hour yoga training program in 2011 and a 100-hour Meditation and Awareness Program, in 2020.
Introduced to yoga as a child in 1969, Jennifer has had a steady practice since 1989. She has trained within the Iyengar, Ashtanga, Baptiste, Bhakti Vinyasa, Vinyasa Krama, Vajrayana, and Prajna Yoga lineages.
She created the Tapas series (meaning steady practice), a seasonal approach to caring for the body through conscious movement and breath, and teaches yoga as a creative form of moving meditation, both in person at her studio, online through live zoom classes, via her YouTube channel as well as Yoga Anytime.
Jennifer has traveled to nearly 50 countries, leading international retreats and trainings, with a passion for bringing together people, practices, and places around the world. There is wisdom everywhere and we all benefit when we learn from one another.
The three main areas where she dedicates her fundraising efforts are to clean accessible water, education, and reforestation. For over twenty years she has supported Tibetan refugees and their children, and currently serves as President on the board of the Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation.
Formally trained as an artist, with a B.A. and teaching certification in Fine Arts (sculpture specialization) and an M.A. in Art and Consciousness Studies, Jennifer is a photographer, collage artist and painter whose work has been shown nationally and published in Yoga Journal and Psychology Today magazine. For eight years she taught storytelling, storyboarding, mythology, and creativity as an Associate Professor at Cogswell College.
Jennifer lives with her husband Will, and their Golden Retriever, River, while their son is entering his final year at UCSD. She shares her life and insights on Instagram (@jennprugh).
