About
Jenna Ward,
Feminine Embodiment Coach

Feminine embodiment for women and coaches who value sensitivity & sensation.

Who want to lead with their body, rather than their heads or to-do lists. Who want to magnetically draw in their desires. And dance with sensual aliveness in their day.

—— She/Her

About Jenna, Professional Bio

Jenna Ward is a leading Feminine Embodiment Coach & Embodiment Teacher living between Australia & Holland.

Jenna works with hundreds of coaches and women to deepen their feminine gifts, inhabit their bodies more fully & coach in embodied ways.

Jenna has worked with women across 5 continents, partnering with them to discover the endless depth, beauty & wisdom of their own bodies knowing.

In 2017 Jenna founded the School of Embodied Arts, an international training organization & community devoted to cultivating the skills of living and coaching in body-honoring, feminine ways.

About my body of work.

I’m a Feminine Embodiment Coach. I work with women, coaches & entrepreneurs.

I don’t have your answers & I’m not interested in fixing you. I am interested in partnering with you to discover the wisdom & perfect path forward that’s already inside you, ripe to be discovered & actualized.

For women we offer:

The Magnetism Map. A free mini-training to help you dial up your magnetism.
Primal Feminine Flow. Feminine embodiment movement practices to deepen your connection to your body.
Working The Embodied Way. A virtual workshop exploring body-honoring ways of getting things done.

For coaches & practitioners we offer:

Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification.
A 6-12 month professional training program.

The long story.

I came across embodiment totally by accident.

As my first career as a clinical hospital pharmacist (I hold a Bachelor & Graduate Diploma) was reaching its zenith, I realized I was deeply & utterly unhappy. I had a wealth of conventional success and privilege but felt kind of dead inside. My body starting speaking to me with symptoms of nausea & sickness (from the copious amounts of chocolate I was eating to smother my dissatisfaction). My to-do list was strangling me.

I felt that there surely had to be something MORE to life than this superficial living.

Perhaps a change of career would fix this lack of depth I felt? I started studying a modern form of energy medicine to heal myself & my clients (I hold a Cert IV & Diploma in Neuroenergetic Kinesiology). I had no idea what a chakra was (I still don’t remember all their names) & had never meditated a day in my life – but this esoteric & spiritual world surely held the ‘More’ I was looking for.

Fast forward 2 years. I had opened my in-person practice in Brisbane, Australia. My first week of clients was a fully booked schedule of weaving invisible magic with my clients. Success! Surely this would bring me a sense of deeper living I was craving?

Yet 12 months after my clinic opened I was back at square one. I had invested so much cash & energy, yet I felt shackled to my practice. I was exhausted & worse, I didn’t fully believe in what I was doing.

Clients would come in for me to ‘energetically diagnose’ their issue, then magic it away (which I did). It felt false. Some part of me didn’t sit well with this way of “healing”.

My own body (bless her!) started speaking to me (again) – but the model of “healing” I was working with simply wasn’t up to the job.

My body was guiding me deeper.

Asking me to listen more closely. To not magic away her pain. But rather to enter it fully.

To inhabit and understand her at the deepest level. The level beyond the mind, beyond thoughts.

To become masterful in her deepest currents – her inner world of sensation, feeling & emotions.

It was then that I finally understood...

My entire life had been headfirst. Making decisions from facts rather than feels. Valuing more what I thought than what I sensed. Totally dis-embodied. Living from the neck up.

My body, like many women’s bodies, was numb.

Sure I felt emotions & feelings, but I was living in a tiny percentage of my bandwidth.

It showed…

I lived in my head & ignored the needs of my body
I didn’t want to feel uncomfortable emotions, so I ate them away & numbed them out
I had to ‘fix’ my physical imperfections (like acne & my weight) rather than embracing the entirety of this physical temple
I often couldn’t tell you what my truth, or boundary, or opinion was, because it was smothered under all the things I needed to be for everyone to love me
I was looking for my purpose outside me, rather than living as my purpose
Sensuality was a performance, rather than a current I could effortlessly tap into
I had to work hard for success, rather than magnetize it in

My head has been calling the shots, but it had lead me down a (conventional) path (filled with privilege) that was deeply unsatisfying. But what other option did I have… No one had given me a manual for “how to lead with your body”. I was raised in a culture that didn’t give much weight to the feminine, fluid, feeling aspects.

I had no idea, no map, no guide.

So I simply sat (tip: I later discovered embodiment works better when you MOVE your body!) & kept dropping in.

Layers of tension & hidden shames revealed themselves. It wasn’t pretty. There was a lot of snot & tears.

Yet below my neck, under those layers of tension & shame was ME.

The fluid, flowing, feeling me.

This was the depth, the ‘More’, I had been searching for.

Depth is not theoretical. It is experiential.

Our bodies are the only temples we can HAVE that experience within. And my body was (finally) ONLINE. I was inhabiting her fully, I was (I am) the feminine, embodied.

(Note: It’s also essential to know this didn’t just magically happen overnight. Inhabiting yourself fully is an everyday practice. Embodiment is a skill. Albeit a skill that very few of us are taught, encouraged to learn, or see modeled in the world around us.)

From here, shit got real.

Weaving this work in with my client creating stellar results for them (& felt deeply sincere for me).

I began to work with more women, from more countries/backgrounds/identities. I took my business online & traveled with it.

I met my (now) husband. Opportunities were landing on my lap (I believe this was the inherent quality of magnetism at play) & my small practice grew into a company with an amazing team who all live (& love) feminine embodiment.

In addition to my personal explorations in feminine embodiment, I also sought out every embodiment-related training out there (there were/are not many!). I trained as a Non-Linear Movement Method Teacher, studied the impact of trauma on the body with Bessel VanDerKolk, dived into the teachings of Peter Levine, learned the foundations of Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menaken, explored the intersections of embodiment & feminized, and studied Embodied Social Justice.

At some point, my past clients began asking if I could teach them how to coach this way too.

Thus in 2017 the School of Embodied Arts & first Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification was born.

Embodiment is a skill that I practice every day.

When I let it slide, life becomes shallow, dry, full of to-do lists & stress that I don’t understand.

But when I show up to practice (through movement practices like this one) and dance with my depth as a woman, I am rewarded with living as that ‘More’ I was searching for.

If you too are on this journey let’s stay connected – join me for our bi-weekly School of Embodied Arts podcast, you can sign up here.

About the School of Embodied Arts

The School of Embodied Art’s team is a diverse group of women working from around the world to support students of our Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification. To find out more about our team members & their roles download our Program Curriculum.