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People can tell their stories for years and years and years and nothing changes. Body mind work really begins to get below the story, goes into the deep emotions, the deep places that want to be touched, want to be supported, want to be transformed. We live in a culture that does not work with depth. Depth is there and it’s going to come through. If we have no tools to deal with it, then we don’t move. We don’t evolve. We don’t heal. |
Jennifer O’Hara has been a practitioner and teacher in the healing arts for twenty-two years. In the course of her professional development, she has studied and trained extensively in the disciplines of Japanese Acupressure and Sōtai, Internal Family Systems and Hakomi for Bodyworkers, Chinese Medicine, Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure®, Qigong, Meridian Touch™, and Taoist and Buddhist meditation. She is a certified practitioner with American Organization of Body Therapists of Asia (AOBTA-CP).
With an all-embracing approach to the interconnectedness of the bodymind state, Jennifer is uniquely skilled at somatic release and transformative energy (Qi/Ki) work. In her body-mind approach, Jennifer has been influenced by somatic and embodiment practices that include. She subscribes to the idea that interdependence happens and that our internal system works energetically as an ecological whole.
Growing up amid total family dysfunction and surviving her own childhood traumas, Jennifer has an exceptional appreciation of the premise that whatever impacts us psychologically is also experienced by the body. Having gone through her own comprehensive internal journey with a deep exploration and practice of the diverse modalities she employs today, her applied insight has led her to recognize that you can not heal for someone else what you have not healed for yourself.
Jennifer believes that the more we are in our bodies, the more we actually become who we are. She credits her own sense of balance, thriving, and joy to her daily self-practice of the very same modalities she exercises with her clients. Sharing the wisdom, compassion, and acceptance that ultimately arises from her practice is not only Jennifer’s profession, but also her passion.
Jennifer’s practice is effective as a stand-alone modality, but it can complement traditional psychotherapy or allopathic medicine. She has a special interest in working with trauma survivors and chronic conditions. These types of bodymind imbalances reside in deep places and it is these deep places that captivate Jennifer the most, enable her to go underneath the story, and make a healing connection.
Jennifer gets inspiration from the wisdom and compassion that she sees in everybody … their tender hearts, the determination, and the longing of people seeking their own authenticity.
Jennifer’s Energy (Qi/Ki) practice is largely informed by her scholarship with Eva Wong, Taoist and Qigong lineage holder and teacher. Jennifer has studied with Jin Shin Do® creator, Iona Marsaa Teeguarden Justin Pomery (L. Ac.). She has also taken classes with Giovanni Maciocia, and Japanese acupuncture teacher, Stephen Brown. She has studied Susan Aposhyan's Body-MInd Psychotherapy and Julie Henderson's Zapchen somatic exercises. With long-standing ties to the Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago, she is also an introductory meditation teacher for the Shambhala Community. In addition, Jennifer has been trained in Internal Family Systems and Hakomi Method for Bodyworkers
Jennifer has had professional affiliations with The Chicago Women’s Health Center, and The University of Chicago at Illinois. Additionally, she has had professional affiliations with The Heartwood Center in Evanston, The Howard Brown Health Center, The Banyan Tree Program for Asian Human Services, Chicago Health Outreach, and Illinois Masonic Hospital.
With an all-embracing approach to the interconnectedness of the bodymind state, Jennifer is uniquely skilled at somatic release and transformative energy (Qi/Ki) work. In her body-mind approach, Jennifer has been influenced by somatic and embodiment practices that include. She subscribes to the idea that interdependence happens and that our internal system works energetically as an ecological whole.
Growing up amid total family dysfunction and surviving her own childhood traumas, Jennifer has an exceptional appreciation of the premise that whatever impacts us psychologically is also experienced by the body. Having gone through her own comprehensive internal journey with a deep exploration and practice of the diverse modalities she employs today, her applied insight has led her to recognize that you can not heal for someone else what you have not healed for yourself.
Jennifer believes that the more we are in our bodies, the more we actually become who we are. She credits her own sense of balance, thriving, and joy to her daily self-practice of the very same modalities she exercises with her clients. Sharing the wisdom, compassion, and acceptance that ultimately arises from her practice is not only Jennifer’s profession, but also her passion.
Jennifer’s practice is effective as a stand-alone modality, but it can complement traditional psychotherapy or allopathic medicine. She has a special interest in working with trauma survivors and chronic conditions. These types of bodymind imbalances reside in deep places and it is these deep places that captivate Jennifer the most, enable her to go underneath the story, and make a healing connection.
Jennifer gets inspiration from the wisdom and compassion that she sees in everybody … their tender hearts, the determination, and the longing of people seeking their own authenticity.
Jennifer’s Energy (Qi/Ki) practice is largely informed by her scholarship with Eva Wong, Taoist and Qigong lineage holder and teacher. Jennifer has studied with Jin Shin Do® creator, Iona Marsaa Teeguarden Justin Pomery (L. Ac.). She has also taken classes with Giovanni Maciocia, and Japanese acupuncture teacher, Stephen Brown. She has studied Susan Aposhyan's Body-MInd Psychotherapy and Julie Henderson's Zapchen somatic exercises. With long-standing ties to the Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago, she is also an introductory meditation teacher for the Shambhala Community. In addition, Jennifer has been trained in Internal Family Systems and Hakomi Method for Bodyworkers
Jennifer has had professional affiliations with The Chicago Women’s Health Center, and The University of Chicago at Illinois. Additionally, she has had professional affiliations with The Heartwood Center in Evanston, The Howard Brown Health Center, The Banyan Tree Program for Asian Human Services, Chicago Health Outreach, and Illinois Masonic Hospital.
I’ve always known I have good hands…from the first time I put my hands on somebody, it was like a thunderbolt…instantaneous. I’d never had anything like that. It was really powerful. This is my path, obviously.
-J. O.