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About: Jennifer Pastiloff

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"Thank you Jennifer, for shining your light on mine." ~ Christy Turlington. / Jennifer Pastiloff, as featured on Good Morning America, is a lover of life, laughter, poetry, yoga, Modern Family (and a really good glass of wine.) She is the creator of Manifestation Yoga®, which is all about causing serious breakthroughs in your life without being too serious. Her rule of “If you fall you must laugh ” is strictly enforced in her yoga classes. / Jennifer teaches this inspirational style of yoga all over but her home base is in Los Angeles. She travels the world teaching workshops and leading retreats. When Jen's nephew Blaise was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Prader Wille Syndrome (PWS), it prompted her to start GAME Yoga. Gifts And Miracles Everyday: Free Yoga for Kids w/ Special Needs. / Jen is in the process of writing a book about how to manifest your life, one laugh at a time. She is partially deaf and wears hearing aids. / Jennifer spent 13 years working in the same restaurant and believes that everyone should have a job in the service industry at least once in their life. (It’s good for the soul, she says.) / Learn more about her at jenniferpastiloff.com. Her blog is Manifestation Yoga. Follow her on Facebook and on Twitter.
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A Dying Baby Teaches Me about Living.

by on May 27, 2012

Here I am in Santa Fe, sitting on a love seat, and next to me, a sweet baby is propped up on pillows, as I write, drool sliding down his chin, eyelids heavy and soft, purring like a cat every so often.

A sweet dying baby.

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Meet The OMies.

by on Apr 19, 2012

I am Jennifer Pastiloff and this series is designed to introduce the world to someone I find incredible. Someone who is manifesting their dreams on a daily basis. Today’s guest is Rick Rondeau, co-founder of one of my favorite companies ever: The OMies. I will admit that I am obsessed and own 6 OMies t-shirts.  11% of all revenue generated [...]

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Saying Goodbye.

by on Mar 20, 2012

I realize that my father, and my beloved soul brother Steve, for the brief time they were both in my life, taught me how to be human. They taught me: what it means to connect to someone. To reach over and touch someone’s forearm, to look into their eyes and laugh so hard that I think my insides my fall out of me if I don’t grip my stomach and pray, to be made so alive by their presence that I wonder if I have made them up.
Grief unearthed is as inevitable as air.

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Love Yourself, Accept Yourself, Forgive Yourself.

by on Mar 19, 2012

One of my main rules as a yoga teacher is that if you fall, you must laugh and take down your neighbor, which cultivates a sense of humor, and hopefully a little joy. You need at least a little joy daily. Sprinkle it on your cereal, slip it in your downward facing dog, add it to your pinot noir.

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What I Learned From My Friend Steve Bridges. 1963-2012

by on Mar 9, 2012

Although I had thought a lot about this all throughout the week, it wasn’t until Annie asked me, and I had to say it aloud, that I got very clear on the things I had learned from him.

Not from his death but from his life.

He taught me to love my life.

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Sanctuary

by on Apr 18, 2011

The following blog entry is not written by me, but rather by a very dear friend named Emily Rapp. I feel compelled to share. I really have no choice but to share it with the world. Her words, heartbreaking and gorgeous, shed light on something unspeakable. Having had serious loss in my own life, I [...]

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The Archeology of Love

by on Mar 17, 2011

Part 3 in the Series ” The Evolution of  a Relationship“. As it says in the poem below, “I will invent what I have to (like any good archeologist)”. I am fascinated by our ability to fall in love, to fall out of love, to get over what seems un-get-overable at the time. I am in [...]

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Romance: A Fairy Tale.

by on Mar 14, 2011

Part 2 of The Evolution of A Relationship. Another one from when I was a waitress. There is no denying that sometimes what we feel is a curse…can be our greatest blessing. So much art came from those years at that café. So much poetry in the faces I saw, daily. In the dishes. In [...]

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The Evolution of a Relationship: two poems for people who may or may not like poems.

by on Mar 13, 2011

Ah, so I am coming back to my roots. Writing. When I was a kid, my parents (before my father died) used to introduce me as “the writer”. This embarrassed me for some reason. So much so, that I grew up and decided to be an actress? Well, I am back. The writer. Reviewing some [...]

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Let Go.

by on Feb 24, 2011

It’s got me wondering, this whole business of “letting go”. I’m hearing it everywhere: On the street someone whispers it into their cell phone, Girl, you have to let it go. He’s horrible to you. You deserve better. Move on. Let go! The yoga teacher insists upon it: Inhale, and with the next exhale, Let [...]

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What are you up against?

by on Nov 14, 2010

I can’t hear you. Says your yoga teacher. Well, if I stand really close to you and look at your lips, I can. Or if I bend down as you are in downdog and look at you upside down, maybe I can. Gary Lightbody, Lead singer of Snow Patrol fittingly said: ” Jennifer is an [...]

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The Anniversary: Celebrating life’s curveballs.

by on Sep 14, 2010

The Anniversary of finding out devastating news about your child. A lesson in turning life, even when it seems impossible, into a celebration. My sister celebrates the anniversary of finding out her son has special needs ( Prader-Willi Syndrome)

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Change. Yay Change!

by on Jun 25, 2010

Learning to embrace change instead of having it leave you in cold sweats. It does not have to equal sadness and chaos. Yay change!

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Father’s Day, and The Expiration of Grief.

by on Jun 21, 2010

Expressing grief doesn’t have a time stamp. As long as you have a heart and you feel a tug at that heart, you are permitted to express your grief. Even if it has been 25 years.

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Offer Good…and Good Comes Back to Us. ~Jennifer Pastiloff

by on Mar 10, 2010

California Bride Raises $2,300 at her wedding and donates 100% of would-be wedding expenses to relief for Haiti. My wedding was perfect. I still believe it may have been a dream if it weren’t for the photos. If you read the first article I wrote for elephantjournal.com, you’ll remember how I described myself as not being [...]

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