The path of devotion is a series of practices that help us cultivate courage, connection + resilience during hard times.
We are taught to override our bodies, negate what feels true and ignore our need for solid ground, calm & real love. We’ve forgotten how to connect, how to rest, how to be together and how to breathe. Together we can unhook from the systems that are hurting all of us and re-map on the landscape of togetherness, connection, liberation and trust. We can do it now for the sake of our souls & our troubled world.
My name is Jen Lemen, and I’m happy to share this path with you.
maps for mindset change
I create maps to help us find our way through times of crises and transition with liberation + transformation as a guide.
nervous system support
I create gentle learning environments to nurture the return to body, earth + the 3Rs: rhythm, routine + rituals.
collective care for all
I create environments where people can practice being present to what is happening for ourselves + the collective.
we can find our courage and calm even in the most tumultuous times
TOGETHER WE’LL GET IN A RHYTHM AND FLOW THAT FEELS CALM & STEADY, so THAT little by little we can find our collective strength.
nature is a friend
I’ll nudge you to get outside with gentle prompts and reminders you are not a machine—you are a living breathing creature living on a planet that breathes with you.
body is a guide
I’ll encourage you to pause, embrace rest and listen deep for the rhythms, routines and rituals that support your intuition, your instincts and your deep down knowing.
Instagram classroom
Join the class and receive access to a private IG account. We’ll cover the basics together through stories, highlights, prompts + daily posts in a conversational and informal way that’s easy to follow.
the beauty of daily ritual
We’ll take ordinary things—baths, walks, sleeping & waking routines and weave them into a rhythm that we can help us find our common ground. We’ll remember we are human & that we need one another.
blessings morning + night
Practice the simplest forms of meditation as a way of blessing yourself and others. We’ll ground our waking and sleeping in compassion and resilience and in doing so, set the stage for greater empathy.
the path of devotion is ABOUT LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE.
we learn from feeling loved
When someone loves you, really loves you, so much is possible. When you feel accepted by someone, you can get the space you need to consider a difficult or necessary shift in thinking or consciousness. When you feel like someone has your back, you can take risks that you would never have considered before. When you believe that another person thinks you’re worth the time, energy and effort, you start to think you might be worth it, too.
I believe that love is a great teacher and that the experience of being loved can be formative and help fill in the places where we haven’t experienced the attention or care the youngest parts of us require. I believe that being loved helps us learn how to love and that with the smallest bit of restoration, we can powerfully love ourselves & other humans, despite our trauma, losses or shame.
we learn from BEING RECEPTIVE.
There’s the learning you do in school, and there’s the learning that happens in life. The classroom of life is the body where we experience all the sensations and emotions that accompany a new or unexpected moment in time. Those experiences are mapped not only on our memory but in our muscles and our nervous systems. Learning how to work with our experiences and validate informal ways of knowing is foundational if we are to develop the kind of wisdom that can contribute to the collective.
I believe that we can intentionally learn from the information gathered from our human experiences and develop practices which shape and hone our most emotionally intelligent ways of being. We can practice rituals, rhythms and routines that regulate us. We can learn how to be receptive when life invites us to rise.
we LEARN BY BREAKING PATTERNS.
Becoming more human means becoming aware of the ways we are unconsciously participating in systems and structures that diminish our dignity or make us complicit in the suffering of ourselves or others.
I believe we can create maps that chart the systems of oppression and that together we can figure out exactly where we’re getting pulled in and where we came into this world already contributing to injustice or strife. I believe that together we can cultivate the defiance and wild curiosity we need to break our shared patterns and to invite others to do the same.
I believe that a life of devotion calls us to work tirelessly for the cessation of all suffering and that when we learn together, we return to the collective integral pieces of our lost humanity.