Meet Jennelle
I’m Jennelle Dodd—a yoga therapist, intuitive healer, grief tender, and cultural change worker. My everyday is held within the rhythm of being a keeper of the home and a mother.
As a young adult, I feared emotions and found refuge in logic and independence. Through the wild ride of mental illness, fear, and motherhood I was pushed toward finding new ways of being and relating.
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First, I leaned into vigorous yoga, then slow and relational yoga therapy, then nature and ritual centered practices. Sometimes slowly, and sometimes in leaps and bounds my world expanded, and I felt more at home in myself, and able to attune to my needs.
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In retrospect, I am so grateful, for this unplanned path that has ultimately enriched my life. The way I see and relate with life now regularly feels like a warm breeze as I stand in a field full of blooming wild flowers. Rich, complex, supportive, and connected.
This shift was made possible through time, teachings, relationships, and mysterious remembering. (Learn more about my teachers and influences below.)
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The mess and challenge is still very much here, but I also now have access to support, practices, perspective, and trust.
Since 2012, I have been supporting others with reconnecting with their body’s innate wisdom, meeting difficulty, and dancing in the mystery of life.
I am one that feels pain for the paved over earth. I am a lover of stories and feel like I don't really know a place until I have swam its water. I am a lover of depths and am so grateful for the people and places that have share their depths with me.
The shoulders on which I stand
Below is a summary of the values I hold, and the people, trainings, and influences that have shaped the way I show up.
Yoga as Respect and
Coming Home to Self
Anne Esguerra and the lineage of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT) are the foundation of my training in presence, embodiment, and transformational healing.
Expansive gratitude to Anne, my mentor and friend; From you, I experienced for the first time in this lifetime support without conditions. I could dawn my shadow and you welcomed it. This was the re-mothering which my lineage dearly needed. My ancestors and descendants thank you.
Diversity is honoured and respected
I acknowledge my privilege as a white person and a descendant of settlers here in Saskatchewan. I acknowledge that history and harm on this land I call home. I work, live and love here on Treaty 6 Territory, homeland of the Métis Nation and traditional territories of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples.
I value, respect, and welcome the broad variety of expressions of gender and sexuality. I hold dear diversity and welcome humanity in our strength and struggle into my spaces. I believe in and welcome contradiction and respectful conversation within my community and my offerings.
Grief Tending in Community
I knew I had grieving to do, but I didn't know how to let the grief move, let the tears flow.
Fortunately, I eventually I found myself in conversation about my frozen grief. I was offered an unfamiliar concept, that was both a gift and a path. We aren't meant to grieve alone, grief is meant to be held, moved, and honoured in community. By participating in Grief Tending in Community, I found a place for my tears to fall and so much more.
I am so grateful for those that carry the work of Grief Tending in Community before me. That hold the thread of an ancestral remembrance of communal and ritual grieving. ​​
Womb, Ritual, and
Nature Connection
My connection to the womb and to nature has been a both source of resource and healing. Trusting my womb—both physical and energetic—began with birthing my daughter and continues to support me through cycles of life, death, and renewal.
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Through shamanic and yogic womb work, nature-based ritual, and embodied listening, I’ve come to know the womb as a compass of deep intuition and creative power.
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Ritual is part of my personal practice: building altars with stones, water, fire, and plants—giving form to the unseen through beauty, colour, and intention. Creating personal rituals is a way of remembering what was lost in my lineage: connection to nature, ancestors, ceremony, and spirit.
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This work holds space for cyclical wisdom, creativity, and the quiet reclaiming of what was once silenced.
Would you like to be part of the tapestry of my life?
Gratitude rises in me thinking of the influence and impact of relationships. Learning from clients, being part of community healing, just having a good conversation, and belly laughs.
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We can change each other in a good way...
