Jennifer Pastiloff

Bestselling Author | Poet | Artist | Yoga Instructor |
​Founder, The Manifest-Station


Jen has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News and more for her unique style of teaching. She has taught thousands of women in sold-out workshops all over the world. Her talks are centered around the touchstone stories of her workshops. How years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
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Jen Pastiloff  travels the world with her unique workshop, On Being Human, a hybrid of yoga-related movement, writing, sharing aloud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party.  She leads annual retreats to Italy and France and is an annual speaker at Canyon Ranch and Miraval Resorts. She has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, and CBS News. She is the founder of the online magazine The Manifest-Station and leads Writing and The Body workshops with author Lidia Yuknavitch.
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​Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she finally left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said yes to her first workshop, it was a choice that changed her life. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. Since then, she has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told “I got you.”   ​

Speech Topics

Get out of your own way: Clearing the path to success
Not everything has to be so damn hard! From ignoring the imaginary Time God (it's not too late for anything), to giving yourself a medal for your accomplishments, to realizing you're human, Jen explains how to stop sabotaging your success. ​Start saying yes, despite fears of inexperience and set yourself up to realize your potential.
proof of life: you are your own proof
Drawing on her own transformation from waitress to yoga instructor to, bestselling author, Jen inspires a new way to visualize your life. Listen as she illustrates why you shouldn't wait for anyone to give you a medal, you are entitled to give yourself a medal! You are your own proof and you are the one to recognize your accomplishments. You get to have this life and you have earned every one of those medals! 
on being human: bringing human to offices everywhere
Learn how being human creates a more productive environment and the significance of allowing humanity into the workplace. Hear how Jen's deafness has taught her how to listen hard and how being heard leads to increased satisfaction and productivity.  Jen illustrates the benefit of recognizing potential in other people, giving opportunities, and the power of paying it forward. 
ease is the new hustle: how slowing down increases productivity and sucsess
In the hectic world we live in, it often pays to jump off the merry-go-round. Jen illustrates the importance of taking time to think, evaluate, and explore. She points to her own experiences in slowing down enough to discover her own strengths, passions, and value. She maintains that if you are always running at top speed, you miss important details, new advantageous paths, information, and interests that can lead to greater success.
“Jen Pastiloff is a rejuvenating supernova! A life force of primal extravagant delight! Frank and Funny, she'll boss herself around and change the rest of us in the meantime. I'd want to listen to anything she has to say”
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— Naomi Shihab Nye
​Pushcart Prizewinning Poet

Previous Engagements​​

  • Shape Magazine
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Canyon Ranch
  • Miraval Resort
  • Writers Rising Retreat
  • Lumi Power Yoga, London
  • She Recovers: Keynote Speaker
  • Every Mother Counts with Christy Turlington Burns
  • On Being Human Workshops: Peak Power Yoga and Wellness, Detroit Yoga and Cycle Lab, Commune Yoga, Seattle 


​Books

On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real and Listening Hard
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. 
 
Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning.

“On Being Human is beautiful and tender, profound and absorbing. I never wanted to put it down. This is a book friends will tell friends they have to read for years to come. It’s an important, enthralling debut.”--Cheryl Strayed New York Times bestselling author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough and Torch, A Novel.


​Related Links

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
YOGA JOURNAL
On Being Badass - with Elizebeth Glaser and Jen Pastiloff
​THE HELM
How Jennifer Pastiloff Went From Being a Career Waitress to Building a Business Based on Being Herself