Jolene’s Journey

2025
- Master’s in Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Advanced Training in Mind, Body, Medicine
- 2025 Reiki 1 &2 Attunement. Sacred Alley, Missoula MT
2021
- Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach
- BFY hosts class 3 yoga teacher training, Goreville, IL
2019
- 2019 200hr Thai Yoga Bodywork & Healing Studies with Paul Fowler, Chicago
- Sound Healing Apprentice Immersion-Kennedy Oneself
- BFY hosts Class 2 yoga teacher training, Effingham, IL
2018
- BFY becomes a Registered Yoga School and hosts Class 1, Sullivan, IL
- Thailand studies: Thai Yoga Body work – Sunshine Massage School
2017
- Reiki 1 & 2 Training, Effingham, IL
- India – Explored Panchakarma/Ayurvedic Treatments
- Y12SR The Yoga of 12 Step Recovery Leadership Training
- Reflexology certification – St Louis Healing Arts
2014-2019
- Building yoga brand, teacher training, and yoga retreats.
2014
- RYT 300 Kindness Yoga with Senior faculty in Denver, CO
  - Comprehensive Yoga Nidra with Jeremy Wolf
  - Amnaya Therapeutics and Rehab with Buffy Barefoot
  - Krama-Yoga class sequencing with Patrick Montgomery
  - Pranayama Intensive with Darren Main
  - Arts of Asana with Patrick Montgomery
  - The Sukha and Sthira of Practice with Joan Hyman
  - Effortless Mediation with Peter Russell
2013
- Level 1 certified Mindful Yoga Therapy teacher through the Veterans Yoga Project.
2012
- RYT 200 OM TIME (Gina Caputo, Shannon Paige, and Nancy Kate Rau) Boulder, CO.
2008
- Bachelors Degree In Forestry & Outdoor Recreation SIU-Carbondale, IL with traveling adventures to work with endangered Spotted Owls, forestry timber sales, wildfire mitigation, and so much more in Oregon, Colorado, and California.
2003-2005
- Military deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.