Chase the Light Wellness empowerS YOU to create Your own happiness and live an authentic, fulfilled, and BRIGHT life.

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Grounded in the belief that the way we do one thing is the way we do everything, I use both physical movement and personal inquiry as tools to help you see what's possible when drop what you know, change your expectations, and get out of your own way — what you uncover and achieve during the process might surprise you. 

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wellness coaching

Through coaching, you'll determine how you want wellness — physical health, your career, stress management, relationships — to feel in your life. We'll work together to bridge the gaps between where you are right now and where you want to go.

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workshops

I offer group workshops on creating balance, establishing sustainable wellness systems, and mindful leadership — working with others to promote growth also helps you connect empathetically and build your own supportive community

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yoga & fitness

One of the best ways to learn about yourself is to discover and challenge your physical edge. Roll out your mat, hop on a bike, or hang upside down in a hammock with me — we'll team up to work hard, sweat, and grow together.

get in touch

email: jenn@chasethelightwellness.com
phone: 814-753-1602

meet jenn bauer

I'm a wellness coach, instructor, and educator. I empower people to create their own happiness, and I live authentically in my own.

my philosophy

Through my work, I help others find their own path to wellness and fulfillment. It is my core belief that mindfulness and physical movement — yoga, pilates, cycling, walking, running, lifting weights, or even just breathing — are powerful tools to help us discover who we are and who we want to be out in the world.

My first love is yoga — it inspired me to start my journey of working with others, and it informs everything else that I do. I think of the mat as a research facility where we can observe ourselves, our habits, our impulses, the voices that shout "You've got this!" or the ones the creep in and whisper "Give up." I offer this experience by giving you the space to see what's happening in your mind and body as you challenge yourself — whether it's during a sweaty yoga class or in a powerful coaching session. Once you are comfortable recognizing emotions, feelings, and roadblocks in one area, you can begin to see how they show up in the rest of your life and do the work to move them out of the way.

The moon has always inspired me — it's loosely incorporated into my business theme, and I have a lunar cycle tattoo as a reminder that change is always an option and that nothing is permanent. The moon doesn't give off it's own light; in order for us to see it, something else has to shine. As a coach and instructor, that's my role — I encourage you to chase your own light and shine brightly so that others around you can be inspired by your glow. 

credentials

— Associate Certified Wellness Coach via Coach Training EDU
— Yoga Alliance 200 RYT via Satya Yoga and Wellness
— Air Flow Yoga via PYP Studio
— Pilates Mat 1 via PHI Pilates
— Pilates Reformer 1 via PHI Pilates
— Spinning®

let's get social

I keep a running log of my daily life, which mostly consists of food, my husband's garden, and #tbt pics of vacations past. 

People say “I love you” all the time — when they say “Take an umbrella, it’s raining;” or “Hurry back;” or even “Watch out, you’ll break your neck.” There are hundreds of ways of wording it — you just have to listen for it. - John Patrick, The Curious Savage ❤️ #happyvalentinesday #loveisallaround Going to start making #mezcalmondays a thing... and they’ll definitely require a side of sweet potato soyrizo nachos. 🥑🌮 (blood orange mezcal margarita compliments of my favorite hyper-local cocktailologist, @notthiscrudematter) After some snow days and frigid temps, EMBODIED YOGA at @serenitywellnesscentre is back tomorrow. Join me on the mat on Thursdays from 12-1 and learn to move and experience your own yoga from the inside out. 🧘🏼‍♀️#yoga #statecollegeyoga #embodiedyoga #vinyasayoga #yogateacher #serenitywellness Sometimes all it takes is a new shoe rack and a tiny fake plant to make you feel better about your entire life. (There is dirt on the floor because #MOtheRoomba can’t handle the tassels on that rug, and my aesthetic will not be dulled by a robot vacuum. But I’m too lazy to clean it myself.) #homesweethome There’s a big difference between confidence and bravery. Confidence says, “I’ve got this. I know the way. I will crush it.” Bravery says, “Holy shit, I’m scared. I don’t know what’s ahead. I’m not sure if I can do it. But I’m going to go for it and find out.” Bravery doesn’t push away the fear. It recognizes it, sits with it, looks it in the eye, and chooses to walk with it. It paddles out into that big ocean of uncertainty and trusts that even if it’s hard, even if she falls, it will be okay. It will be okay to feel failure, or success, or loss, or acceptance. Whatever is out there, it’ll be okay. ✨ I’ve always considered myself confident — I think confident thoughts and act in confident ways. But brave? Not so much. So, my 2019 intention is to think more brave thoughts, to hold hands with what’s scary and say hi to it, to witness it, and then to move my way through it. There’s a whole world of unknowns out there. That may scare me, but I’m also going to let it inspire me. How magical that I don’t know everything, that there are still places and people, feelings and experiences for me to explore with curiosity? Join me. Let’s paddle into the unknown together and discover what joy and surprises might live on the other side. 💪🏼 (Also yes, a good excuse to post some Jamaica heat during this polar vortex. Thinking warm and cozy thoughts, along with those brave ones. 🥶) “Better be... GRYFFINDOR!” (But really, it’s Ravenclaw.) Sorted at the wedding. #iftheshusfit Everybody high five this guy today — he’s 30! 🍾🎈Happy Birthday, husband! We did a lot of celebrating this year, but getting to celebrate you is my favorite. ❤️🎂 #30thbirthday #happybirthday Alright, I’ll play. Mostly because I saw that @abercrombie has brought back its zip-up hoodies, and I’m still mourning the loss of that one on the left to dorm laundry room theft in 2006. 😩 ••• Less bangs, same smile, a few more laugh lines. Age 30 me is happier, healthier, and so much more content. She’s easier on herself and finally knows what she wants. But I appreciate the blind confidence of age 18, the untamed potential, the drive to go, move, and be. College years were hard, and this photo captures the very beginning, before health problems and existential crises. But the girl on the right got through it. She thrived. She’s here, full of that same potential and a lot more purpose. She’s grateful. ❤️✨ #howharddidaginghityouchallenge #firstprofilepic #2006 (fun fact: @arose3 is just out of frame in both of these. PLP forever.) All I do now is take photos of places our roomba (MO) gets trapped, as if anyone would ever find it remotely as amusing as @notthiscrudematter and I do... is this what pets are like? #MOtheRoomba We are working through our JUDGEMENT HABIT in YTT again this month, and I couldn’t help laughing when I saw this gem @notthiscrudematter snapped of me on vacation. Caught in my natural habitat of basking in the sun, reading a book, and very clearly judging the shit out of something next to me... probably a bug. HAPPY JUDGMENT DETOX, friends. May your endeavors in neutral witnessing be easier than mine. 😉😬😳 #judgmentdetox #santosha #neutralwitness #yogaeverywhere #yogaoffthemat NEW CLASS!! ✨ Join me for a practice focusing on feeling poses from the inside out, and learn how to embody your yoga with mindfulness. 🧘🏼‍♀️FREE intro class this week! Following sessions will be $10. Thursdays from 12-1pm at @serenitywellnesscentre. ❤️ I’m back! 🦁 After a 19-month break (in which there was a lot of “non-break”), I’m returning to good ol’ PSU in a new capacity: to teach yoga this semester!🧘🏼‍♀️ I took this course as a student, and in some way, it led me here. I’m really excited for the opportunity to share my yoga experience in this format and plant some seeds in my 3 classes of students. Can’t escape the parking permits, though 😉! #firstdayofschool #newadventure #beingbrave #yoga1 new year, new(ish) schedule. so many chances and choices to move mindfully with me each week. join in! let’s sweat, strengthen, stretch, and connect together! 🚴🏼‍♀️🧘🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♂️❤️ #statecollegeyoga #statecollegefitness #yogateacher #poweryoga #pilatesreformer #corework #cycle #aerialyoga #aerialfitness I set a goal to read 45 books in 2018 (and then forgot about it until early December). 📕 I crossed into 2019 having finished 43, plus a coaching textbook and many pages of yoga training materials. I’m considering it a win. 🏆 ••• These were 4 of my favorites: The Paper Magician (a fun, whimsical start of a trilogy about a magician’s apprentice who can create magic via things made of paper); The Immortalists (read in less than 24 hours, follows four siblings on their journeys in understanding their own mortality); I’ll Be Gone In The Dark (a true crime telling of the GSK by the late Michelle McNamara, who, sadly, didn’t get to see him caught); and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (the darkhorse of my list, a book about deep friendship and tortured artistry). ••• I’ve committed to 40 books in 2019, vowing that 7 HP re-reads won’t be on it again 😉⚡️. ••• So, what should I read?! 📖 As we close out 2018, I offer you my words on, well, the words of the past year. Spoiler alert: it was full of them. (Link in profile to read them.) ••• Happy 2019, dear friends. Shine bright and take your light with you into all that is new and magical.✨🍾 ••• #happynewyear #2019 A 30th birthday, weddings, more football-game-shoulder-rides, new businesses, yoga, 3 great vacations, and one killer sunset from our front porch. Thanks for the mems, 2018. 👋🏼✌🏼❤️ #2018topnine #bestnine2018 #happynewyear Look! It’s our faces! Loving Jamaica, not missing the cold at all. 👍🏼🌴❤️ Forever chasing sunsets. West coasts only, please. 🌅 Pleasant. 🌴🌊 Good morning, from our treehouse in Jamaica! 🇯🇲 🌴🍾