Jennifer Schelter is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and mindfulness and yoga teacher whose work is rooted in the body, nature, and intimate storytelling. Working across memoir, performance, and watercolor, she teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Morris Arboretum, and Maine Media Workshops and College.

She has written and produced four one-woman shows — including Love Lessons from Abu Ghraib, produced by Amnesty International — and shared a Tony Award at the Denver Center Theater Company. Her watercolors have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In her teaching, Jennifer holds space for students to reflect, write and move from the body — using the senses, craft and story structure, she supports students shape authentic thinking, feeling, and personal narrative. Her work is therapeutic and cathartic.

She founded the curriculum for Philadelphia’s largest civic yoga fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and convenes the annual Radiant Retreat, a week of personal discovery, joy, and rejuvenation by the Pacific Ocean in Mexico. She is the recipient of the Living Beyond Breast Cancer Community Award for Taking It Off the Mat and a multiple Best of Philly honoree.

Jennifer recently completed her memoir, Some Beauty, sections of which have been presented by Live Radio Arts and published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes.

She lives outside Philadelphia with her beloved cats and garden.

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The books stacked on either side of my couch: Asian art, Buddhism, memoirs, poetry, meditation, spirituality, craft books on writing, the creative process, visual art, watercolor sketchbooks, cat, bird, and flower books.