Jennifer Schelter is a writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work moves across memoir, poetry, performance, and visual art to explore language, listening, and the interior textures of memory and mindfulness. Her practice is rooted in what she calls “tiny things” — the overlooked but crucial details of belonging to yourself and the beauty of each day: the tiny sacred moments that quietly shape who we are and how we hold our stories.

A noted yoga, meditation, and writing teacher in the Philadelphia area, Jennifer brings her creative and contemplative practice directly into her teaching. She facilitates yoga, mindfulness and memoir programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Morris Arboretum, and Maine Media Workshops & College. She is passionate about offering guiding principles for students toward seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling life giving details. Her teachings are about the art of noticing and articulating what matters most.

She has also written and produced four one-woman shows, including Love Lessons from Abu Ghraib, produced by Amnesty International and Interact Theater, and shared in a Tony Award at the Denver Center Theater Company in 1998. Her watercolor paintings have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, and beyond. She founded Philadelphia’s largest civic yoga fundraiser and the Radiant Retreat, an annual gathering in Mexico centered on nature, creativity, and personal transformation. She lives in the suburbs, tending her garden, two cats, and home.

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I love the art of observation, loss, and beauty.

I am grateful to be part of a community of artists, writers, and creatives in Philadelphia, Cape Cod, Maine and beyond.

Books that are stacked beside my couch:

Asian art, Buddhism, memoirs, poetry, meditation, spirituality, craft books on writing, the creative process, visual art, watercolor sketchbooks, cats, birds, and the life of flowers.