THE HIGHERVIBE STORY

We are the nurses, students, office staff, parents, the engineers, the writers. All around you. With a secret.

We believe in the power of yoga to transform lives.

In my years of running a brick-and-mortar yoga studio, I learned yoga was everywhere. Ask the woman making your appointment at the doctor's office, and she probably practices yoga. Ask the man redirecting your call at the bank, he's probably tried it.

I wanted to democratize access to higher levels of yoga education for all, to make yoga trainings affordable, convenient, and impactful. So I made it free.
Because I know first hand the transformative power of this practice. And I've taught it to hundreds of students in person. Now you can be your own teacher.

Welcome to HigherVibe.

The Full Story

Hi friend! I'm Jess Palmer, a scientist-turned-yogi, founder of HigherVibe Virtual Trainings, and owner of The Yogic Body Studio Co. It feels like only yesterday when I was introduced to yoga while studying for my degree in Biology. For several years, I worked as a cancer researcher but my mind was always busy with dreams of becoming a yoga teacher. And... ultimately, the creation of this all came through crisis - after losing my mother-in-law to terminal cancer, I decided to fully dedicate myself to wellness through yoga.

Most days you can find me cleaning dog hair off my hardwood floors before laying out my yoga mat.

Mostly, I'm known for cuddling my mastiff well past the alarm, dozing off at the end of my yoga practice, and hanging fairy lights in every room of my house. I am crazy in love with apple fritters and am still searching for the perfect mac & cheese recipe.

It's all too often people tell me I sound older than I am (compliment? never sure...). But I'm so dedicated to bringing some old soul wisdom to this crazy world.

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Fritters and dog hair aside, life wasn't always mastiff cuddles and fairy lights. (Truth bombs ahead)

It wasn't long ago that I was a cancer researcher (true). And it wasn't long ago that my mother-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The kind of cancer whose Google search results make you sob uncontrollably (true).

(02) Much like ANYONE in this circumstance, I felt absolutely out of control. Much less, as a cancer researcher... there was nothing I could do. I want to note, in no way can I romanticize this experience.

I was a 24/7 cancer researcher - in the operating room at work, coming home to sit with my mother-in-law. The sun would set and rise and I was back in the operating room, repeating it again. Well, you get the picture.
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I was seeing the absolute, incredibly worst of human disease.

The thought alone just rips me apart. How did I get here? My husband gave me an ultimatum (in the most loving of ways, might I add)- continue your journey toward joy and return to a yoga practice or it's intervention time.

COMING BACK TO MYSELF

You see, just years before life got messy, I practiced yoga like it was my J - O - B. And then somewhere in between ... POOF. Yoga no more. I was 'busy' with work, my schedule changed week to week in the operating room, and now I had an excuse - my family needs me. So where did that leave me? ... Well, don't make me revisit that one...

I made it a point to roll out my mat every damn day. Damn, even if it meant my yoga was CRYING ON THE FLOOR. I took the time to feel that feely feel.

Stepping out of my comfort zone.

What next? I found COMMUNITY. I turned to yoga videos online, to private Facebook groups full of women going through similar experiences. And then I developed enough confidence (WHOA!) to step back in to a yoga studio.

I got the itch to bring yoga to women. I participated in a 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) to learn more about the practice. WHOA x2.

And soon after creating an online space to teach yoga, I had the opportunity to open my studio in Exton, build and mentor a team of supportive yoga instructors, and teach yoga as an adjunct faculty member at Temple University.
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Freeze Frame

To the Present Moment

I am so fortunate to work with, inspire, and coach spiritual seekers who are interested in embracing a yoga practice.

Yoga has personally inspired me to feel confident wrestling!, explore tools to ease my impatience, and recently meditated my way through my first home birth. Since becoming a mother, I am exclusively virtual through these trainings and, though my studio no longer has four walls, we've now welcomed students worldwide in our expansion online. I am grateful.

I am also living proof that a yoga practice can be such an empowering method to come back to your body, mind, and breath.
FEELING FREE + PHENOMENAL. LIVING MY YOGA

Yoga changed my life. Give it a chance to change yours.

If you're still with me (high five!), I want to let you in on a little secret. I couldn't have done this without a little help from my friends. Yoga teachers, fellow yogis, skeptics, family, you name it.

It took a VILLAGE to get me back on my hands and knees, to crawl, take baby steps, and to walk. And before you knew it I was back on both feet, ready to dive in to my yoga practice.

I know the time for you is now. Thankfully, I'm here for you every step of the way. If you're ready to get it all back, I urge you to join me - no better time than the present.
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Take a trip in the time machine ...

Hundreds of hours and students served. Years in the making. Here for you now.

2014 - 2017

A blog it is.

Years ago, I started a yoga blog called TheYogicBody, convinced I would be an online yoga teacher full time. The inspiration came while I was working as a cancer researcher, and in the midst of my mother in law's cancer diagnosis. Life was really hard. Yoga gave me purpose beyond the grueling work I called my job as a scientist.

2018

Surprise, here's your chance...

After years of practicing yoga online, I stepped back into in person classes. I completed a tried and true yoga teacher training program. Promising myself to always be a forever student.
Life is funny this way - soon after my teacher training program, I came to own and operate the yoga studio I trained in. And since have taught hundreds of students in studio and online.

2022 - Present

Time to deliver

After years of teaching at my yoga studio and some time as a university yoga lecturer, my mind circled back to yoga for the world. Yoga as a power of transformation. It began with the idea for a virtual yoga course for mothers. Until the idea for HigherVibe came into reality.

SEE YOU IN CLASS

Here's the long history, made short.

Yoga student since 2014

Started taking yoga as a Bio major at my university. The benefits were indescribable

Ex-scientist

Feels like a past life now, but my experience as a scientist informs what I teach you about yoga

Yoga studio owner for over half a decade

One of the biggest growth opportunities has been running my business. Welcome to the sister of my studio

University lecturer

It was a pinch me moment to teach this transformational practice at local universities for a time

So starts the story of a HIGHERVIBE

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