Jolie ENsign
Founder
Teacher & Nutritionist
MS Health Promotion & Wellness
Nutritionist and Wellness Strategist
NASM CPT/CES, RYT 500
Certified Movement & Mobility Specialist
Jolie earned both her BS and MS in Health Promotion and Wellness from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (proudly a Packers fan for life!). During her graduate studies, she worked with the Becoming An Outdoors Woman (BOW) program and spent years guiding wilderness expeditions, paddling canoes, and backpacking across the U.S. and Canada. Though she’s traded in her backpacking boots for mountain biking, she still enjoys stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and embraces the lake life with activities like houseboating and wakesurfing.
An advocate for both active living and mindful rest, Jolie balances her high-energy pursuits with practices like yoga and meditation. She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Yoga Durango in 2015 and recently achieved her 300-hour advanced certification with Albina Rippy in 2024. With over 20 years of yoga experience, Jolie integrates movement and mindfulness into her daily life.
In addition to her passion for movement, Jolie follows a low-sugar, whole-foods-based diet that keeps her feeling fit, agile, and energized. She believes in nourishing the body with real, nutrient-dense foods to support a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
Lauren Brown
Holistic Nutrition Therapist, NTM
Yoga and Meditation Teacher
Lauren’s interest in health and wellness began at an early age as a student and collegiate athlete. Movement has always been a meaningful part of her life, recognizing its influence on how she engages with the people and the world around her. Whether it be a soccer scrimmage, mountain bike ride, dip in an alpine lake, or asana practice, movement has felt like an essential expression of herself and her joy and appreciation for life.
Yoga has been a formative part of Lauren’s life since her younger years. In her early 20’s, she decided to deepen her practice and education in yoga by taking her first teacher training in Hatha yoga and Hridaya meditation. Since then, she has taken over 1,000 hours of yoga teacher trainings and courses to deepen her knowledge of the physical, energetic and spiritual benefits of yoga, and how to highlight them in her offerings as a facilitator. Beyond education in asana (the physical practice of yoga), Lauren has received in-depth education on yogic philosophy and ancient texts, as well as more modern teachings that specialize in yoga for stress and anxiety, yoga for women’s wellness, and trauma-informed facilitation. Yoga, in its totality, has transformed and shaped Lauren’s life in some of the most beautiful ways, and being able to share the power of the practice with others lights her up like nothing else.
Lauren’s studies in yoga lead her to considering a path in nutrition therapy by way of the foundational courses she took in Ayurveda, known as the “sister science” of yoga. Ayurveda, and other holistic approaches to wellness resonated with her during a time when a close family member of hers found out they had an incurable autoimmune disease. This inspired Lauren to earn a degree in holistic nutrition therapy from the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Arvada, CO to learn more about how nutrition can affect our entire system, particularly the immune and endocrine systems. She sees nutrition as a foundational aspect of health and wellness, physically, energetically, mentally and spiritually; acknowledging that how we choose to fuel and feed ourselves is a direct reflection of what we believe about ourselves. Lauren believes that, as with all things in health and wellness, there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and that honoring bio- individuality is a key part of the work she does. It is Lauren’s mission to help people improve their relationship to food and self, to give them the tools and education they need to reach their unique wellness goals and, most importantly, to thrive.
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