Our bodies are a living landscape of
Wild Images.
Become a Therapeutic Photographer and unlock their healing power
Become a Certified
Therapeutic Photographer
7-Month Certification Program
This practitioner training has four core pillars. We’ll be building our creative learning and practice on these foundational elements.
An immersive training for the photographer, artist, and storyteller…
Our body is a living archive of images.
‘Wild Images’ reflect our authentic nature and creating them unlocks a reservoir of vitality. After creating 10,000+ wild images for clients over a decade of professional practice, I am offering an in-person workshop for those interested in learning the healing power of photography.
This training is both a sanctuary to receive nourishment and inspiration for yourself and a unique healing modality for your clients and community.
The Infinite Body Certification Program is designed for helpers and healers who serve individuals and wish to learn this pioneering process which integrates nature connection, creative expression, embodiment and ceremony.
Using the Infinite Body practice as our curriculum, this program provides in-depth training, mentoring, practice groups, and curated resources to help you develop the skills and knowledge necessary to bring this modality into your life and work.
By completing the certification program, you gain a deeper understanding of the principles, techniques, and philosophies behind the Infinite Body modality while accessing our online library and growing international network.
The certification program involves a combination of four day-long training sessions that are centered on each pillar of the modality, weekly Practicum Lessons taught live or audio experiences by Jenny, monthly practice group meetings, and a 3 month creative c
About Inifinite Body
Hi, I’m Jenny. Infinite Body was born out of my own need for healing. In 2015, I entered a dark night of the soul. Stuck in a toxic relationship for the previous 15 years left me empty, lost, and suicidal, I was desperate to find myself. I had very little tools and resources. But I had a camera, and perhaps out of desperation and nothing left to give to a life I no longer wanted, I turned the lens on myself. Something sparked. What began as a self-expression experiment led to healing I didn’t know was possible, as well as a fulfilling career.
some of my early self-portraits, each unlocking profound healing for me
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
Pillar 1/
Portrait as Portal
Portrait photography has a long history based in our desire to see ourselves. But where does this desire come from, and where can it take us? The relationship between photographer, camera, lens, landscape and client is a complex one. Approached as a portal for healing, the resulting portrait opens up healing pathways. Creating portraits can open up portals to the Deep Self. This is what we will explore in the first pillar of the workshop. You will have your own portrait made by myself. This will provide you with direct experience of what emerges around our latent fears of being seen, which is a necessary awareness when working with others.
Pillar 2/
Embodiment & Wild Imagination
In order to open up pathways for Wild Images to emerge, we must first be able to guide clients into deeper layers of embodiment. Within the body, clients are able to gain access to their wild imagination. Wild imagination is an innate capacity we all have to source images and visions from within that are truly authentic. In this pillar, we will learn about how the nervous system responds to being seen and learn techniques for guiding individuals through somatic blocks into a deeper terrain within themselves. You will track your own nervous systems response as well as work with other participants.
Pillar 3/
Animism and Nature Connection
I believe the body and the self are not separate from the rest of existence. I centralize and weave an animist world view into my creative work. One of the aspects I love about my work is letting the land speak to me, inviting bodies to have direct experience with nature while at the same time creating representative images of earth and body. When I prepare to take images of a client, I tune into their story and their energy, and I ask the land where our ritual work together needs to take place.We’ll explore how to ask permission to the land when you’re doing a session so you can build a reciprocal relationship with nature. We’ll discuss tools and rituals for orienting people to their bodies using their connection to nature, and how to lean into the elements in the ecosystem to support the container you are creating. We’ll talk about how to co-create with the land and with the body.
Pillar 4/
The Mythic Lens
Mythology is the way that our culture organizes the body’s experience. The images of myth speak to the living process of being human. The archetypal symbols in myth are actually animating patters that live in our bodies. When we have abandoned our bodies, the mythic lens can be used to guide the way out of the somatic wasteland, to point the way to watersheds of somatic vitality, and to symbolize the healing process of our personal and collective mythos.We'll explore how to create mythopoetic portraits and storytelling sessions in which clients are able to tap into the mythic images that live inside of their bodies, bringing embodiment and creative expression to transmute
Together, we will learn to guide others into raw, stripped down places where they can bravely express themselves.
In our first day together
we’ll begin by explore our unique creative process by taking self-portraits. Self-portrait is a powerful tool for you to deepen into your own embodiment, to personally experience the power of being on the other side of the lens while experimenting within your creative process
In our second day together
we’ll practice leaning into the vulnerability of being photographed by someone else. You will be encouraged to connect with other photographers in your area and to ask them to hold therapeutic space for you. They do not need to be trained as a therapeutic photographer but you will work collaboratively with them in co-creating a therapeutic container
Meet your guide
I am Jenny Ann Holden
I know deeply in my bones that the artist’s path is the most authentic path for me.
I am a self-taught, self-guided photographer, and I’ve held well over a hundred therapeutic photography sessions.
Therapeutic photography as a form of self-therapy has been a field of study and practice since the 1970s. The traditional form of therapeutic photography is how I began. But offering these types of sessions as a practitioner is a whole new unique terrain I’ve developed over many years of engaging in this work.
I intuitively picked up the camera as a therapeutic tool 10 years ago during a deep depression, struggling with PTSD, living far away from home, and in a toxic relationship.
I remember the day this journey began. I couldn’t leave my apartment because I was so anxious. I was desperate to make art, but found myself trapped in my anxious body. Looking around me, I realized I had a camera. I put flowers in my hair, and I took a photo. And that’s how this all began.
At the time, I simply wanted to experiment with self-expression because I felt so disembodied. But when I saw the photo I took, my own image reflected back to me, something cracked open inside of me. “There I am,” I thought to myself. And I kept going.
For years I’d make an image, edit it, and learn to hold my nervous system, flooded with the emotion and vulnerability of it all. Through my photography, I began to collect these fragmented parts of myself and weave them together into a whole. As I shared my images, I integrated the lost parts of myself and practiced embodying all of me.
My Mentorship Approach
What would it take for us to reweave ourselves and our work back into the dream, into a story that is bigger than ourselves, into a reciprocal relationship with the living world?
What would it feel like to fall back in love with the land and the other-than-humans we share our lives with, to be in communication and kinship with them, to experience the tides, flows and cycles of our own nature again?
These are the questions that I am constantly guided by and helped me to form an animate world view that is at the root of the mentorship that I offer. I am in service to a shift in our culture and believe that as individuals we need to support one another to embody this new story.
We are each seeking our deepest belonging. It’s not my job to tell you what you need in order to live well. I don’t know your life story or path more than you do. It’s my job to hold space for the process to emerge, and to witness and acknowledge your desires as vital to your wellbeing. I will look out for patterns (energetic and habitual), reflect what I’m seeing, ask great questions to help you find your truth, and support you in unraveling what’s entangling you.
We are all inherently good. We are here to remove anything obscuring your brilliance, or your ability to see it. We are here to unhook you from comparison, criticism, and being liked. We are here to help you honor your unique brilliance, and be free to lead in your unique ways.
Our wild, embodied genius is needed. Our most authentic expression is such vital medicine to ourselves, to others but also the culture that we live within. I am here to affirm and create safe pathways for you to authentically express your genius, your embodiment, your stories, your truth.
Our embodied edge reveals the way. I don’t like to dictate what success or accomplishment in this work looks like. What feels true is that when we slow down to listen to our bodies we are letting our bodies move outside of our survival systems in order to experience other ways of knowing. It is from this place that the regenerative path forward emerges and we are able to find our way into the unknown.
