Wellness Therapist

Elena has been involved with Movement, Body wisdom, and the Healing Arts for 27 years.

Her mom put her in gymnastics when she was two because she was ‘Wild’. She still identifies deeply with her wildness as a kind of authenticity and listening into the deep rhythms of life that grounds her work as a healer, artist, and human.  She finds herself at home in the woods, in places still inhabited by a more feral and unadulterated wisdom and rhythm. Her bodywork is born of this fluid language, healing as a bridge between form and formlessness, said and unsaid, human and nonhuman. Healing is at the core, an art of listening, and bodywork languages us back to the core of our experience which is the nonverbal.

Elena’s training is in integrative massage, polarity, contact improvisation, authentic movement, somatic psychology, matrix leadership, non-violent communication, grief work, body-based sexuality education, physical theatre, herbalism, yoga, reflexology, childbirth support, and abdominal therapies.

She studied at Naropa University and Healing Spirits Massage School, as well as numerous other training grounds and the ever unfolding school of her life. She also practices weaving, writes poetry, and farms. She loves any practice that slows her out of the culture of rushing into an ever more savored and beautiful life. She enjoys nurturing others into these slower rhythms where they can awaken more deeply to their underground waters just waiting to bubble up to feed this modern life. In this way, she also sees the healing arts and her service as a kind of activism towards simple touch-based connection, slowing down, soulful presence, and body-sourced wisdom. She is passionate about healing at the community level, shifting power structures from the inside, finding personal power and choice, living in right relationship with all beings, and a sense of play and curiosity in all things.

Elena loves to travel, dance contact improv, grow food, hike, cook, host gatherings and go to hot springs.

Services provided by Elena:
Private Yoga Classes 60/90/120min, Vinyasa Flow Yoga 90min, Gentle Yoga 90min, Meditation Classes, Wellness Consultation, Integrative Massage 60/75/90min (Reflexology, Trigger Point, Abdominal Work) – Deep Tissue Massage 60/90/120min – Relaxation Massage 60/90/120min, Intuitive Guidance Coaching 60min (Focus on a Question/or Life Issue, consulting with guidance to support deepening wisdom/illumination, somatic inquiry, trauma aware )