Be yourself.
Like, really.
I help overthinkers, self-critics and perfectionists to loosen the grip on themselves and allow their natural, creative life force to carry them towards a life they own and love.
Standing up for yourself
…can mean different things at different points in your life.
It can look like leaving a job that drains the life out of your soul.
It could mean changing the way you relate with others, communicating your needs and drawing boundaries.
It can also mean upgrading the relationship with your own Self, listening more actively and deepening your compassion towards your body, your mind, your inner world.
We are here for real, rebellious self-care.
Far away from bubble baths and and massages, we have to start asking the real questions.
What do I really want from life? What do I really need? What is my heart longing for?
Real self-care is curious, courageous, and unapologetically honest. It may lead you out of your comfort zone, challenging you to make uncomfortable decisions and going against conventions.
It may ask you to go where no one else has ever gone - into that place of your own heart, your embodied wisdom, your innermost truth, and trust that what you find there is the map that leads you to your bigger life - aligned with your values, your core needs, your joy.
Real self-care is for the brave ones, the heart-warriors, the soul-searchers.
And I am here to walk this path with you, getting you out of your head and into your heart, the flow of your own energy, where everything you need is readily available for you, waiting to be found.
I know it hurts to be stuck.
My name is Elena, and I am a certified Somatic Coach and an experienced Yoga teacher. Today.
I am also the survivor of my radical career and life shift a few years back, out of a stressful architecture job, an unaligned partnership, and a country I felt like an alien in, still recovering from the burnout and anxiety those long years of holding on to those things has caused me.
I intimately know the pain of overstaying in situations you know you should leave and instead doing what you’re supposed to do instead of what you want to do.
I am too familiar with nagging thought spirals of “what if I’m wasting my life away” that keep you up at night.
And I know the sticky feeling of wanting to make a move, to get out, to break free, but staying frozen on the cliff out of fear of the leap.
I took the leap into the unknown, and it was scary, and nerve wracking, and so worth it. I know now that the pain I felt was my catalyst for growth and that every shadow ultimately points to the light.
It is my burning desire to help more humans get unstuck and dare to follow their heart, and I am here to hold a compassionate, earthy space for you to unfold your own magic.
Embodied Authenticity Coaching
Us humans are amazingly intelligent beings. But we spend way too much time in our heads.
To really get to the core of resistance, fear and pain we need to come from a few different angles and combine top-down (from brain to body) and bottom-up (from body to brain) approaches. It’s really a matter of learning to understand your own language, physically, emotionally, and intuitively.
In my unique blend of 1:1 Somatic Coaching, Yoga and mind-body-integration techniques, and Nervous System education we dive beneath the surface of what you already know (and probably have thought over and over a million times now ;)) and uncover the subconscious blocks, emotional memories and held body tensions that keep you from making your step forward.
It’s a no-bullsh*tting-yourself-way of meeting your Self in all honesty and making room for your intuition to take the lead.
Somatic Yoga & Breathwork
Learn how to translate energy into movement, trust your body, and release tensions intuitively
Embodied Self-Awareness Coaching
Acess your bodymind’s wisdom and shift resistance into growth
Nervous System Education
Become familiar with your autonomic response patterns and develop your personal regulating resources
Knowing the kind of person you want to be is one thing.
Being her is a different story.
The confidence that you are looking for, to be who you want to be, is not to be found through mindset or behaviour changes.
It lies at the bottom of your self, at the intersection between your body, your emotions, your thoughts, your spirit.
It is a part of you that wants to be unpacked somatically, with patience and compassion, so that it can blossom into your true expression of yourself in this world.
I am here to help you connect with your innermost truth, so that you can navigate your life from embodied confidence and authenticity.
Welcome, bendy.
This is a place for bold soul-searchers seeking profound transformation.
The ones who are brave enough to be themselves, in all their facets, with all their beauty and with all their shadows.
I know it can be scary.
Living yourself fully means to look at the sides that are not so joyful, not as easy-going, and not as bright. It can be especially hard when you are in the middle of everything, and you’d rather just close your eyes and wait till the storm is over instead of facing whatever is waiting for you in the dark.
Most of us would rather stay low, and stay small.
I got you.
And I’d like to show you the beauty of the shadow.
I’d like to guide you on how to bring your own light into those dark scenes, a soft awareness on all those pains, resistances, and critics, and learn to read the path they reveal underneath.
What would happen if you could just be with all of that, in a wide capacity of holding yourself in all your iterations, and let things shift without forcing them?
I am here to sit with you with the complex, so that you can take away the simple.
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Finding the way out of the dark is a process that only unfolds when you watch the darkness long enough for your eyes to adjust.
- Elena
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