Have we met?

Hey, I’m Elle.

I’m an embodiment guide who sometimes forgets to listen to my body. I’m a rest teacher who still nudges up against the edges of her capacity and burns a little too hard. I’m a breathworker who is continually evolving her relationship with the breath.

I’m a queer femme. I’m a witch. I’m a creator of things. I’m a dork. A Libra sun, Gemini moon, and an Aries rising. A former rock and roll party girl who doesn’t drink any more and loves to be in bed by 10pm. A intersectional feminist who feels kinda sketchy about word feminist these days. Currently obsessed with learning pottery, knitting a cardigan that I’ll hopefully have done before the weather gets too warm to wear it, deepening my understanding of somatics and trauma, and world building with my business.

All of these words that point to parts but are not the whole picture. Like flashes of a person refracted through a kaleidoscope.

Doing the best we can do with language. It can never express the whole of us, the complex iceberg of aliveness inside us all, but maybe it gives you a vague shape of who I am and how I move through the world.

Perhaps it’s a little easier to describe the work I do.

At the root of everything I do is the question of how we can embody otherwise.

I work with creatives, witches, queers, and changemakers, supporting them in becoming more embodied. We use breath, somatics and rest to help them learn the language of their body, navigate their nervous system, and tune into the truth of who they are, what they need to feel fully alive.

I’m curious about the ways that we can exist (thrive even!) beyond the destructive systems we currently live within. How we create something better, starting within our own bodies, our ways of moving through the world. Capitalism and colonialism have robbed us of connection to ourselves, one another, the living world, and magic. The body is a powerful place to reclaim and reimagine those connections.

And this is the space where I write about those themes.

I’m committing to being here more often. I want to get better at letting myself be witnessed in process. Writing is how I make sense of my experience of the world, and I want to share that rather than piling on the pressure to write some grandiose essay with all The Answers (tm). I am practicing.

So yeah, that’s me. That’s the work I do. Thank you for being here.

I’d love to know a little about you too, so I can picture you out there as I write. Tell me in the comments: what are you currently obsessed with? What are you practicing at the moment?