Integrative Healing

Elizabeth has always been deeply connected to her path as a healer. Growing up in Marin County, she was often found trail running in the oak studded hills, riding horses, learning to surf, and falling in love with the natural world. She began studying dance when she was four, became a statewide competitive gymnast by the time she was nine, and discovered yoga at the age of eighteen. In her freshman year at UCSD, Elizabeth was on track to become a physician when she started studying Buddhism and Eastern religions. After 2 years at UCSD, she transferred to UCSC, pivoted away from pre-med, and received her BA in cultural Anthropology with a minor in Ethnobotany. During this time, Elizabeth also lived in India and attended the University of New Delhi for six months. She traveled extensively in the Himalayas, volunteered in orphanages in Calcutta, and fully immersed herself in traditional yogic and Ayurvedic practices. This experience profoundly changed her life. In 2000, Elizabeth completed a 200-hour Dharma Yoga teacher training which emphasized yoga postures as well as meditation and other Buddhist practices and philosophies. 

Over the years, Elizabeth has continually expanded her education through workshops and trainings such as: Prenatal Yoga training through Yoga Works, Restorative yoga training with Judith Lasater, Ayurvedic and Tui Na bodywork classes, an in-depth training in prenatal massage therapy, studies in acupressure and Qi Gong, alignment-based yoga workshops with Janice Gates and Sarah Powers, Western herbal certifications with Kami McBride and Christopher Hobbs, and a Yin yoga training with Paul Grilley. She also received her 300-hour conscious bodywork and massage therapy license in 2001 from the Alive and Well Institute.

After many years in private practice as a yoga teacher and massage therapist, Elizabeth felt the deep calling to work with families as a birth doula. In 2009, she attended Cornerstone Doula School in Oakland CA, apprenticed with a mother and daughter midwife team during her practical training, and delved wholeheartedly into the medical as well as the spiritual aspects of pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Elizabeth also had the great fortune to attend births as a midwife assistant at the high volume birth center Maternidad la Luz serving the borderland communities of El Paso Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Mexico.

In the Spring of 2016 Elizabeth deepened her connection to the Dharma and graduated from a two-year Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga training at Spirit Rock led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She also holds the esteemed status of a National Yoga Alliance 500 hour certified yoga teacher and continuing education provider. In 2018 Elizabeth was delighted to win Marin Magazine’s Best of the County award for most outstanding prenatal massage therapist.

Elizabeth continues to teach weekly yin and restorative yoga classes, yoga and meditation retreats, prenatal yoga classes, and childbirth education workshops as well as offering massage therapy in her Marinwood office. She has also taught prenatal massage classes for spas around the Bay Area, has been a guest speaker on several podcasts, and has mentored new doulas as they begin working with clients. Currently, Elizabeth is pursuing her Masters in Chinese Medicine and acupuncture from the Acupuncture and Integrative Medical College in Berkeley with an emphasis in Women’s Health and herbal medicine. Through is program she has interned at the Homeless Prenatal Project in San Francisco and in the orthopedic and sports medicine department at UC Berkeley. She will graduate in December of 2026 and is projected to be fully licensed by Spring 2027.

As a yoga and meditation teacher, herbalist, birth doula, bodyworker, and soon-to-be Chinese medicine practitioner and acupuncturist, Elizabeth is passionate about creating optimal health and vitality for the body, mind, and spirit. She is honored to share what she has learned through decades of personal growth and spiritual work. Elizabeth loves guiding and witnessing others deepen their sense of presence, connect to their wise and authentic heart, and relax into ease and joy in their body.