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"The pure nature of the mind- emptiness, lucidity, and intelligence without limit have always been inside us." Kalu Rinpoche |
Elizabeth Shelhart is a CMT ( Certified Massage Therapist ), a certified Birth Doula, and 500RYT ( Nationally Registered Yoga Teacher ). Elizabeth has always been deeply connected to the body and breath. She began studying dance when she was four years old and became a statewide competitive gymnast by the time she was nine. When she stopped training in gymnastics, Elizabeth came back to dance and eventually discovered yoga at the age of eighteen. Yoga was a perfect synthesis of her years of dance and gymnastics, and around this time she began studying Buddhism and Eastern religions as well. When she was twenty, Elizabeth lived in India for six months and fully immersed herself in the land of yoga's origins. This experience profoundly changed her life, and her yoga and meditation practice deepened. Upon return to the U.S., Elizabeth completed a yearlong Dharma Yoga teacher training. This approach emphasizes yoga postures as well as meditation and other Buddhist practices and philosophies. She also completed a Yoga for Injuries training, Prenatal Yoga training, and received her massage therapy license. Over the last few years, Elizabeth has studied more in-depth aspects of yoga and meditation with many renowned teachers such as Sarah Powers, Thich Nhat Hanh, Janice Gates, Tara Brach, and Paul Grilley. In the Spring of 2016 Elizabeth graduated from a two year Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga training at Spirit Rock which allows her to teach meditation as well as yoga. She also recently became a Yoga Alliance continuing education provider.
After many years in private practice as a yoga teacher and massage therapist, Elizabeth felt the deep calling to work with pregnant women and birth. Her work here began after she was asked to assist several close friends at their births. She felt honored to support these women and understood that more training would allow an even greater ability to help. In 2009, she attended Cornerstone Doula School and delved wholeheartedly into the medical as well as the spiritual aspects of childbirth.
As a yoga and meditation teacher, doula, and bodyworker, Elizabeth is passionate about creating optimal health and finds it rewarding to share this with her clients and students. She models what she teaches and loves to offer what she has learned through years of personal and spiritual work. Whole foods nutrition, herbal medicine, astrology, conscious dance, and stress reduction coaching are other modalities that she is well versed in. Elizabeth truly offers a holistic approach in her work. She loves guiding others to find their own understanding of presence, truth, joy, connection to their heart, and ease in their body~ allowing one's true nature to shine.
After many years in private practice as a yoga teacher and massage therapist, Elizabeth felt the deep calling to work with pregnant women and birth. Her work here began after she was asked to assist several close friends at their births. She felt honored to support these women and understood that more training would allow an even greater ability to help. In 2009, she attended Cornerstone Doula School and delved wholeheartedly into the medical as well as the spiritual aspects of childbirth.
As a yoga and meditation teacher, doula, and bodyworker, Elizabeth is passionate about creating optimal health and finds it rewarding to share this with her clients and students. She models what she teaches and loves to offer what she has learned through years of personal and spiritual work. Whole foods nutrition, herbal medicine, astrology, conscious dance, and stress reduction coaching are other modalities that she is well versed in. Elizabeth truly offers a holistic approach in her work. She loves guiding others to find their own understanding of presence, truth, joy, connection to their heart, and ease in their body~ allowing one's true nature to shine.
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Prayer Flags by Elizabeth at Shambhala Mountain Center- Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
Floating flowers by Elizabeth at Mount Madonna Retreat Center- Watsonville, CA
Yoga photo of Elizabeth by Allison Ulan
Beach Om unknown
Prayer Flags by Elizabeth at Shambhala Mountain Center- Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
Floating flowers by Elizabeth at Mount Madonna Retreat Center- Watsonville, CA
Yoga photo of Elizabeth by Allison Ulan