About Elizabeth

Over two decades ago, Elizabeth made one of the hardest choices of her life. Sixteen years of professional ballet training had left her on the edge of a career and in the grip of an eating disorder that made continuing to dance dangerous, if not impossible. She could keep forcing a path that had become unsustainable, or choose another. She chose to listen to her body, and to the self she'd been silencing.

She has spent the last twenty years teaching yoga and mindfulness, and the last ten specializing in somatic awareness — five of them as an adjunct instructor at Sonoma State University.

Her coaching work is built on the humanistic traditions of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, the teachings of Zen Buddhism, and the foundations of somatic awareness and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing — all woven into a one-of-a-kind coaching method rooted in the core belief: you already have the capacity to grow and the agency to change inside of you.

Her clients are authors, teachers, therapists, artists, and business owners — people whose work is to think and feel, but who have often gone quiet about what they themselves want. Therapy may have given you the words for that. That's the first half. Elizabeth's work is the other half — learning to read the signals your body is already sending you: where stress is hiding, when a decision is right (or wrong), when you're about to overwhelm yourself, how to achieve that magic word balance — and using that information to decide, perform, and lead more clearly. It's a skill that compounds.

She works one-on-one in somatic coaching, leads the Reclaiming Your Life After Divorce series for women, and guides the Beyond the Noise retreats. Her weekly yoga and Pilates classes are open to everyone.