Ellen has helped people work towards better health and wellness since she became a nurse many years ago. While taking a break from nursing to raise her children, she began to practice
yoga. Her practice led her on a path to become a yoga teacher and a yoga therapist. As a yoga therapist, she has extensive training in all the tools of yoga, asana (physical poses), breathing
techniques, meditation, visualization, and deep relaxation as well as obtaining additional certifications in various health conditions.
She has taught these techniques to others, helping them find a more healthful life and an improved sense of well-being for the past 12 years as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist in private practice. For the past 3 ½ years she used her skills teaching cancer patients and their caregivers while they went through cancer treatments at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Behavioral Science as part of research studies. The focus was on asana,
breathing techniques, and meditation for stress management as they dealt with the side effects of cancer treatments.
She finds satisfaction and joy teaching and helping individuals because it empowers them to access their own inner self-healing abilities and allows them to move forward to a path of wellness.