Limited Woo Mindful Healing

change.yoga creates space through peer mentoring, yoga, & meditation for you to develop & follow your path to wellness, stability, & authenticity. as a peer mentor, i work to empower you to create & stay engaged in your recovery journey. the overall goals of my trauma-informed & somatic-based approach are to cultivate empowerment & community.. the foundation of our work together is helping you connect to your body. as you learn to connect & trust your body, you can gain more confidence in yourself & begin to understand that you’re the only expert of your body & experiences.

i’m a fat, white, autistic, atheist, agender, queer, disabled spoonie+ & singleton++ with adhd who strives to create safe spaces for joyful movement & practical stillness for all humans. i founded change.yoga, am anti-diet, & pro-self-empowerment. i live, practice, & teach with several chronic physical & mental illnesses including autoimmune & endocrine diseases, depression, anxiety, & suicidal thoughts.

as part of my own recovery journey, i use my lived experience as much as possible to aid others in their journey, in addition to doing this through yoga & meditation, i’m a certified peer recovery supporter.

before becoming a yoga teacher, i had practiced yoga for over 15 years off & on. after being diagnosed with several chronic illnesses, i found my way back to a consistent practice including meditation & breathwork. my teaching philosophy is that i am here to help my students build their own practice in order to empower themselves to gain all the benefits yoga has to offer. when i’m not practicing or teaching yoga, i’m a wannabe artist, chef, & servant to my feline master lovingly known as #AssholeCat.

+spoonies are people living with chronic illness/pain & comes from the spoon theory by christina miserandino

++singletons, as opposed to systems, are people who don’t have dissociative identity disorder (DID). go here to learn more about DID.

elliot's lived experience includes:
trauma
chronic illnesses
being queer/nonbinary
surviving domestic violence/emotional abuse
being fat
being disabled
living with mental illnesses

Preferred Online Communication Platform: Google Meet, Zoom
Style:
Straight-talk / Tough-love
Gentle / Comforting
Scientific / Rational
Empathic / Listening
Practical / Advice
Creative
Religious
Interests:
Addiction
ADHD
Alcoholism
Anxiety
Astrology
Bipolar
Body image
Business
Caretaking
Depression
Divorce
Drugs
Eating disorders
Excessive gaming
Gambling
Gender
Health
Hoarding
Marriage
OCD
Parenting
Politics
Religious
Romance
Self-Improvement
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Issues
Sleeping issues
Smoking
Social Issues
Trauma
Veteran
Inspirations:
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Adlerian Psychoanalysis
Anger Management
Animal-Assisted
Art Therapy
Astrological Counseling
Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT)
Authentic Movement
Aversion Therapy
Behaviorism
Bhuddism
Bibliotherapy
Bioenergetic Analysis
Biofeedback
Body-Mind Psychotherapy
Breathwork
Christianity
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Collaborative Couple Therapy (CCT)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Critical Incident Stress Management
Dance / Movement Therapy (DMT)
Developmental Model of Couples Therapy
Developmental Psychology
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Drama Therapy
Dream Analysis
Dreamwork
Ecotherapy / Nature Therapy
Emotional Freedom Technique
Encounter-Centered Couples Therapy (EcCT)
Energy Psychology
Equine-Assisted Therapy
Existential Psychotherapy
Exposure Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Feldenkrais Method
Feminist Therapy
Focusing
Gestalt Therapy
Gottman Method
Guided Therapeutic Imagery
Healing Touch
Health Psychology
Hinduism
Holistic Psychotherapy
Humanistic Psychology (humanism)
Hypnotherapy
Life Experience
Integral Psychotherapy (IP)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Islam
Journal Therapy
Judaism
Jungian Psychotherapy
Logotherapy
Marriage Counseling
Mindfulness
Motivational Interviewing
Movie Therapy
Music Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Neuropsychology
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Play Therapy
Poetry Therapy
Positive Psychology
Psychedelic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis / Modern Psychoanalysis
Psychodrama
Psychodynamic Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Reality Therapy
Regression Therapy
Relational Psychotherapy
Religious (Other)
Reminiscence Therapy (RT)
Self-Help
Shamanic Journeying / Psycho Shamanic
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Sport / Fitness Psychology
Time Line Therapy
Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Transactional Analysis
Voice Therapy
Wilderness Therapy