TEACHER BIOGRAPHY
Ellen Emmet
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher in the non-dual tradition Francis Lucille.
Hearing his words, she recognized the universal nature of our shared reality. Over the years, this understanding continued to unfold and to touch all levels of her experience.
At the same time, Ellen has never ceased to delve into the depths of human experience, seen and unseen, thirsting for a wholeness and connectedness which appeared to be lost or obscured. This unstoppable quest brought her to therapy, Jungian analysis, Authentic Movement and creative writing.
She sensed that each of our lives is a journey of revelation and integration (including its darker crossings) through which the face of truth can shine uniquely and anew, wedding us to our direct experience and connecting us to the great family of creation.
As a child, she knew without words the joy and limitlessness that the body touched when it was free and allowed. As an adolescent and young adult, she acutely felt and enacted suffering through her body. Thus, the experience that we call the body has always been central to all her experiences and recognitions. It is the place of pain and expression, the channel for raw and tactile intelligence, the mirror of the totality of creation and the pathway to healing.
Her quest for the feminine face of God brought her to the shores and source of the river Ganga, and to the simple, wordless meetings with the women in the Indian villages. Subsequently she met Marion Woodman, a Jungian analyst and wise woman.
Today, she offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body, a direct exploration of experience sourced in the non-dual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Authentic Movement, and self-inquiry.
In addition, she has a private practice as a psychotherapist, and facilitator of Authentic Movement.
Credentials: MA Dance-Movement Therapy (New York University) ; MA in Transpersonal Psychology (John F. Kennedy University, CA); Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis.
