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About Me
Hi, I'm Elissa. I am on a journey, and I
invite you to join me. This is a
journey of self-discovery and
exploration. Do not take it lightly.
This is a journey that will connect you
to the center of your being, which will
allow you to tap into your inner
personal power. From this place you
will be able to bring to your life that
which you desire.
I began my journey in 2002 when I moved from Orange County, California
to Norfolk, Virginia. I was single. I knew no one in Norfolk, and yet I was
following an inner yearning with the desire to manifest three things:
1.) To further my career
2.) To find a life partner
3.) To establish my own spiritual roots.
The move to Norfolk was for a new job. So, my career advanced. I have
since moved to Altanta on to my dream job, product development in
interactive television at the corporate headquarters of Cox
Communications, America's third largest cable provider.
Three months after moving to Norfolk, I met my now husband, Troy, and
we were married a year later. In 1997, I had written down everything that I
wanted in a husband, and Troy fit my desires right down to the detail of
having dark eyebrows (they’re very dark!) and giving me hugs around my
back while I'm doing the dishes.
And, soon after moving to Norfolk, I met the teachers who provided me with
the tools that I needed as a means to establish my own spiritual roots and
begin a process of deep transformation.
The transformation happened at an accelerated pace. I now have a new
operating system from which I experience life - one with a minimal number
of glitches. This allows me to choose my reality, and I have chosen one of
joy, peace, love, and abundance. As these qualities radiate from my
being, I receive the benefit of feeling connected to the experience of life,
connected to others, and the receiving the manifestation of many of my
desires. This is my path. I invite you to re-member your path, and to do
this with me via the teleclasses, workshops and one-on-one coaching that I offer.
With my focus, my experience in manifesting my desires, and my
experience in my own personal transformation, I have the tools that I can
pass on to you for your own transformation. I will assist you in connecting
to your inner essence, tapping into your personal power, transmuting
limiting beliefs, manifesting your desires, and creating your reality ~ one
filled with joy, peace, love, and abundance.
When I moved to Norfolk in 2002, that was a pivot point for me. At the time of
my move, the reality that I played out in life was one where I felt the victim of
people and events in my life. I felt as though I had no control over what “was
happening to me”, and what I was experiencing.
I felt quite helpless, actually. I sought out counseling from a therapist. And yet,
I felt like I was talking, talking, talking, and not receiving answers or practical
tools which would help me to experience a life that felt more pleasant.
Shortly after starting to see the therapist, I enrolled in Anna Pittman’s Yoga
Alliance approved 500 Hour Hatha Yoga and Self Study Program. Through self
study, I was able to see how I was responsible for the patterns that were
showing up in my life. And I was shown how to apply yogic principles to my life
to shift those patterns. With this help, I was beginning to notice a difference in
the way that I experienced life. I didn't feel as helpless.
Right around the same time that I enrolled in Anna’s yoga teacher training
program, I signed up for a Barrett Breathworks workshop with Gabrielle
Gerard. Prior to this workshop, I had a pain in my chest, right above my heart,
that was constant and had lasted for months. It felt like extreme uncomfortable
pressure, like an elephant was stepping on my chest. I saw a few doctors
about this condition, and the only thing they could think of was to prescribe anti-depressants. Well, I got into this workshop right in the nick of time, because I
discovered in one day, that in working with the breath, the pain subsided – and
anti-depressants were NOT required.
I eventually learned in continuing to study breathwoks with Gabrielle, that
emotions (e-motions) are “e”nergy in motion, and directing the breath directs
energy. So freeing the breath frees the energy, which results in freeing
emotions. Through personal reflection, I discovered that the pain in my chest
was related to unintegrated emotions in my heart center. Through breathworks
I was able to work to free unintegrated emotions. What a gift this release was
to me. The weight from my chest literally had lifted.
In addition to Anna and Gabrielle, I also met Mary Elizabeth Marlow. Early in the
self-study yoga training program with Anna, I mentioned to her that I was
seeing a therapist, and that I wasn’t really noticing much difference in my life.
She said, “it doesn’t have to be that way”. And, she let me know about Mary
Elizabeth.
The most striking insight that I gained from my time with Mary Elizabeth, was
from something that she had me consider. After hearing me talk about the
pain that I was feeling as a result of the people in my life she said to me,“consider the possibility that before coming into this life, you made agreements
with these individuals that you would play out these roles. That ‘so-and-so’
would know just what do to make you feel ‘such-and-such’, so that you might
have an opportunity to look within, observe your tendencies and patterns so
that you can shift them. And, at the end of this life, you will say to ‘so-and-so’,‘Well done! You deserve and Academy Award for that role that you played.
Thank you!’”
At first I was so appauled that she would suggest that I would sign up for the
pain that I was experiencing. And dumbfounded to consider that I would thank
someone for “causing” me the pain I felt. After it had a chance to sink in
though, I entertained that thought. Looking at my circumstances from that
angle allowed me to take responsibility for my reality, so that if I was
experiencing something that I was not enjoying, I had to take responsibility for
changing it into something that I did enjoy ~ no matter what the cost.
In addition to this life shifting insight, Mary Elizabeth introduced me to
examining my dreams to as another way to observe and shift the patterns that
were appearing in my life. This is a process that I find fun, and I love to
continue to do.
Then, in 2006, Anna and I attended the 20th World Congress on Illumination in
Kauai, Hawaii. Lighworkers from 22 countries from around the world gathered
with the Legions of Light to bring in the violet flame of transmutation for
humanity on mother earth.
It was here that I met Suzanna Kennedy. And, soon after that, I was enrolled in
her Divine Human Upgrade teleclass. The process that I went through in this
program, was like a deep housecleaning. While in the four years prior to this I
had been working through awareness to observe and shift patterns with the
tools that I learned in my training, the tools I was using prior to meeting
Suzanna was like hand washing dishes one dish at a time. The Divine Human
Upgrades was like washing a whole load of dishes in the dishwasher all at
once. It was a quantum leap in my growth. Another way to say that is that it
was a quantum leap into a consciousness which is more expanded -
expanded consciousness.
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