104: HEALING: Elisha Halpin, dance, the sacred, the nervous system and having an abiding curiosity

Memoir Body, Healing Story with Janelle Hardy

I’m chatting with Elisha Halpin a sacred life mentor and embodiment coach for visionaries, creatives, healers, and coaches.

Elisha Halpin is of Scotch-Irish, African, and Cherokee descent. She was raised in Tennessee near the lands of her Cherokee and Appalachian ancestors.

As a bridge Elisha was born as one who crosses the thresholds and integrates the Wisdom. Elisha is interested in swimming in deep waters of self-discovery, starts conversations in the middle, and is a sacred rebel at heart. She is a lover of liminal lands such as where the the sea meets the forest. She is also a lover of kitchen dance parties, her cat Xavier, and a good pen with sparkly ink .

Elisha is a sacred life mentor and embodiment coach for visionaries, creatives, healers, and coaches. As the Priestess behind the Leader, Elisha facilitates sacred leaders into the embodiment of their Soul’s Essence allowing them to trust their power, create their sacred service to have an impact, and authentically express their truth. As a channel of Divine Feminine wisdom, Elisha’s mission is a revolution of leadership through reclaiming our sacred nature and expanding our nervous system capacity.

Through Sacred Soul Somatics Elisha weaves her 20+ year career as a tenured professor of somatics and dance with Breathwork, Neurosculpting, Energy work, and transpersonal psychology for a whole system approach to healing and transformation. As a professor, Elisha was an embedded faculty member in the Arts and Design Research Incubator with her research into somatic interventions for trauma and stress.

Elisha believes that our bodies are beautiful ruins, sites of pilgrimage, and carriers of the remembrances of time. This was deeply activated in her viscerally on her first trip to Ireland when she met the crumbling stones and began to move from within.

Elisha’s work teaches that our lives are constantly in ruin, continually breaking down, turning over, and decomposing the past. It is in this breaking down that we become the sacred place of pilgrimage, of magic. This is what the sacred journey of Embodiment can teach us if we are willing.

Website: www.elishahalpin.com