About Celia:

My initiation into somatic healing began eleven years ago. I was the founding director of a small nonprofit when I began to experience debilitating health symptoms that evaded mainstream treatments. Through the loving assistance of two healing guides, I began to understand my symptoms as messages my body was sending to me. As I attuned to my inner voice, I realized the life I was living was incongruent with my true heart’s desires.

At first, there was deep fear of leaving behind the safety I had cultivated. But every time I listened to my inner voice, my chronic symptoms would ease and I felt a world of possibility beyond my limited perspective. I followed that voice to the deepest depths of my soul and remotest corners of the world. Along the way, I have been the eternally-grateful recipient of many teachers’ wisdoms, combining new and old, local and global, East and West.

Fast forward many years later, I no longer experience any of my former chronic health symptoms and more importantly, I have cultivated an unwavering trust in my ability to alchemize life’s challenges.

My work focuses on five points of reconnection to self:

  1. The Erotic: Igniting Life-Force Energy

  2. The Emotional: Embracing feelings and releasing deep-seeded emotions

  3. The Natural: Cultivating our primal and wild self

  4. The Inner-Child & Ancestral: Healing primary wounds from birth, early childhood and ancestry

  5. The Energetic: Learning our role in the cosmos and channeling our unique gifts

My work is depathologizing, anti-hierarchical, co-creative, intuitive and trauma informed, meaning I value safety and integration.

I am a forever student, always learning and growing from my own journey and the lessons I receive from working with clients. I am grateful to call the Hudson Valley home. I live on the banks of the Shawangunk River with my dog Lady, who assists me enormously in my life’s work.

  • Family Constellation with Marilene Metzler and Harriet Goudard

  • Non-Violent Communication with Lyndsey Harrington

  • Yoga Alliance 200 hr YTT with Dan Ward

  • Somatic Experiencing with Lynne Price

  • Wellness & Breathwork, self study

  • Qigong and Taoist Tantra with Mantak Chia

  • Attachment Theory with Sue Johnson

  • Shamanism and Energetic Massage with Chi Kim

  • Herbalism and naturalism, self-taught and study with Desiree Wells

  • Shadow work, inner child healing and parts work with Emily Arin

  • School of Womanly Arts, Mastery Program with Regena Thomashauer

  • Ayurveda with Janine Ekulona

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aroma Acupoint Therapy, Shiatsu with Soteria Spyridakos

  • BA in Sociology from Pomona College

Training

  • Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year (Maryland, 2015)

  • The Daily Record, 20 in Their Twenties (2016)

  • Global Shapers Member, World Economic Forum

  • Ignition Award (2013)

  • The Napier Award for Creative Leadership (2012)

  • Joseph Meyerhoff Memorial Scholarship (2008)

  • TEDx Speaker

  • Aspen Institute Speaker

Awards

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