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Somatic Healing Rooted in Nature, Grounded in Science

Certificate Program

Where cutting-edge science meets the wisdom of the body.

A program for practitioners ready to understand somatic work — and teach confidently from it.

Farm to Table Meals | Gentle Yoga | Science of Embodiment

Receive 28 Continuing Education hours for licensed professionals.

Ellen weaves cutting-edge science with the lost wisdom of the body — offering a rare synthesis that is both clinically rigorous and deeply nourishing. Through powerful experiential practices, you will learn to trust your body as a guide and carry that knowing into your life and your work.

Her approach — The Compassion Cultivation Cycle™ — offers a new paradigm: not self-improvement, but wholeness. This will not replace your current toolbox; it will amplify it.

Give yourself this gift. And take this beyond your personal life into family, community, and work settings.

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  • “Ellen has the ability to blend a variety of historic teachings with a modern point of view. Her lessons have helped me stay present in my life - no matter what is happening around me.”

    Natalie, This Mindful Life Member

  • “Ellen truly intertwines her professional psychological expertise with grounding physical practices. The application is palpable and immediate with gentle guidance to integrate into future mindfulness practice and growth.”

    Anne, Compassion Retreat Participant

  • "The Head and Heart approach makes complex ideas and scientific understanding really accessible so that you have tools you can actually work with that will be helpful and positively impact your everyday life."

    Linda, Clinical Social Worker, Cultivation Cycle Trainee

  • "Everything Head and Heart offers has the intention of expanding self compassion at its core."

    JP, Integrative Coach, Compassion Cultivation Cycle Trainee

THE COMPASSION CULTIVATION CYCLE™

An Evidence Based Path To Building Compassion & Intuition

Emerging from 20 years of clinical practice, academic fellowships and research, alongside lived experience comes a framework for approaching yourself and others — with honesty, compassion, and the evolutionary wisdom of the body.

The Compassion Cultivation Cycle integrates:

Psychology

Somatic Awareness

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Kinship Ecology

About Me

MY NAME IS ELLEN

I am a human, writer, therapist, and teacher dedicated to reclaiming intuition and the truth of interdependence. Through lived experience and relentless passion — rooted in two decades of clinical practice, indigenous home stays, and deep nature immersion — I created the Compassion Cultivation Cycle™, an evolutionary and cultural compass that illuminates the path away from our intuition, and the path home. It is not a model I teach from a distance. It is a landscape I inhabit. It would be an honor learn alongside you.

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I am passionate about reshaping our cultural approach to stress & overstimulation.