Elise began her love of free dance expression as a child, spending hours dancing her heart out to Maria Carey in her room.

In college Elise was nursing a knee injury after running a marathon and stumbled upon her first conscious dance form called Nia. It was the first movement she had found that made her knee pain better instead of worse.

 She got her white belt in Nia and taught classes in Waco while living and working on an organic vegetable farm.

While living on the farm Elise would join her friends in full moon ecstatic dance bonfire dances. This experience was so grounding and freeing, striking a chord in her to look for other dance spaces that played on our own intuitive movements.

Later in Fort Collins, Elise found a conscious/ ecstatic dance class she fell in love called Soul Kitchen dance. This became a part of her weekly routine and taught her ways of moving and healing through movement that had not been possible before. She has also spent the last decade doing Kinrgy, another conscious dance form that works through the four elements: earth, fire, water, and air.

After completing a Conscious and Ecstatic Facilitator training, Elise became passionate about leading her own.

She is a Waldorf Trained Integrative Movement certified teacher and has been teaching in one way or another for over 20 years.

She is so grateful for her Root and Release class at Root. Everyone is welcome and her hopes are that you can connect with yourself and leave a little bit lighter.