It all started when my mom was battling terminal cancer.

My name is Elle and I have a story to share with you.

I have always been a free spirit-challenging the status quo and creating a life that was outside the lines of “normal.” In my 20’s and early 30’s, I traveled and lived all over the world and felt like I was living an incredible life. And I was, but there was always an undertone of rebellion. To reach new shores and to dive into an unconventional way of living.

Fast forward and I’m thirty-four years old. I’ve lived in Thailand, Spain and currently finishing up my fifth year in South Africa. I thought I had my life together, everything figured out. And then I received a phone call that turned my entire life upside down. My mom had been diagnosed with Glioblastoma-a rare and aggressive brain cancer. So, I packed up my life into five suitcases, and moved back home to Colorado. Little did I know that this was, in fact, a divine diversion.

It was in deep grief when my heart cracked open and I truly met myself.

And over the next fourteen months, while the woman who gave me life was coming to the end of hers, I was faced with the hardest conversations and the most unfathomable decisions to date.

It was in this dark, painful chapter of my life that my grief cracked something open in me. And in that raw space, breath found me. It gave me something to hold onto—and something to let go of. It was the first time I truly met myself beneath the stories, the masks, the striving for approval and belonging.

And after my mom passed from this Earth, breathwork didn’t just help me survive this excrutiating loss—it brought me home.

To my body. To my truth. To stillness and courage I didn’t know I had.

It awakened a level of self-awareness and fierce devotion inside my soul that has changed every part of my life. Since then, it has become my sacred tool—my anchor, my compass, my teacher.

I believe breathwork has the power to heal individuals and transform the collective. Because when we remember how to breathe fully, we remember how to live fully. To feel. To trust. To come back to who we truly are.

And I’m here to serve you and help guide you back to yourself through this sacred practice. To shed old patterns, pull back the layers of conditioning and to remember your true, fierce nature.

And so, the Courageous Life was born.