Somatic Education

Why 8 Elements?
Our integrative wellness approach offers change and support at multiple levels. All healing happens within complexity – layered  sensing of the body, the soma.  Change takes place when deeper awareness reveals the root source of strength and root cause of imbalance.  We have many ways to access your own inner awareness:   Nia, Yoga, Massage, Integrative Clinic, and I AM THE MEDICINE, our newest program steeped in science, spirit and rhythm.

All of our centers offer you an opportunity to develop a “daily practice”. Yoga joins systemic awareness with breathing practices. Nia offers a dynamic environment of 9 movement arts: tai chi, tae kwon do and aikido (3 martial arts); jazz, Duncan and modern dance (3 dance arts); and Feldenkrais, Alexander and yoga (3 healing arts). The Integrative Clinic offers Traditional Chinese Medicine including acupuncture, individually prescribed Chinese herbs, and food therapy as personal medicine.

Our care for our clients’ health includes the reality of a busy life with multiple commitments to family, friends and work. To support these higher standards and clear personal values, we attune ourselves to pay attention to needs at all levels: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Restore Conscious Living
Therefore we strive to be far more than a “gym” or “club” which centrally attends to body mechanics. The resolve to reach higher and offer you both “daily wellness” and “somatic education” requires an extraordinary, dedicated commitment from our practitioners both as individuals and as a team. It also requires dedicated and spirited clients. This phenomenon of devoted mutual cooperation is indeed a rare privilege, an association that deserves recognition of the courage and discipline essential to reaching elevated ground, together.

To use evocative terms and to precisely clarify the foundations we craft together at Eight Elements adds consciousness and power to our healing-filled lives. We hope that this authentic description of our work helps clients embody the sophisticated relationship in which we are taking part so that it may be communicated to friends, family, spouses and children.

The extraordinary journey is to open new dimensions in the science and art of wellness and inspire you to wholeness. In expanding the perception of what creates health for individuals, families and communities, we invite you to join us and spread the good word!