Yoga Biography
Elissa Rosch RN, RYT, CD, LCCE is a holistic registered nurse, a certified Integrative Yoga Therapy teacher, and a registered Yoga Alliance teacher. She has completed advanced training in Restorative Yoga with Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal, and advanced training in Yoga for Stress Management and Healing with Joseph Lepage. Elissa has completed Yoga for Pregnancy with Janice Clarfield and studied with David Frawley and Sandra Summerfield Kozak in the area of Yoga and Ayurveda. She has also had the privilege to study with other wonderful teachers including Valerie Kit Love, Nischala Joy Devi, Susan Winter Ward, Gary Kraftsow, and Yoganand.
Elissa's teaching is enriched by her love of movement from many years of modern and jazz dance training and her over 25 years of yoga practice. Elissa's work with imagery and therapuetic suggestion is enhanced and deepened by her training in Eriksonian hypnotherapy. Having learned Therapeutic Touch from its founders, Dolores Kreiger and Dora Kuntz, a well developed awareness of energy resonates throughout her work. Elissa's study of clinical aromatherapy with Jane Buckle has enabled her to add essential oils to her range of healing tools.
As a nurse with many years of experience in Maternal-Child Health, an active practice as a doula and childbirth educator, Elissa brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her specialty classes of Prenatal and Mother/Baby Yoga.