Last year, Denise Elysa joined Dr. Sarah Young on the NeuroAlchemy podcast, a show exploring the intersection of science and soul. Partway through the conversation, Denise described her healing not as one dramatic turning point, but as a thousand tiny moments of choosing herself again and again. That phrase became the thread running through the entire episode. The conversation covered …
The Summer Solstice: A Turning Point and Opening to Receive the Medicine of this Season
Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year, arriving in June in the Northern Hemisphere and December in the Southern Hemisphere. The sun reaches its peak, the light is full, and somewhere in that fullness is an invitation most of us walk right past. Denise Elysa, somatic practitioner and intuitive energy healer, has been working with the rhythms of …
Announcing a new virtual sanctuary: EmbodiedSoul with Denise Elysa
For over 5 years it has been a dream of mine to create a way to offer this work sustainably and affordably. My partner always teases me that if we were to win the lottery, he would finally be able to give up working a regular job and that I would continue to do this work for free. Heās probably …
Welcoming 2026 softly…
Welcome to 2026! This first full week of January can bring up a lot for people ā relief, pressure, chaos, ease, slowness, and more. If youāre a parent you may feel relieved that school/daycare is back in, routine is returning. If youāre a parent to a child with additional needs or challenges around school, this week might bring more stress, …
On the Days That Could Break You: Choosing Connection Over Collapse
Last week I had a really hard day. I had hard conversations in multiple areas of life, and received devastating news that will force me to either expand or contract. The type of news that in an instant, gives you the choice: are you going to be a victim (because you can, and it would be an acceptable response to …
A Younger Me, and a Suicide Ideating Boyfriend
Trigger warning: mention of suicidal ideation, mental health intervention and reckless driving. When I was 15 years old, my boyfriend at the time shared with me that sometimes he would drive too fast, running red lights, etc., just to see what would happen. Because there was a part of him that wanted to die.Ā I was deep into therapy and …
My Work is Shifting – Exciting News!
I have so much exciting news to share with you all! Much of it is still in the works so I can only share so much at this time, but read on for what I can tell you. Iām into my practicum for my Somatic Reconditioning Practitionerās Certification as well as finishing up some business classes. Iām really seeing how …
Defeated and Grateful: Holding Duality and Living Wholly
A natural result of committing to this inner work is it tends to expand oneās capacity for duality. To hold multiple things at once. To allow two seemingly opposing things to be true, simultaneously. I am sitting here this evening both devastatingly defeated and overwhelmingly grateful. I am watching as my partner modifies our home yet again to meet our …
Community Support Request š¤
I have a humble (and vulnerable!) community support request. Most of my live events, with the exception of my groups for the patients living with complex chronic diseases out of the internal medicine clinic (BC-CLMF), have been more elaborate in person events. The time has come for me to shift and simplify my offerings, bringing them to you in the comfort of your own home …
Oops! We’re back online – here’s a discount code.
Oops! My Apologiesā¦ My website has been going through some quiet upgrades behind the scenes. These upgrades are still in process but today we discovered that due to some new coding that was just put in, the video feeds throughout the whole site have been down for approx. 48 hours.Ā This means that if you went to utilize any of the …
