Some people find their way to healing work through study. Elana found hers through living it.

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A Hudson Valley native and Putnam Valley resident, Elana has been practicing yoga for over 20 years — across styles, traditions, and teachers. But it was life itself that shaped her most. A traumatic back injury in 2017. Premature twins born at the start of a global pandemic in 2020. Long Covid that kept her bedridden for a year and a half, stripped away her ability to return to the classroom, and quietly redirected everything — toward the healing work that had sustained her, and toward sharing it with others.

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In search of healing, she traveled to Thailand, Israel, and throughout the Northeast, sitting with healers and diving deep into practices that ranged from Vinyasa, Kundalini, Yin, and Restorative Yoga to Buddhism, Kabbalah, the Sutras of Patanjali, and Judaism. She found pieces of herself in each. But the real turning point came when she stopped looking outward — and turned within.

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That shift is at the center of everything she now offers.

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Through Healing Yoga With Elana, she works privately with individuals and families, leads classes, and facilitates workshops and retreats for a wide range of organizations and communities. Her practice draws on breathwork, meditation, visualization, sound healing, and intuitive energy work — integrated tools that meet each person exactly where they are. Rooted in self-inquiry and grounded in deep acceptance, she opens the door and walks alongside every step of the way.

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Elana brings nearly 20 years of experience as an educator, school leader, and coach into her work with families — helping parents and children co-regulate, reconnect, and find their way back to one another. As a mother of twins, she understands the real complexity of family dynamics, and creates a space where every personality feels safe, seen, and met with patience.

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She is also deeply committed to making these tools accessible beyond the studio — offering yoga and mindfulness to children, those with disabilities, and individuals in transitional housing. She believes healing belongs to everyone.

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One of the most powerful ways to repair the world is to begin with yourself — to restore the body, quiet the mind, and reconnect with the truth that lives within. This is a daily practice. Ever changing, like you. Just as each moment is brand new, so renews the opportunity to heal.

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I am grateful to be here — sharing this journey with all who will join me, toward the healing that already resides within.