Ellen Shapiro

Phone: 222-0003
E-Mail: ellsha@comcast.net
Web site: www.drellenshapiro.com

Ellen Shapiro, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified sex therapist, and certified Kripalu Yoga teacher who has been teaching yoga since 2000. She has an active psychotherapy practice and incorporates mind/body approaches and spiritual awareness into all her work. She has long been interested in positive health and wellness, and the integration of mind/body/spirit through yoga, psychotherapy, bodywork, and energy transformation practices.

She has been facilitating groups and workshops for over 25 years. Ellen began practicing yoga as a teen and returned to the practice seriously around 1989. She was certified as a teacher through Loretta Armer's yoga teacher training in 2000 and began teaching locally in Tallahassee at that time. She completed Kripalu yoga teacher training in 2001. Since 2002 she has taught three to five regular classes a week at the Namasté Yoga  in Tallahassee, as well as teaching workshops and leading retreats locally and nationally. She has studied with various other teachers, and has a strong interest in yoga as a body/mind healing modality. Ellen has studied energy healing with Bart tenBerge and enjoys weaving these elements into both her yoga and psychotherapy practice. Ellen has a strong interest in the healing qualities of the practice of sacred sexuality.  She has trained with Gina Ogden in Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality (ISIS).