Bobbie Ellis

In addition to being a Continuum Teacher, authorized by founder, Emilie Conrad, she was the owner and director of Soma Center, Resources for Embodied Living located in Highland Park, NJ from 1998 to 2020. As a somatic yoga and movement therapist, writer, mindfulness meditation teacher and embodiment coach, she has moved many people towards a deeper way of knowing themselves tapping into a wealth of creative wisdom from the intelligence of the body. Donna Farhi and Angela Farmer have been her most influential teachers in the art of somatic yoga. Bobbie has helped thousands of people discover confidence, inner wisdom, emotional well-being and spiritual connection that can only come from the embodied wisdom of the body in practice. She is the founder of Soma Yoga Teacher Trainings, and continuing education programs for yoga teachers since 1998. Bobbie now partners with Karin Weinstein to offer dynamic in-depth teacher training in central NJ. From 1985 to 2016, she had a full bodywork and healing practice in a variety of modalities. She currently has a private yoga and movement therapy practice.The most important depth in her teaching and her writing has come from the unfolding discoveries in her own felt and fluid practices in the quiet of her own experience. It is there that she has learned to trust the body’s wisdom and share from that place of understanding. Bobbie and her husband John recorded an Embodied Meditation CD in 2012. And she has self published 2 poetry books and is completing another book called "101 Ways of Making Meaning in Everyday Life TM" due out in 2025. Ordained as an interfaith minister and minister of ancient ways since 1998, Bobbie creates and performs ceremonies for weddings, baby blessings, memorial services, eulogies and any life passage where a guide is needed to create meaning making. She also facilitates Retreats and women's circles all over the country. To contact Bobbie: [email protected] or call 732-266-1468 For more information please visit: Www.somactr.com and www.meaningfulceremonies.net meaningful ceremonies bio Bobbie has spent more then half her life committed to exploring inquiry, embodied practices and meaningful ways to celebrate and commemorate life's most sacred passages. In 1998 she was ordained as an interfaith minister and a minister if ancient ways. She has helped many people in creating weddings, baby blessings, memorial services, eulogies, and many other ceremonies that have personal meaning, spiritual connection, and presence for the way in which they want to reach for what will be meaningful in their own lives. In creating "Meaningful Ceremonies", Bobbie is committed to offering guidance, creativity and honoring personal style, religious connection, and spiritual environment that fits with anyones taste, beliefs and preferences. With 31 years of experience as a yoga teacher, movement therapist, creative and embodied coach and bodyworker, Bobbie has a depth of skill in working with creating an environment for any one of life's most important passages. Bobbie has been the director of Soma Center - Resources for Embodied Living in Highland Park, NJ for 19 years. She is married and has a grown son.