Consultant, speaker, writer and teacher, Ellen is the President of Custom Calm, LLC.    Ellen skillfully creates highly effective  programs and speaking topics addressing the common issues of stress, pain, and illness inherent  in  the workplace,  groups and organizations.

After owning a successful yoga studio and working as the Executive Director of Master Yoga Foundation, she was aware of the variety of stress management programs offered.  With her understanding that no two companies or individuals are alike, she saw a need for programs that would be personalized with both body and mind techniques.

This approach makes her work unique. She couples her own life experience, her extensive training and work experience with her warmth and humor when creating customized programs that are simple, realistic and empowering. This was the evolution of Custom Calm.

Currently, she designs and teaches programs at the Cancer Support Community at Northside Hospital- www.cscatlanta.org and the Weinstein Center in Georgia. Additionally, Ellen consults with private clients and corporate groups to provide them with simple stress relief and pain management techniques and perspectives that can be used on the spot.

Ellen he has presented at the Nurses Oncology Symposium and the Cancer Survivors’ Network and has also been a regular contributor to the Atlanta Jewish Times.

Ellen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University. Her additional professional trainings include:

• Yoga for Awareness for Cancer Professional Training at Duke University
• Mindfully-Based Stress Reduction Professional Training with Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Yoga for Depression
• Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Training  E-RYT500 featuring Yoga Therapy, Yoga for Back Pain, Gentle Yoga, Neck & Shoulders, Pregnancy Yoga:

• Meditation Teacher Training,
• Philosophy Discussion Group Leader Certification
• Self – Inquiry Practitioner Training

What makes Ellen’s work unique is that her life is an example of the effectiveness of  the work she teaches.   From an early age, she experienced scoliosis, chronic neck, back, shoulder, jaw pain.  Years later, after the birth of her second child, she developed Lupus and that propelled her to the extensive trainings that have since put her Lupus in remission and she feels great inside and out.