Spring Wind Resourcing develops a partnership where collaboration and artistic expression uncover the resources that are most vital and honoring of you. 

Origin of the Name

What does Spring Wind Resourcing mean?

  • Spring is a potent season for me - it has always symbolized new hope and growth after a necessary dormancy.  I love watching the aspens and wildflowers in my yard peek out with new life after a thawing snow, and then bloom into glittering leaves or bursts of color.  The spring can be a renewal of who we are, with vibrancy.  It can also be an acknowledgement of our most tender places that aren’t quite ready to land in fullest expression.  When the warmer temperatures arrive in Colorado, I like to imagine a collective reminder of resilience, where the natural world invites us to delight in the new senses it offers, after being blanketed in snow.

    The concept of “thawing” is also vital in my practice.  It can symbolize how we often rightfully freeze or dissociate within our trauma, and offers the concept that: with a cultivated safe space, unconditional love for our humanness, and fitting encouragement and support to feel seen, we can begin to unwind our blockages and revitalize who we truly are.

  • Wind is a force of nature in its many forms: soft, destructive, unsettling, soothing.  I love a soft breeze that brushes against my limbs, and I revere the power of a strong wind.  With climate change, many communities have experienced much devastation and loss in wildfire, which are at times spread harshly through fierce winds.  Wind is not an element to be taken lightly.

    I want to reclaim wind as movement, not good or bad, but as a shift.  Perhaps of perspective.  An elder friend once told me that the wind carries the souls of our deceased ancestors and their messages with it.  I like to imagine that my ancestors whisper encouragement or reminders of connection to lineage and humanity, and that we each have this support available to us.  

    Wind and its movement also remind me of dancing. Dance is my first love, and the most accessible art form for me to imagine alternative options to a current situation.  In this practice, my mission is to bring in my roots of dancing, and continue to offer and deepen movement-based options for clients who seek embodied perspectives.

  • Resourcing is born from Old French dialect resourdre: “to rise again, to recover.”  
    As I spend time with this word, I find solace in 3 parts:

    1.     The prefix re-, which means again.  In my personal life, I can sense when moments of trauma bring their reminders, and I want to support clients to build their own awareness surrounding the impactful milestones in their lives. My intention is to work with repetition as a means of re-learning ourselves again and again. Within a proactive practice of an embodied and empowered approach, revisiting past moments can become a source in discovering points for growth.

    2.     Source - I love imagining where we came from, how ideas are born, or what is larger than ourselves when we feel stuck.  I believe that each of us has a powerful place, mindset, creative habit, or life-force that can support us to come back to our innate vibrant selves.

    3.     The suffix -ing, which means action.  In my practice, I want our roles to be active together, to feel our ability to turn our thoughts and perspectives into verbs.

    With each part in place, resourcing for me means to actively claim our innate vibrant selves again and again.

May we each find growth, vibrancy, movement, and a variety of options and perspectives that bring forth our true selves.

The Spring Wind Resourcing Method

A structured path that allows for new understanding, processing, healing, and celebration of self through navigating complex life experiences.

  • “Ellen's Spring Wind Method is a unique approach that helped me process things I didn't even know I was holding. The invitation to somatically express myself and unlock repressed emotions has had a profound impact on the way I orient towards anxiety in my life.”

    ~ Molly, 38

  • Utilizing and honoring both my life experience and embodied movement practice, I created a new model that supports energetic change and transformative healing for our bodies, minds, and spiritual selves. This model was born with the support of facilitators Jennie Gershater-Lopez and Mary Marsden, as well as my cohort, through a transformational 9-month Inner Knowing: Body Earth Soul workshop.

    When we experience a life-altering event, whether that is through blissful joy, painful trauma, or even both combined, our bodies and minds are equipped to remember. Often these events can repeat mentally and we feel as if we are back in that moment; our cells give us strong cues through breath, vision, certain ways of moving, and sensations such as muscle tension or tingling. These patterns are imprinted in our bodies, and we can hold onto this energy as a means of survival. We may make unconscious decisions that change the course of our lives based on the emotions and coping mechanisms that our bodies store, which can manifest in a myriad of ways. This could include but is not limited to: stagnancy, inability to make choices, lack of vulnerability, an overcompensating ego, self-doubt, or frustration that is difficult to navigate.

    The Spring Wind Resourcing Method gives us an opportunity to become more aware of these patterns, to grieve them, and to also revitalize more empowered ways to approach memories, as well as possibilities for our future.

    1. First, clients are invited to choose a theme that carries significance in their lives—for instance, concepts like joy and loss, or specificities such as people or events. I encourage clients to intuit this theme through guided meditations, visualizations, and journaling prompts.

    2. Next, I support chronological or emotional organizing around this theme, guiding clients to remember 9 symbolic events or words that have carried potent energy for them.

    3. Clients will then create a visual template of these events with long paper laid in front of them that takes up the width of the room, using words, art, collage, or whatever visual medium supports memories around these events to arise.

    4. Lastly, I guide clients through the creation of movement, speech, or symbolic gestures that encourage a deeper understanding of how these events and themes have potentially become stuck through trauma, need more expression, or desire the attachment-based healing of being witnessed with caring and attuned presence.

  • As clients repeat this sequence, new meaning, thoughts, and inspirations tend to occur. Energetic shifts may move through one’s body in a way that wasn’t previously known. I also guide clients in conversation that supports additional insights to develop, which will help an overall understanding within one’s life deepen, and expand into more compassionate energy toward oneself.