ELIZABETH ANDES-BELL 
Elizabeth Andes-Bell, the co-founder and creator of Energy Yoga, is an Awakened Life-Mastery and Yoga Lifestyle Coach who expands the practice of yoga beyond what most people believe it to be. She helps people move beyond limitations, integrate the spiritual and material worlds and excel beyond their expectations. Known for her breadth of knowledge and down to earth teaching style, Elizabeth has the gift for bringing the higher teachings of yoga to life. She is extensively trained in energy healing and psychotherapy as well as yoga. Elizabeth specializes in helping people overcome the personal obstacles that prevent them from living a larger life of purpose and enlightened action. She and her husband co-own two yoga studios and a fitness club in Manhattan. In addition to group and private coaching, Elizabeth teaches yoga classes, workshops, retreats and trains teachers. She also lectures on The Buddhi Experience: Seven Keys to Transforming Your Body and Your Energy to Live the Awakened Life, and The Energy Yoga Makeover: Eight Weeks to Radiant Health and Ageless Living. Elizabeth's blog, energyyogacentral.com/blog, is wide ranging. It contains cutting edge information on the evolution of consciousness and it's arising in the physical and energy bodies, personal stories of transforming our suffering into spiritual teachings that empower and practical tips on living a more peaceful, healthy, sane life. She is also the author of Creating a Whole Life: An Interactive Wellness Workbook; the e-book Three Simple Energy Yoga Secrets to Health, Vitality and Clarity , numerous articles on yoga and awakening and the forthcoming book, Your Energy Matrix: Energy Yoga's Guide to Consciously Creating a Brilliant Life. Elizabeth began her exploration of how energy patterns move through bodies and space as a dancer and choreographer. She and her husband, Bruce, created and performed original works of dance theater for 10 years. She has been a lifelong student of yoga, western and eastern spirituality and movement. She has studied hatha, vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar and Katonah yoga as well as Tai Chi, Continuum, Ideo-kinesis, Body-Mind Centering and Laban-Bartinieff Movement Fundamentals. She is deeply indebted to all her teachers. She is especially grateful for the spiritual teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and Yogi Amrit Desai . Trained as an energy healer at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Elizabeth went on to become a teacher and, with her husband, co- founded the school's Department of Creative Arts. They developed and taught a 6 year curriculum exploring the relationship of healing and creativity. In addition, they created over 20 full-evening group healing rituals. These theatrical, sacred ceremonies incorporated 5 shamans from different disciplines and guided as many as 400 participants through the events. Elizabeth and Bruce continue their exploration of conscious evolution, social artistry and sacred ceremony as members of Jean Houston's Advanced Mystery School. Elizabeth has also worked as a lifestyle and wellness consultant for corporations such as Mead Johnson, Interactive marketing Ventures and the General Nutrition Center (for whom she helped design ALIVE! , a prototype store for integrative wellness). She also worked as a holistic lifestyle coach with the Hackensack Medical Center's first integrative Cardiac Disease Reversal Program. Bruce and Elizabeth live in Piermont, Rockland County, NY. They are the proud parents of two children: Daeira 19 and Schuyler 14, 3 dogs Barnum, Bailey and Lucy and 1 amazing cat, Izzy.
Bruce Bell has spent his life exploring his natural gift: energy and it's movement through the body. He is the creator of Cellular Awareness, a free-form method of yoga that is driven by the natural flow of life force energy in the body. In this technique, the body becomes an access point for awakening evolutionary consciousness and a nesting area for grounding ourselves to function at higher levels. For the last sixteen years, he has played provider. He founded, owned and managed yoga centers and a fitness club on Manhattan's upper west side. He currently explores the yoga of day trading the futures market. An accomplished yogi, he began his movement career as an athlete, playing sports as a child and football for Dartmouth College. After graduation, he spent ten years dancing and choreographing in Los Angeles and New York. He performed with with Charles Moulton and worked briefly with Bill T. Jones and Pilobolus, replacing an injured dancer, but found he was called to explore how energy gives rise to movement. He and Elizabeth, who have been married for 30 years, spent years dancing, choreographing and performing as Bruce and Andes Bell Dance. Spiritual and esoteric studies, human potential and explorations in consciousness have always run a parallel track to his passion for dancing. He was a Religion major in college. He is a deeply influenced by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Walter Russell, Jean Houston, Valerie Hunt and Emilie Conrad. Bruce is a graduate of the Center for Intentional Living and Barbara Brennan School of Healing. He was the founding head of the school's Department of Creative Arts which helped people release blocks to their natural expression and explored the relationship of art, healing and a deep connection to the mystical. He led the school in discovering their natural creativity as it was expressed in fine art, performance and ceremony. Bruce is an experienced speaker, presenter and workshop leader with a mastery in reading energy, holding space, delivering a teaching and deftly guiding people into profound experiences. He is an experienced facilitator for depth processes. Bruce co-led large group processes called Healing Vessels and was a senior case presentation leader at the school. Bruce has also had a private energy healing practice for over 20 years.
“Man is shut up at present in his surface individual consciousness.
Yoga can open in him a consciousness which becomes one with the world,
as a universal Being with universal Mind, Power and Life. He can live
in conscious relationship with these things and have cosmic consciousness.”
““What the new consciousness wants: no more divsions. Being able to understand the extreme spiritual nature as well as the extreme material nature, and to find their meeting point, where...they become a real force.”
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““Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness amounting to ecstasy, is the normal conditioning of the genius mind. Any lack of joyousness develops body-damaging toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.”
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““Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”
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““You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
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““We have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, and in a very real sense, the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.”
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““Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.”
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