About Us
ELIZABETH ANDES-BELL
Elizabeth Andes-Bell, the founder and creator of Energy Yoga, is a Yoga Lifestyle Coach. 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 is co-owner of 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 Secrets of Ageless Living: Building the Diamond Energy Body, The Three Stages of Awakening Your Mastery, The Eight Gates of the Wheel of Manifestation, Food Yoga: How to Love Your Food and Have It Love You Back, and How To Get Over Your Stuff and Become An Agent of Transformation.
As a yoga lifestyle expert, Elizabeth’s blog, Everyday Sacred, is full of tips on making your home and garden a sacred space, simple rituals to make your spiritual connection real and finding perfection in daily challenges. 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, Energy Yoga : A Simple Practice to Change Your Body, Your Thoughts and Your 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 renowned 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 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
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.
“ Elizabeth and Bruce have not
only brought the ancient techniques of yoga up to date and applied them
to our ever-expanding life experience, they have integrated them with the
path of personal growth. Their work teaches us how to live in this ever-changing world
of synchronistic chaos, that we are not only a part of on a large scale, but
also is, on the quantum level, the very ground of our being.” 
“ Elizabeth is a remarkable person, always interested in expanding her awareness of yoga, and integrating this with as many disparate views as possible, so as to teach people the same basic message in the ways they can receive it. She is a brilliant innovator, an accomplished professional and someone who is revolutionizing the world of yoga day by day.” 
“ Elizabeth is a real teacher, healer and yogi who profoundly understands the therapeutic and transformative effects of yoga. She has a true passion to share her gifts and help others heal.”
“ I love working with Elizabeth. Our sessions leave me feeling relaxed and energized. My flexibility, range of motion and even my oxygen levels have increased since I began working with her. I recommend her highly to anyone who wants more vitality and more calm while becoming physically fit and I'm 95!