Healer. Bodyworker. Nervous System Guide.
About Eliza Volk
Hi, I’m Eliza. I serve as a guide for those who are ready to feel more grounded in their body and reconnect with a deeper sense of home within themselves.
For over 15 years, I’ve supported people through the sacred work of embodied healing. I use a blend of intuitive bodywork, ThaiVedic healing, and Somatic Experiencing to help clients reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies, release what no longer serves, and reclaim their vitality, clarity, and soul alignment.
Growing up on a small farm just north of New York City, I was the kind of kid who could feel what lived beneath the surface. I was deeply connected to nature, the unseen, and the in-between. I knew when something was off, even if no one said a word. That knowing eventually became my compass.
I studied psychology and environmental studies at the University of Vermont, where I began to notice a common thread: the deep disconnection many people feel from their bodies and emotions was mirrored in our disconnection from the Earth. This fracture lies at the root of both personal and planetary crises and became the heart of my work moving forward.
After college, I worked in outdoor education and noticed how time in nature profoundly regulated children’s nervous systems. I knew then that healing wasn’t just about talking. It was also about returning: to nature, presence, and our body.
The Path of Bodywork and Beyond
In 2011, I moved to Asheville, North Carolina, to deepen my studies in massage therapy. From the beginning, my work felt different. I could intuitively find the exact places where someone’s body held pain. This would not only release physical tension, but also emotional weight, old patterns, and unspoken truths.
One early client had lost sensation on the right side of his body after a stroke seven years prior. During our very first session, feeling began to return. He wept, overcome with awe and gratitude for the sensation returning to his body. In that moment, I knew this work was far more than just massage. Something deeper was at play—something ancient, wise, and deeply loving. The healing that moves through me isn’t mine alone. I am a vessel. This work is a collaboration between the body, the spirit, and a person’s deepest truth.
From there, I traveled the world studying with masters and elders. I trained in ThaiVedic bodywork, which blends Thai massage, Ayurvedic wisdom, and yoga. I assisted and later co-taught ThaiVedic trainings and co-led immersive retreats. I sat in sweat lodges. I traveled with elders, offering healings and women's medicine work in Costa Rica. I learned how energy moves through the body and how to trust the sacred, often unconventional forms that healing can take.
Sometimes that looks like deep tissue massage or a stretch to facilitate a shift.
Sometimes it’s simply sitting with someone in stillness as their body remembers it is safe.
My life experience has led to a fully stocked toolkit, designed to meet people exactly where they are at, providing the necessary medicine they need to create gentle, lasting transformation.
The Power of Nervous System Healing
The most profound turning point in my work came when I began to integrate Somatic Experiencing, a trauma healing and nervous system regulation modality, into my sessions. This work gave language to what I’d always sensed: that healing doesn’t happen through force or catharsis. It happens through becoming aware of emotions, titrating sensations, and allowing the body to complete nervous system responses that remained incomplete.
Many of us are walking around with old, unprocessed emotions—grief that was never witnessed, fear that never felt safe to experience, boundaries that were crossed without repair. Our nervous systems carry these imprints. Until they’re met, metabolized, and gently released, they keep us looping in patterns, reacting instead of consciously responding, surviving instead of thriving.
We don’t heal trauma by reliving it. We heal by slowly building capacity to stay present with what once overwhelmed us. We heal by being met safely, gently, and with reverence. That’s what I offer..This Is the Work
My sessions are a co-creative experience that draws on everything I’ve studied and everything I’ve lived. Whether we’re working on the massage table, the Thai mat, or virtually, the intention is the same: to help you come home to your body, integrate your past, and move forward with clarity and aliveness.
Healing your nervous system is one of the most radical and loving things you can do, not just for yourself, but for the collective. When we stop reacting from unprocessed trauma, we start creating from a clear, empowered place. We become more compassionate partners, parents, leaders, and visionaries. We interrupt the patterns. We open toward joy. We remember what it means to trust life again.
This work is personal, yes. And it’s also sacred activism for the collective.
Let’s Work Together
I’m currently based in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offerings in Aspen, CO, Asheville, NC and New York. I also work with clients virtually around the world. So, if your soul is whispering it’s time, know that I’m here.
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