Hello, I’m Elliott the lead teacher of Kundalini Bodywork.
While I’m mostly running trainings I have occasional space for in-person and online clients. If you would like to work with me please click this link and let me know what you would like to work on?
I have learned, been inspired by, and am grateful to many people but it’s difficult to pinpoint a single point of reference, main teacher, book or modality.
I found this work primarily through the need to heal myself and by treating my body as a mystery school. The process of purifying my body, looking at my shadow, and forgiving myself and others taught me a lot until I developed a greater sense of knowingness and non-separation that I incorporate into my work.
Many people ask who my teacher was or where I learnt this work.
My education and training beyond life itself is detailed below. It is a long account and I do not expect many people to read it all.
If you do feel called to work with me, just click the link above and I’ll send you access to my calendar.
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History:
After reading my first book on Tantra at 18 years old and then practicing with my girlfriend at the time I moved to the Findhorn Foundation, a spiritual education centre and ecovillage with a large focus on Buddhism, where I worked through most of my twenties. During this time I taught meditation to guests (and was impacted by a Barbara Brennan healer Tjitze de Jong) and supported the facilitation of both emotional and organisational processes, ending my time in the Foundation working in S&PD (‘Spiritual & Personal Development’ which is their equivalent to Human Resource Management) department. During this time I was more politically and ecologically motivated than spiritual but the spiritual dimension of life was very present and integrated into daily living.
Having the realisation (which in part came from reading non-dual texts over several years) that life is in fact an illusion: a multi-dimensional illusion where time is circular (not linear) and we are all playing out our karma, and that “I” (my ego) could not change very much at all, I left the foundation to sit in a 10 day Vipassana meditation course and then traveled to India to study tantric yoga.
After two days I decided the guru was not for me, and moved to a different school where I learned hatha yoga, massage, marma points and basic Ayurvedic medicine. I was the only tourist in the school as it was full of locals training to work in health spa’s and cruise ships. I stayed there for a few months. This school in Kerala no longer exists.
In 2012, I moved to a plant-based diet and continued my twice daily meditation practice with lots of yoga and different sports throughout the week.
The more I purified my body the darker my thoughts became. Through this time of purification, feeling lots of emotional and sexual energy, my body started to activate itself, shaking and moving into a form of sexual yoga.
I found a video of someone receiving a similar practice. I signed up for their weekend tantric massage course in London which was interesting but I was told they could only teach me massage and yoga and not energy work. That this energy just comes naturally. I tried to sign up to their yoga training but could not afford it at the time (in the last few years they started teaching tantric remote energy healing while also receiving various allegations of being a sex cult and after talking with a friend who left their school I decided not to promote them, although grateful for my personal experience in that weekend).
Later I had a private session with the Tantric Shaman, Elaine Young, which was a life changing experience. I had around 5 sessions over 6 months both in person and online before attending her energy orgasm weekend workshop. From this training, I created a small practice group with other participants. One weekend a month we would meet as friends to practice energetic work.
I studied and read about reiki, pranic, vortex and similar modalities (for vortex healing I can only recommend vortexhealing.org while not everyone will resonate with this school, you’ll know it’s for you when it is) but rarely moved from basic and intro level courses, as I was yet to make much money beyond food and rent as aiming to become a socially responsible entrepreneur in the fields of renewable energy, water purification and plant based nutrition.
I read as much as I could about the science of breath, our nervous system, somatic healing and the concept of de-armouring which at the time I understood to be a mix of shiatsu, breathwork and tantric massage.
As our practice group grow, in-person clients emerged. I then completed the ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) level 1 training (which I can not recommend to everyone but for some people it is possible to find sexual liberation in such western neo-tantra trainings).
After this I did a two day introduction training with Elaine’s teacher Andrew Barnes on orgasmic energy work which was similar to her training and again I’m grateful for what I learned, but can not say anything more about his other trainings and practices.
I find western neo-tantra to be about sexual and emotional liberation and about bringing people into their hearts. Both worthy endeavours that I support but not what I understand spirituality, tantra and kundalini to be about.
My spiritual training beyond living in a spiritual community for 6 years (where I mostly gardened and led emotionally based self-development courses) was very limited, yet I received a lot from self practice and meditations, and the more I practiced neo-tantra the more these insights increased. So in an indirect way neo-tantra felt very related to my spiritual growth as much as I’d feel resistance towards it.
Then I went to Thailand for a ten day training in Tao Tantric arts at Man Tak Chia’s centre, Tao gardens. The trainer was an Indian man who taught emotional detox and tantric massage. I later learnt, like many male tantra teachers he had multiple sex scandals, so again I do not promote his school, while I made some lasting friendships through it.
I took the knowledge from these short courses, and from articles and books that I partially read (although I often feel a bodily aversion when reading too much knowledge form others. It is like this chapter is meant for me now, and not the rest. This means it often takes me time to read books such as Kundalini Tantra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Tantra Illuminated by Christopher Wallis, aka Hareesh, which I found more recently and am still reading but happy to recommend.
Generally and randomly I will pick books up after realisations, and the book then confirms and helps to deepen the new understanding while inspiring new thoughts and concepts. Learning to live with and manage a very active energetic body means information form heightened states of awareness often comes in about the soul and practices to develop and support our nervous system, breath, body and emotions. I find the process of proving these to be correct with science and direct experience before using them with clients to be an important one.
My book ‘The Inner Marriage, A Guide for Masculine & Feminine Polarity Work’ was inspired by teachers in ISTA as well my interest in non-dual texts. One day I started channeling a book that looks at polarity from a non-dual perspective to create greater emotional health and wealth. I am glad that I listened to the voice that said “write all of this down, this is important”.
Through a client and friend I was invited to work in Switzerland. The Swiss did not relate my work to primarily being of a sexual nature as it was in England, although I facilitated many yoni de-armouring sessions as part of my work (and far less lingham de-armourings), which for many is a very important part of the healing process, especially to recover from sexual abuse and trauma. The work in Switzerland was seen as it truly is, a holistic path to personal & spiritual development.
In the end of 2017 Kundalini Bodywork was born in Zürich, Switzerland and over the years the practice grew and developed through working with clients into what it is today:
An international school, and community of practitioners with a physical training centre currently being built in Bali.
Although I love teaching this work, I find it helpful to often come back to the roots of the work which is 1-on-1 therapy for approximately 6 sessions.
When people ask what the lineage of this work is, or who my teachers were, I can only say that Kundalini Bodywork is a community of practitioners where we acknowledge that we are all divine and learn from each other, channeling and grounding in higher dimensional energies to raise consciousness and make our body divine.
It is impossible to mention all the people who have influenced me and who I am grateful to as there are so many. I also feel it’s important to notice that many prominent influences towards my work I can not recommend while wanting to be honest about the reasons why.
If you are choosing this work as your main therapy practice, I can say that you are making a good choice. However it is important to find the right therapist or practitioner who fits you personally. If you feel it is me, I encourage you to click the link at the top of this page.
With loving kindness
Elliott Saxby
