experience embodied wellness

Celeste brings over 22 years of specialized Somatic Wellness Care to the Santa Ynez Valley, including past stints at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara Spa; San Ysidro Ranch; Maui, Hawaii; Montecito; and Laguna Beach. 

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Our offerings help clients feel more at home in their bodies and minds.  Effects that ripple into every aspect of life, be it personal, professional, or both. 

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Welcome to a greater experience of ease, calm, clarity, and bliss.

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Celeste’s specialty is helping her clients discover and ignite their innate inner strengths and unique,  authentic truths.  Her signature creative style is both caring and playful, holding a safe space for personal exploration and expansion.

 

We offer 1:1 support in:

Holistic Health Coaching + Somatic Mentoring

GYROTONIC® Method

GYROKINESIS® Method

Massage & Bodywork

 

All services are informed by and often include trauma-informed somatic movement therapy modalities and various yogic practices and philosophies. 

 

Valley Be Well originally opened as a Pandemic Pop-Up and continues to provide permanent services in Los Alamos, CA, serving the greater SYV and Santa Barbara County.

 

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CERTIFICATIONS & SPECIALIZED TRAINING

 

GYROTONIC® METHOD

• Gyrotonic Level 1 Trainer

• Gryotonic Level 1 Pre-Trainer (Teacher Trainer)

• Gyrotoinc Pre-Training

• Gyrotonic Apprentice

• Gyrotonic Foundation

• Gyrotonic Pre-Trainer Update

• Gyrotonic Level 1 Update

• Gyrotonic Level 2 Pre-Training Program 1

• Gyrotonic Level 2 Pre-Training Program 2

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GYROTONIC® SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT

• ARCHWAY Specialized Equipment Trainer

• LEG EXTENSION UNIT Specialized Equipment Trainer

• JUMPING STRETCHING BOARD Specialized Equipment Trainer

 

GYROKINESIS® METHOD

• Gyrokinesis Level 1 Trainer

• Gyrokinesis Level 2 

• Rejuvenation

• Gyrokinesis Pre-Training

• Gyrokinesis Apprentice

• Gyrokinesis Foundation

• Gyrokinesis Essentials

• Gyrokinesis Breathing Intensive

 

YOGA

• Yoga Narada Apprentice, Hilary Cartwright

• Anusara Yoga Immersion Level 1

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH 

• Certified Holistic Health Coach in Integrative Nutrition, IIN

 

SOMATIC MOVEMENT THERAPY

• Certified Somatic Movement Educator (2005)

• DE-SMTT, Dynamic Embodiment™, tutelage under Dr. Martha Hart Eddy

• Advanced Studies, (including Laban-Bartenieff, Body-Mind-Centering, Early Childhood Applications) 

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TRAUMA-INFORMED 

• Certificate in Somatic Psychology,  Antioch University 

• Certificate in Somatic Attachment Theory

• Certificate in Polyvagal Applications for Therapeutic Yoga Levels 1 & 2, 

• Advanced Masterclass on the Treatment of Trauma, (2020) National Institute of Cognitive Behavioral Medicine

• Enter The Vagus- Polyvagal Theory for Pilates and Movement Instructors 

• Crisis Intervention Training (California State Certified Training),  Standing Together To End Sexual Assault

 

MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION

• Empirical Wisdom Summer Institute, Costa Rica 

 

MASSAGE & BODYWORK (2001)

• Swedish

• Deep Tissue

• Reflexology

• Myofascial Release

• Trigger Point Therapy

• Hot Stone

• Prenatal

• Acupressure

• Touching for AIDS

• Cranial Sacral

• Visceral Lymphatic Drainage

• Chi Ne Tsang

• Polarity Therapy

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RELEVANT EDUCATION

Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute

GYROTONIC® International 

Center For Kinesthetic Studies

Moving On Center- School for Participatory Arts & Somatic Research

American Dance Therapy Association Conference

Institute For Integrative Nutrition

The Embody Lab

National Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Medicine

Antioch University

Earth Dance

Bennington College

 

Intensive studies & trainings have taken place across the USA, Costa Rica, Germany &  Indonesia.

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NOTABLE TEACHERS & MENTORS

Dr. Martha Hart Eddy (DE-SMTT)

John Harris (Bodywork)

Dr. Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory)

Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Trauma-Informed)

Dr. Arielle Schwartz (Polyvagal Theory for Therapeutic Yoga)

Juliu Horvath (Gyrotonic & Gyrokinesis Method Founder)

Hilary Cartwright (Yoga Narada Founder + Gyrotonic & Yoga For Dancers Co-Founder)

and numerous dance teachers. . . .

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PERSONAL TIDBITS

Celeste grew up dancing, performing, creating art, living in teepees, voraciously reading, and gracing stages while decked out in sparkles and sequins.  Her mornings are spent meditating on the beauty of the world,  sitting in the garden with chamomile tea, accompanied by four feisty chickens, and two adorable felines. (Who enjoy snuggling up together on her lap,  in a friendly pile of fur and feathers, all at once.)