Elsa Asher is a highly accomplished somatics and ritual practitioner and teacher, specializing in healing developmental and intergenerational trauma. With over 2500 hours of somatics training under her belt, Elsa is also a registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist, life coach, doula, koheneh, and wilderness first responder.

Elsa has completed her Master of Science degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts in Healing and Humanities at Antioch University. She holds a certificate of Jewish Studies from Machon Chana Institute and has served as an Associate Professor of Narrative Medicine at both Columbia University and Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Elsa has presented workshops at various universities, conferences, and organizations and is a 2015-2016 Columbia University Narrative Medicine Fellow and a 2003-2004 Richard Hugo House Writer-in-Residence.

In addition to her impressive academic credentials, Elsa is deeply connected to her lineages of practice. Her current mentors and teachers are shoshana batshemesh jedwab, shaykha fariha fatima al-jerrahi, anna chitty, tzi ish-shalom, and katherine kurs. Elsa's ancestors are Ivri from the Levant/Southwest Asia and North Africa, as well as European colonial settlers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Sapmi, and Germany who lived on unceded Mashee Wampanoag land, Lenape land, Kiskiack land, Tsalagi land, and Oceti Sakowin land. Elsa is queer, non-binary, disabled, and mixed-class.

Elsa is the co-founder of Restorative Somatics Practitioner Training, an organization that focuses on somatics and trauma healing. She has received multiple names over the years as a part of her spiritual practices, and these names signify her journey and unique connection to her various lineages of practice.