client experiences

Nathalie


These sessions are absolutely incredible. Thanks to Elaine’s very accurate and precise guidance, I feel supported and empowered to make the right movements and move forward with her toward inner wellbeing. My body is deeply relaxed right after our sessions, a great inner peace. Her accompaniment is truly “‘tailor-made” and that’s extremely valuable.

I’ve experienced profound changes since we began our work together. I’m grateful for her quality of presence, her gentleness, and her attention. I recommend Elaine’s sessions if you’re looking to release your inner blockages (body and mind). This method is really very powerful.

Irwin


It is impossible to describe how grateful I am for my online somatic sessions with Elaine. The experience of working together in this way is a natural extension of our in-person sessions.

Elaine has a unique ability to hold space and have presence while guiding and teaching breath, attention, and body work. These sessions empower me to have agency in utilizing my own hands and attention to move through somatic experiences.

Our last session was incredibly personal and healing: Elaine and I connected during sunrise while I was in Canada, outdoors under the beautiful blue skies of my hometown. The ability to fully immerse in meaningful spaces adds to the richness of Elaine’s virtual sessions, and serves as a great complement to time together in person.

Francis


Elaine was recommended to me by a long-time friend who had consulted with her after a bad fall and very rapidly saw great improvements.

I was suffering terrible lower back and hip pain. MRIs had revealed left hip infringement, slight left hip arthritis and a small hernia in two lower back disks. Within a few minutes, Elaine went right into the core of the pain, deep into my hip joint… a place very hard to get to, let alone identify as the eye of the maelstrom. I felt vulnerable and very hungry right after the session…

One session alone with Elaine was enough to experience great relief in my hip and lower back. I keep working with her when I am in Paris and find the time in the midst of busy business trips. I also consult with another Grinberg therapist in LA. I keep seeing results with my hip/lower back pain, which is now overall much less intense. It is still not fully remedied as I keep traveling a lot and do not exercise enough to maintain the progress gained through my sessions. However the process was definitely curative to me and opened me up to new levels of emotional freedom and awareness.

Elaine is a great professional and very knowledgeable in her field. I regularly and wholeheartedly recommend her to my friends and clients. She brings a wealth of experience, sensitivity, and discernment to this great method.

Thank you very much Elaine for your gentle yet quite astute work and skills!

Court


Online sessions with Elaine have been a revelation in understanding the intelligence of my body in relationship to the ups and downs of life. During these sessions, Elaine guides me in embodied ways of working with my emotions to release what’s not serving me and move forward with clarified vision.

The entire session feels like a ceremony of sorts – allowing deeper truths to surface, be fully experienced, and integrated back into the bigger picture of self. I’m so grateful!  

Matt


We often think of injury rehab and physical therapy from the lens of gaining back strength through corrective exercise. After a year of healing a shattered ankle through traditional methods, it took just one session with Elaine to reduce my inflammation and pain, and restore mobility more than anything I had put into practice before. Her ability to guide energy through the body, and her deep knowledge of scar tissue, has made an ever lasting positive impact on my injury.

I can’t recommend enough incorporating Elaine’s knowledge into any physical rehab practice. In-person sessions with her now feel absolutely essential. Her work is a gift.

Frances


I contacted Elaine after reading a piece in her newsletter about feeling “stuck.” That was exactly where I was, mentally and physically. I was able to organise what turned out to be three online sessions spread over six weeks. These were so helpful, supporting me to look at specific events and concerns which were literally weighing me down.

The sessions involved talking, breathing exercises and body work. All of these were effective despite being online – Elaine moved through the sessions grounding me in the space where I was sitting and talking through ways in which I could use physical sensations to understand emotional reactions.

I am happily ‘unstuck’ now, have useful tools to use as needed, and really appreciate the sessions with Elaine. 

Nadine


I came to the Grinberg Method because of a hand-gliding accident, which led to neck and upper back pain.

Within a few sessions, the pain was entirely relieved (and never came back). It was remarkable and such a relief. I had tried several other forms of physical therapy and acupuncture before, for months, but none had helped significantly, and none had resolved the issues. The Grinberg sessions were unique in their efficiency, depth, intensity, multi-dimensional approach and empowerment. Indeed, not only did they help me heal in ways that no other therapy had, but I also very much appreciated their underlying philosophy: the idea was not to “go and see someone who would heal me,” but that it would be a “joint journeying” — of course the practitioner works directly on the body and so on and helps the healing process during the session; but perhaps a deeper and more powerful aspect of the method is the fact that with awakened and raised awareness, one stops blocking the body in its natural healing process, and one can actively participate in it (through breathing for instance). So the healing gets triggered and enabled by the one-on-one work, and then unfolds in between sessions.

Besides the physical healing process, the sessions led to much deeper and more long-term, transformative insights. They helped me become aware of deep-seated patterns and behaviors which were not beneficial to me. And over time, the sessions have been helping me to transform them.

The sessions were at times physically painful as deep and ancient knots were being released. But it was so worth it.

I would recommend these sessions to anyone with chronic or non-chronic pain, but also to people engaged on a path of self-understanding, self-awareness, and transformation, as I have found it to be a wonderful and helpful tool.

The sessions with Elaine Konopka in Paris were absolutely wonderful. I appreciated enormously Elaine’s professionalism, intuition, depth of focus and efficiency of work, listening capabilities (on many levels), kindness and empathy. She has a beautiful presence and attention. The sessions with her were significantly helpful, on many dimensions. Very, very highly recommended!!

Maël


My first few sessions with Elaine brought to light several deep-seated muscular tensions. My goal in continuing was to undo these tensions. The goal was more or less achieved, depending on the body part, and the work continues to affect me today.

This method also brought its share of unexpected benefits: I breathe more fully, have much more energy than before, and can now identify my needlessly tense postures. I gained a lot of self-confidence, and the ability to handle situations differently.

Margaux


I started sessions with Elaine because I needed to work on myself but I didn’t want to go see a psychologist. I needed to understand myself better and move forward in my life. I attained this goal thanks to constant work.

Thanks to this process, I noticed that when my body was more relaxed, I was too. It also allowed me to be more open with other people. The sessions were varied and very interesting because in each one I learned something new about myself.

I recommend this method because it allowed me to make tremendous progress, and taught me a lot.

Christine


I began my process to prepare myself – physically and mentally – for surgery to repair the rotator cuff of my right arm. The damage to my shoulder was most likely stress related, and this seemed a good way to get to the root of things – and to help prevent further damage.

The sessions were most helpful in preparing me for the surgery. We also did one in-hospital session immediately following the surgery, which was fantastic. The impact on my body was that I was in much better shape to heal and move forward. This, of course, had a very positive impact on helping me make it through the recovery period with a positive focus. After the surgery, I did several sessions which were also very effective in helping me to address well seated issues of tension.

Elaine is an excellent practitioner and I very much appreciate the personal and professional attention I have received from her.