To better understand the cause of her chronic pain and insomnia, Liz Tenuto majored in psychology. Her studies led her to psychotherapy for healing, like EMDR, and a better understanding of how the nervous system operates.
While working as a professional dancer after college, a suggestion from her teacher put Tenuto on the path to becoming “The Workout Witch.”
“It was actually my ballet teacher who noticed that I was very dissociated when I wasn’t dancing,” Tenuto, 40, tells CNBC Make It.
″[They] kind of nudged me to take a somatics class.”
In 2008, somatic exercises were still pretty new to most people. “For me, it just looked like a bunch of people rolling around in their pajamas on the floor,” Tenuto says. “So I was very skeptical at first, especially with an academic background.”
