When I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is breathe and feel.

I’m a sensitive soul.

My heart glows when I'm on my way to beautiful places, when I’m at home on the Pacific Ocean, and when I catch my daughter in a fit of laughter.

My heart dims when life starts to get too serious.

My clients remind me that we’re all so different, unique and beautiful in our own way.

More than anything else, I care about helping them feel good about being themselves, to experience the lusciousness and beauty of who they are (and of life) and to be well-resourced as a result of that.

In my world, living in a beautiful environment is an absolute necessity.

(And dessert...well, that's always a fabulous idea)

I’ve found that living in a big city is totally overrated (even if your environment is Markets, like mine) and suburbia is a definite no for me. 

Now that I’m older, I prefer to be in mountainy, foresty, oceanside towns with lots of soul (but with a city that I can go to nearby at least :)).

Fantasizing about curling up with a cuppa, while you watch the sunset over the ocean from your cozy villa, is totally reasonable.

And striving for a life that allows you to fly to faraway places just to be in the loving energy of friends is an absolute necessity.

At the end of the day, truly loving yourself, enjoying the fruits of life, and having integrity and compassion in your heart is all that really matters.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a person who lived that way.

And, most importantly, someone who inspired others to do that too.

Hi, I'm Korynn.

Mother, force of nature, lover, and

Founder here at The Zen Femme® and A Beautiful Human Design™

About me:

As a mother, I write and teach from home, as well as online and all over the world.

My not-so-guilty pleasures are always having beautiful flowers + tropical plants around, delicious Hawaii-sourced dark chocolate, sitting in cafes with books, baking with pretty much anything cacao or pumpkin, international travel, long visits with family + friends, any body of water, and hiking in the mountains.

I’m an introverted writer, mystic and perpetual student of life. But, for now, I’m done with seeking more. After a long run in a PhD program while simultaneously juggling parenthood, divorce, the death of my best friend, and a pandemic, I’m taking some time to slow down and finally enjoy the fruits of life again.

My writing adventures kind’ve started back in 2006, when I decided to start a blog about untraditional motherhood—called Mamma Mia, Sophia. Then, after that, I started another blog about living a nomadic life, called Nomad Girl. And then, later on, I started this website, so I could share the gifts and lessons that I’d learned through first hand experience with energy medicine, connection with nature and my Native American roots, plant medicine, vipassana meditation, yoga, archetypal psychology, and many other healing modalities. It was all so fun back then. Sharing my adventures brought me so much joy and even helped some others heal as well.

Then, life got pretty serious.

Life took its toll in the form of toxic relationship dynamics (familial, friendship, and romantic), and it led me to losing touch with myself, my body, nature, and Source. The results manifested in so many different ways: perfectionism, procrastination, depression, PMS, financial struggle, incredibly low self-worth, anxiety, and creativity blocks. And, worst of all, I’d completely stopped having fun in life. I was basically a walking trauma response and I struggled to see the beauty that I had once seen in life, no matter where I was or what I was doing.

Oh, but then my life-long best friend passed away from a rare form of brain cancer. This was the pivotal moment that caused me to question what on earth I was doing here. Everything that I’d been doing or entertaining before that seemed to be so completely unimportant. It was time to stop doing those things. It was time to grieve and to only do things that were healing and fulfilling to my spirit. My friend’s death was the heavy rock that fell and finally broke the dam. All of the emotions that I’d been trying to suppress (or just cope with), came pouring out. And then, so did the creativity, inspiration, zest for life, and “I don’t give a damn”-ness that I’d been holding in for years. It all finally came pouring out of me, onto the page, and into my life.

Nothing can stop it now (and I don’t want it to).

The semi-serious stuff: For the past 15+ years, I’ve worked in, been trained in, certified in, and/or received advanced degrees in the following areas and now bring all of them into my work and my life:

• Mind-Body, Integrative, and Functional Medicine (PhD studies) (Also mentored by Dr. Aviva Romm)

• Human Design Reader & Analyst, and registered Gene Keys Guide

• Alumni Guide in the Art of Money Mentorship with Bari Tessler, Financial Therapist. Incorporating financial therapy and somatic practices into work with clients.

• Root Cause Practitioner

• Integrative Somatic Parts Work Practitioner (Internal Family Systems). Trained by Frances Booth LICSW.

• Somatic Attachment Therapist

• Sound Medicine Practitioner (trained by Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary)

• Flower Essence Remedies Practitioner (Bach Centre trained)

• Hypnotherapist

• Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator

• Doctoral Research on Movement Modalities for Wellness (dance, pelvic embodiment, and interoception for healing women’s trauma)

• Pranayama Breathwork Teacher

• Tantra Hatha Yoga Teacher

• IN-Body Training

• Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

• Certified Herbalist for Stress Management

• EFT

• Medical Intuition

• Menstrual Medicine Practitioner and Educator

• Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku) Guide, Ecopsychologist/Ecotherapist (post-grad certification)

• Professor of Sustainability (Environmental and Cultural), Researcher, and Student Advisor

• Environmental Anthropology (post-grad)

• Spiritual Ecology

• Astrocartography

• Archetypal Psychology and Plant Medicine

• Akashic Records

• Integrative and Functional Nutrition Health Coach

• Advisor to International Students and Scholars

• International scholarship selection committee member

• And, of course, a Writer — a true introvert.

I bring all of these flavors together to create a truly unique, abundant, and healing experience to those who work with me personally or take my courses.

The Fun Stuff:

• I was born on the Summer Solstice, on the cusp of Gemini and Cancer, and I’m an Aquarius Moon + Leo Rising. My Chiron + Midheaven are in Taurus. I also have 8 planets in Libra in my Human Design chart.

• I’m a 2/4 Splenic Projector in traditional Human Design and my incarnation cross is the RAX of the Vessel of Love. My dominant circuitry is Sensing. In the Gene Keys, my Life’s Work is Magnetism (Compassion), Culture is Integrity, and my Purpose and Pearl are Ecstasy.

• The (most common) archetypes that I identify with are: the Divine Feminine (Venus), the Dakini, the Creative, the Sage, the Explorer, and the Mother. I sometimes identify with the Wounded Healer (Chiron) but I’m trying to move on from this. All of the archetypes are within us in some way or another, but these are the ones that I see in myself the most. I explore hundreds of other Feminine archetypes in my work.

• In Ayurveda, my True Nature is pitta-kapha, but my main imbalances tend to be vata + pitta. This changes from time to time—we’re always changing.

• I’m an Enneagram 4 and I honestly don’t know that much about it :)

• I’m an INFP - Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling + Perceptive. They say that INFPs have a talent for self-expression + reveal their beauty and their secrets through poetic metaphors. Other INFPs: Princess Diana, Helen Keller, Johnny Depp, William Shakespeare, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING THIS FAR DOWN. I HOPE I’LL GET THE CHANCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU, TOO!

If you’d like to read about how we can work together…

Korynn xx

Official Bio

Korynn Elliott is a student, practitioner and teacher of Mind-Body Medicine and Human Design. She’s been working with holistic medicine modalities for over 15 years and especially feels called to bring more healing energy to Feminine consciousness. This is exemplified by her Feminine Human Design™ teachings, her PhD research on altered states of consciousness, spirituality, dance, and embodiment practices for healing in women, and in her life as a mother and highly-sensitive person.

Her work has been featured on many podcasts as well as various publications. She lives with her partner and daughter.

Find out more at thezenfemme.com or on Instagram @abeautifulhumandesign