About Dr Elizabeth Swallow

Dr. Elizabeth Swallow believes in treating the whole person with compassion, curiosity, and skill. Elizabeth enjoys facilitating treatments that help individuals achieve homeostasis effectively and in an educational manner. Elizabeth has received extensive training in Western and Eastern bodywork modalities, craniosacral therapy, and various emotional liberation techniques. Dr. Elizabeth draws from a unique toolbox when creating treatment plans. 

She is a graduate of Pacific College of Health and Sciences, holding a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, as well as a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her somatic education encompasses both Western and Eastern modalities, with a focus on the energetic blueprint, anatomical structural system, and practical communication skills, with the intention of harmonizing the body/mind/spirit. She is a UCSD alumna holding two degrees in Art History and Cultural Anthropology, with an emphasis on visceral movement practice/performance and ritual.  

Dr. Elizabeth was drawn to somatic modalities as a way to understand the mechanics of the body; to learn how to move efficiently as a professional dancer/performer/teacher; and to learn how to regulate emotions. The professions organically influence one another, fueling her passion for research and making her treatments dynamic and socially inclusive.

My movement research includes Biodynamic Craniosacral Movement (working with pain), authentic movement, and bone marrow healing. Biodynamic Craniosacral Movement was inspired by the particular ritual the Biodynamic Craniosacral practitioner uses to prepare for a treatment. This is a very relaxing experience that can deepen the receiver’s body awareness of health and movement. Authentic Movement is an expressive, improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants to engage in a type of free association through the body. Mary Starks Whitehouse started it in the 1950s as a “movement in depth” practice. 

Elizabeth firmly believes in offering a systematic way for patients to learn how to integrate the health benefits achieved through treatments in a functional way. When the energetic pattern shifts in the body, the mind follows organically. For these shifts to become sustainable, the body/mind requires a simple daily practice to ground the changes and foster healthy habits that can become characteristic traits.