Élodie P. Goodman
Scholar | Storyteller | Kintsugi Yogini
Where breath becomes gold, and knowledge is carried with care.
Élodie P. Goodman is a scholar, educator, and storyteller committed to the ethical stewardship of sovereign knowledge systems. Her work spans yoga, research, and ceremony, interwoven by a single golden thread: reverence for what is broken, and the wisdom held in every fracture.
Her path began in 2015 with yoga as a practice to support distance running and mental clarity. But over time, it deepened, becoming not just movement, but memory. Not just breath, but a way of knowing. Through years spent studying with her breath, moving with memory, and listening to what could not be said aloud, Élodie came upon Kintsugi: the quiet, golden art of tending to what has broken, not to hide it, but to make it shine. This tradition mirrored her own journey and philosophies, where healing is not a return to perfection, but a ritual of transformation.
Élodie’s yoga, is rooted in the spirit of mushin (mind without mind) and shaped by her academic work in breath-based epistemologies, ancestral memory, and relational accountability. As both a ceremonial practice and a site of embodied knowledge, Kintsugi Yogini invites you to move from rupture toward renewal, guided by grace, rhythm, and breath.
In Her Classes, You’ll Encounter:
🜂 Tantra Hatha Yoga
Move beyond posture into the pulse beneath form. Élodie guides students to awaken subtle energy and deepen their relationship with self and spirit.
🜄 Ashtanga-Inspired Flow
Draw from lineage, breath, and the discipline of tradition. Here, movement becomes mantra and balance becomes a lived prayer.
🜁 Reconnection to Source
More than a class, Kintsugi Yoga is a sacred return. A place to mend, to remember, and to breathe your way back into wholeness.
A Life in Service to Story and Sovereignty
In parallel with her movement practice, Élodie’s academic work explores the intersections of Indigenous and diasporic knowledge traditions. She researches ceremonial governance, breath as epistemology, diasporic testimony, and the living continuities of ancestral memory. Her approach centers relational accountability and the labor of equity in institutional spaces, not as performance, but as sacred responsibility.
For Élodie, research is not extraction. It is reverence. It is ceremony. It is truth-telling as care.
Come As You Are
Whether on the mat or the page, Élodie holds space for transformation. She invites you to breathe into your brokenness, honor your story, and let the golden seams of healing guide you home.