Hi! I’m Helen Hagy.

Years ago, I suddenly developed the symptoms of a chronic health issue that interrupted my life and how I had been choosing to live it. I had to go on an elimination diet, destroy my lifelong habit of pleasing others, work through layers of unhealed past trauma, and deal with the medical anxiety and fear that gripped me. 

It was like the universe had handed me one massive pattern interrupt to the life I had been living. And I had to truly, actually (not fake it, not halfway go at it) slow everything down… live differently… and I had to learn how to listen to and befriend my body. 

I learned something else during that season of my life that shifted everything for me: the true power of the connection between my mind and my body. To be more precise, I learned the incredible power of my mind to directly influence my body (and vice versa). 

Some time later, I saw an amazing hypnotist and the first thing she helped me with was my medical anxiety. I suppose it’s obvious, but hypnosis helped me a lot. It flabbergasted and amazed me, to be quite honest. 

And so I started training as a clinical hypnotist so that I could support others in communicating with their unconscious mind to make meaningful changes and feel a lot better, too. And now here I am: a certified hypnotist x2, loving how I get to help people!

Yoga has been an anchor for me since my 20s when I walked into my first kundalini yoga class during grad school. I was going through a rough time, and regularly attending kundalini classes at a local studio helped rapidly transform my inner life. I fell in love with how kundalini yoga completely shifted my energy and showed me what’s possible. 

A few years later I became a certified yoga teacher. Yoga has been transformative for me on so many levels, and it simply makes me a better human than I would be without it. I love sharing it with others! 

The more I studied (and continue to study) integrative hypnosis and yoga, the more I saw them sharing similarities and complementing each other. I’m passionate about blending yoga and hypnosis because they are two of the most extraordinary practices I’ve encountered for personal transformation, and for living life with more freedom, clarity, and joy. Combined, I believe the benefits of yoga and hypnosis only multiply, and that’s why I created Embodied Hypnosis™!

I’m certified as a Reiki level II practicioner and I’m trained in iRest Yoga Nidra. 

I also have my teacher certification! Before becoming a hypnotist and yoga teacher, I was an English teacher, and I got to teach and live all over the world— Japan, Peru, Costa Rica, Malaysia— and in two of the most adventurous places of all: a few U.S. public high schools. I’ll always be an educator at heart; but eventually I took the leap into teaching others what I felt called to: practices, skills, and techniques to support emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual freedom.

I’m a sagittarius, taurus moon, virgo rising. In Mayan astrology, I’m a Tz’ikin, and I learned recently that in Human Design I’m a 6/2 (role model/ hermit) and am in my ‘on the roof’ era. I’m a creative, a traveler, and a seeker. I’m also a highly sensitive person (HSP), intuitive, and empathic. I love mornings, hot tea, oracle cards, hiking in the mountains, and adventures in other countries. I can’t believe how beautiful this planet is, and my heart orbits around my dog, Daphne.