Claudia Brown (Pura Vida Wellness Retreat)

With more than 30 years of experience as a bodyworker, Claudia Brown brings a deeply intuitive and multifaceted approach to healing. Her background includes Harbin-style massage, Yogassage, and Phenomenal Touch Massage, along with energy work shaped by decades of devotional practice and presence. She is also a master hypnotist, a compassionate listener, and an experienced counselor whose work is grounded in wisdom, sensitivity, and care.

Claudia’s path has been shaped by lifelong study and curiosity, including the I Ching, Taoist principles, Mayan time-keeping, natural history, ornithology, somatic wellness, shaking medicine, QI Qong practices, vipassana, and Middle Pilar and Passage meditations. She is also a creator and maker of Yelapa Goddesswear, her prayerful jewelry line.

Originally from California’s San Francisco Bay Area and Sonoma County, Claudia has lived year-round in Yelapa since 2003. Surrounded by nature and the warmth of her community, she lives with gratitude and bliss, sharing a grounded, heart-centered presence in all that she does.