Elena Brower is a mother, artist, and author; she has spent nearly three decades shaping the practice of modern yoga and meditation.

She is the author of five books, including her latest, Hold Nothing (Shambhala Publications, 2025), and the widely translated Art of Attention (2012). Her bestselling guided journals, Practice You (2017) and Being You (2021), along with her poetry collection Softening Time (2023), examine studentship, practice, parenting, and the discipline of listening.

Since 2008, she has taught online yoga and meditation on Glo. She hosts the podcast Practice You, now in its eighth season, featuring twice-monthly conversations on presence and care.

Elena completed Upaya's Chaplaincy Training Program in early 2026; as a Soto Zen student, she received jukai (lay Zen vows) with Monshin Nannette Overley in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, and serves in hospice and penitentiary settings.

Through her Substack, Hold Nothing, she writes at the intersection of practice and daily life. Both her writing and her Hold Nothing Foundation [501(c)3] support organizations serving girls and women globally, including On The Inside and Girls on Fire Leaders.