Our Teachers & Team Members
Susan Tenney, Co-Founder & Acupressure Instructor
Susan's students and clients say that she positively shines when she works. Her love of animals comes through in everything she does. To illustrate her ideas, Susan can be theatrical - making an idea come alive by panting like a happy dog or drooping her head and sighing like a horse relaxing into a massage. These images stay with students, helping them integrate ancient East Asian Medical concepts into their modern day lives. To Susan, Five Element Acupressure is so insightful and powerful that it seems wondrous. She passes on that sense of wonder to her students, clients and readers.
Susan feels strongly that massage and acupressure are for everyone - not just the "experts" . This you-can-do-it attitude carries over into her classes where she delights in demystifying Classical East Asian Medicine and Five Element theory. Her deep experience and gentle touch makes her very popular with her students and readers as well as her four-legged clients!
Susan teaches the Shiatsu, acupressure and Five Element theory courses. She is the co-founder of Elemental Acupressure along with her husband, Jonathan Cohn. Read Susan's full bio and CV by clicking on her photo
Jonathan Cohn, Co-Founder & EnergyWork™ Instructor
Jonathan heads up the intuitive side of things at Elemental Acupressure. His clear, grounded, down-to-earth style makes learning how to use your intuition simple and accessible. Students appreciate his strong calm presence and his quiet reassurance in their exploration of EnergyWork™ and the Five Element meditations. He passes on his gentle approach through easy-to-learn practical methods. Students say that his step-by-step techniques are invaluable in their work with animals and in their own lives.
Jonathan teaches the EnergyWork courses as well as the Elemental meditation in the Element courses. He also does tech and video editing for all of our courses. He may stay in the background a lot of the time but his presence is a guiding light to our team. Jonathan is the EA co-founder with his wife, Susan Tenney.
Kristen Guerra, Senior Instructor
Kristen, horse obsessed since her earliest memories, got her life changing horse, Spring, at age 18. They were together for 26 years through every type of riding discipline and thousands of miles together. Spring introduced Kristen to the world of East Asian Medicine when acupuncture saved his life. He made a full recovery and inspired her to transition from being an Aerospace Engineer to an Equine Bodyworker.
Kristen also studied Yin Style Bagua Zhang martial and medical arts under Dr. Xie Peiqi in Beijing, China. She also applied her passion for East Asian Medicine to her National Equine Acupressure Certification.
Kristen has had a thriving and much in demand animal bodywork practice in Arizona since 2004. She has taught both locally and for international animal acupressure programs for over 15 years. She lives with her family at the Desert Spring Ranch named after horse beloved Spring where she breeds Warmbloods.
Elemental Acupressure is grateful to have Kristen as our Senior Instructor. Her presentations are marked by her deep experience, her sparkling sense of humor, and of course her profound skill and understanding. We could not be happier to have her lead the Instructor team. Read more about her private practice in the Phoenix, AZ area by clicking on her photo.
Jodi Brassard, Associate Instructor
Jodi Brassard is an All Around Horse Trainer originally from Texas and now in Colorado. In the past 20 years, Jodi has been training, showing, and giving lessons in her busy private practice, Brassard Equine Services, LLC.
Jodi was looking to add to the relationship and well-being of her equine clients when she discovered Classical East Asian Medicine. She loves how acupressure and the Elemental Matrix Method™ blend seamlessly with her expertise in training, fire cupping, equine massage, and more.
Jodi loves trail riding and working cattle with her rescue horse, Keeva, (although Jodi will say it was KEEVA who adopted HER). They regularly travel to present clinics in training, riding, acupressure, and bodywork. They are often accompanied by her energetic dogs, Luna and Cooper.
Elemental Acupressure is lucky to have Jodi’s insightful, enthusiastic, and high energy presence in our online meetings. Read more about her private practice by clicking on her photo.
Robina ("Rubi") Michelic, EA Marketing and Admin Wizard
Rubi's presence in our office has been nothing short of transformative for Elemental Acupressure. With her degree in marketing she helps EA spread the word about the Elemental Matrix Method™she is so passionate about. If you have enjoyed a free resource like "Beat the Heat" or joined a webinar in the past few years you can be sure that Rubi helped us make it happen. We couldn't be more grateful.
Rubi came to EA to help her horse Orlando who at the time was almost untouchable and riddled with several confusing and intractable conditions. She had tried EVERYTHING and was starting to lose hope. She joined an EA webinar and in a last ditch effort, tried to touch Heart 1 which she assumed he would resist. She was dumbfounded when ultra- reactive Orlando melted in release. She was hooked and she hasn't looked back since that day.
Since then, Rubi has left the corporate world, graduated from Elemental Acupressure, and built her own full-time practice in Austria.
Today, the Elemental Matrix Method™ forms the foundation of her signature approach. Rather than chasing individual symptoms, she helps horse owners recognize the patterns their horses show every day—in their behavior, movement, learning, and relationship with their humans.
This allows them to understand their horses more clearly, notice meaningful changes before they escalate, and make confident decisions—not out of fear, but from a place of clarity. Click on the photo to visit her own web page
Elsie Kenna, EA Copywriter and Admin Extrordinaire
Elsie came to us as a student and hasn't left since. She has a way with words which we put to good use in our Facebook posts, educational materials, and our free resources. If you have downloaded a PDF like our E.A.Sy. Acupressure Guide, you've seen her expertise up close. From rewriting the copy to graphic design, she makes sure that our materials are friendly, clear, and useful for all our community. And as someone from the bi-lingual French-Canadian region, she even helps us produce those same helpful materials in French.
In addition to helping online businesses like EA make their educational and marketing materials shine, she combines her love of words and animals into her signature intuitive communication service, Channeled Pet Poetry by Elsie. (click on the photo to check out her pet poetry)