Founder | Vision | Resident Practitioners

Surreina Gerbman is the founder and steward of Elaruna Sanctuary of Sound & Light — a sanctuary devoted to healing, remembrance, embodiment, and the experiential study of spiritual practice.
For more than 30 years, she has guided individuals and communities through practices that cultivate presence, deepen self-awareness, and support authentic transformation. Her work bridges ancient wisdom and modern life, creating pathways for people to reconnect with themselves, their purpose, and the deeper currents of meaning that shape a well-lived life.
Through Elaruna Sanctuary, she offers classes, ceremonies, trainings, retreats, mentorship, and community experiences designed to support both personal healing and the emergence of soul-led leadership.
Her evolving bodies of work include:
Seasons of Her — a transformational women's journey through archetypal and seasonal gates
Deep Spiritual Studies — experiential teachings that bridge mysticism, embodiment, and grounded integration
Practitioner Trainings & Mentorship — Reiki and Sound Healing pathways for practitioners devoted to authentic, embodied service
Community Ritual & Sound Gatherings — immersive experiences aligned with lunar, seasonal, and ancestral rhythms
Surreina is known for creating spaces that feel both sacred and accessible — where depth is welcomed, authentic connection is nurtured, and transformation is honored as a lifelong journey.
Rooted like an ancient tree and ever evolving through seasons of life, Surreina’s work is shaped by lived experience, devotion, and deep listening.
Her approach weaves together ceremony, embodied movement, sound healing, meditation, nervous system support, and spiritual study — not as separate modalities, but as interconnected pathways of remembrance and transformation.
Much of what she offers has emerged through her own unfolding: through seasons of healing, transition, reclamation, and profound inner listening. This lived relationship with the work allows her to hold space with both depth and grounded compassion.
Whether guiding a sound immersion, seasonal ceremony, retreat, or intimate circle, Surreina creates spaces that invite presence, reflection, embodiment, and authentic connection.
Her work is especially resonant for those navigating periods of awakening, transition, reinvention, and deeper spiritual maturation — particularly women longing to reconnect with their intuition, wisdom, voice, and sense of belonging.
At the center of it all is a simple devotion: creating spaces where people feel safe enough to soften, listen deeply, remember themselves, and become more fully alive.


For over 30 years, Surreina has immersed herself in the study and practice of healing arts, embodiment, meditation, energy medicine, and transformational work — weaving together both intuitive wisdom and grounded therapeutic approaches.
Her professional training includes:
Clinical Hypnotherapy
500-hour Professional Yoga & Meditation
Holy Fire® III Usui Reiki Master
Priestess of the Rose Ceremonial Leadership
Amba Feminine Embodiment Facilitation
Advanced Sound Healing with Gong Avatar Academy
Aroma-Healing Practitioner & Training
Deeply devoted to the power of ritual and rite of passage, Surreina has spent years studying ceremonial traditions and crafting experiences that honor both personal and collective transformation.
At the heart of her work remains a continued devotion to learning, deep listening, and guiding others with integrity, presence, and care.
Elaruna Sanctuary is home to a growing collective of resident practitioners devoted to creating experiences that support healing, embodiment, spiritual growth, and meaningful transformation.
Each practitioner brings their own unique gifts, training, and perspective — offering pathways through modalities such as astrology, breathwork, sound healing, ceremony, women’s circles, cacao rituals, movement, meditation, and energetic healing practices.
Together, these offerings help weave Elaruna into a living sanctuary of remembrance, connection, and community — where diverse teachings and practices are held with depth, integrity, presence, and care.
Whether attending a weekly class, immersive ceremony, healing circle, workshop, or special event, you are invited into spaces designed to nourish the nervous system, awaken inner wisdom, and support the unfolding journey of becoming.

Some people arrive in a space after it has been created. Others help breathe it into being.
Jamee Palmer has been part of Elaruna Sanctuary from the very beginning. As Elaruna's first resident practitioner, she became far more than someone offering services within these walls—she became an integral part of the sanctuary's creation. Through countless hours of visioning, building, organizing, problem-solving, and simply showing up with unwavering support, Jamee helped bring the dream of Elaruna into physical form. In many ways, she served as a quiet "birth doula" for the sanctuary itself, holding space for what was unfolding long before its doors officially opened.
That same presence is at the heart of everything she offers.
A Usui Holy Fire Reiki Level II Practitioner, sound practitioner, intuitive guide, educator, and holistic hairstylist, Jamee has spent her life cultivating spaces where people feel deeply seen, supported, and safe to reconnect with themselves. Her intuitive awareness has been present since childhood, naturally sensing the subtle layers that often exist beyond words. She approaches this gift with humility, compassion, and a deep respect for each person's unique journey, allowing intuition to gently inform the way she holds space for healing and transformation.
As a graduate of Surreina Gerbman's Singing Bowl Foundations Training, Jamee has developed an evolving and deeply intuitive relationship with sound. Her offerings are less about performance and more about presence—creating immersive experiences that invite the nervous system to soften, the mind to quiet, and the inner landscape to open. Participants often find themselves entering profound meditative states where insight, restoration, and inner guidance can naturally arise.
Beyond Elaruna, Jamee is the founder of Bloom Wild Collective, where she brings a holistic approach to hair care, personal well-being, and intentional living. She also serves as an instructor at Brillare Beauty Institute - Chattanooga, sharing her knowledge and mentoring future professionals with the same patience, warmth, and wholehearted presence she brings to every aspect of her work.
Jamee currently offers The Portal, a monthly Guided Meditation & Sound Journey that invites participants to step beyond the busyness of everyday life and into a space of deep listening, rest, and remembrance. Through guided meditation, immersive sound, and intuitive facilitation, each gathering becomes an opportunity to reconnect with inner wisdom, restore balance, and experience the profound healing that can emerge through stillness.
Whether you are seeking relaxation, clarity, spiritual connection, or simply a place to pause and receive, Jamee welcomes you exactly as you are.
Learn more about Jamee, Bloom Wild Collective, and upcoming Portal gatherings by visiting her website below.
Sometimes the next step on our path isn't something we need to learn—it is something we need to trust.
That was Amelia.
For years, Amelia had been participating in and co-facilitating women's circles, quietly holding space, witnessing transformation, and feeling a gentle but persistent invitation rising within her. There was a deeper calling asking her to step forward and create a circle of her own.
That calling became unmistakable after she stepped through the doors of Elaruna and later experienced a profound awakening during her Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master Training. What had once felt like a quiet whisper became a clear invitation. Trusting the inner knowing she had carried for years, Amelia embraced her path as a soul-led leader and began offering the work that had been waiting to come through her.
There is a beautiful steadiness to Amelia's presence that invites others to soften, exhale, and simply be themselves. Drawn to the healing power of authentic connection and women's work, she creates spaces where vulnerability becomes strength, shared experience becomes medicine, and each woman is gently invited back to the wisdom of her own heart.
As an Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master and graduate of Surreina's Singing Bowl Foundations Training, Amelia brings a deeply intuitive quality to her work. Her sound journeys are heartfelt, emotionally resonant, and guided by a quiet sensitivity to the energy of the room, creating experiences that feel both grounding and deeply nurturing.
Amelia offers Sacred Flame Women's Circle, a monthly gathering that weaves together sisterhood, meditation, ritual, authentic sharing, energy healing, and sound immersion. Rooted in the wisdom of the sacred feminine, her circles invite women to reconnect with their inner flame, release what no longer serves, and remember the strength, beauty, and truth that have always lived within them.
Whether you are seeking meaningful connection, a place to be seen and supported, or the courage to trust your own inner knowing, Amelia offers a space where your flame is welcomed, honored, and gently encouraged to shine.


Some people arrive at Elaruna because they are invited. Others find their way here because something deep within them recognizes they have come home.
That was Mirilena.
The first time she stepped through the doors of Elaruna, there was an immediate knowing. She knew she had found the place her heart had been searching for.
Since then, her offerings have continued to evolve alongside the sanctuary, guided by intuition, creativity, and a deep commitment to serving others.
Beyond the circles she facilitates, Mirilena cares for Elaruna with remarkable reverence. She prepares the space with intention and leaves it even more beautiful than she found it. Flowers gathered during ceremony become offerings upon the altar, and every detail is touched with gratitude and devotion, as though the sanctuary itself is a living altar.
Her presence reminds us that tending sacred space is itself a spiritual practice.
Mirilena brings together a rich blend of embodied movement, transformational coaching, ceremonial leadership, and energy medicine.
A longtime yoga teacher and therapeutic bodyworker, she has spent years supporting others through movement, healing touch, and embodied awareness before expanding into transformational facilitation through Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), energy work, and sacred ceremony.
Her studies include Hawaiian Huna practices, Peruvian shamanic traditions, meditation, sound healing, and vocal expression. One of her most remarkable gifts is her voice—not only as a gifted singer, but as an intuitive channel whose songs often arise spontaneously in response to the energy of the moment.
Whether guiding movement, meditation, ceremony, or transformational practices, Mirilena creates spaces where people feel safe to soften, be witnessed, and reconnect with the truth of who they are.
At Elaruna, Mirilena offers Acceptance Alchemy Live Women's Circles, Soul Surrender, and Full Moon Fire Release Ceremonies, each inviting participants into authentic connection, healing, and remembrance.
Through Acceptance Alchemy and Soul Surrender, she weaves together guided meditation, NLP practices, sound healing, intuitive song, creative ritual, meaningful conversation, and community to create experiences that support emotional healing, self-discovery, nervous system restoration, and authentic transformation.
During her Full Moon Fire Release Ceremonies, Mirilena draws upon her ceremonial training in Hawaiian Huna and Peruvian shamanic traditions to guide participants through sacred fire ritual. Through prayer, song, intention, and symbolic release, participants are invited to surrender what no longer serves while offering heartfelt prayers for what they are ready to welcome into their lives.
Across every offering, Mirilena creates experiences that feel both deeply grounded and profoundly sacred—spaces where healing unfolds naturally through presence, community, ceremony, and the courage to meet ourselves with compassion.
Some journeys begin with a map. Others begin with a quiet knowing that asks us to trust what cannot yet be explained.
That was Tatiana.
Originally from Colombia and most recently living in Germany, Tatiana felt an unmistakable call to begin a new chapter in Chattanooga. Following that inner guidance meant leaving behind what was familiar and stepping into the unknown—trusting that the people, places, and purpose meant for her would reveal themselves in time.
As she began seeking community, Tatiana attended the very first Reiki Practitioner Share at Elaruna. What she found was more than an event. She found a circle of kindred spirits, a collaborative community rooted in authenticity, and a sanctuary where practitioners genuinely celebrate and support one another's gifts. There was an immediate connection between us, and she knew Elaruna was the place where she could begin sharing her work and building the community she had been searching for.
Tatiana's work is rooted in a lifetime of curiosity, study, and lived experience. Originally trained as a lawyer with a Master's Degree in German Law, her life's path took an unexpected turn through the profound transformation of motherhood. In the stillness that followed, she began listening to a deeper calling—one that led her away from practicing the laws created by humanity and toward exploring the timeless wisdom that lives within the soul.
Today, Tatiana walks as a Kundalini yoga teacher, shamanic astrologer, and spiritual guide whose work is deeply informed by years of study, personal practice, and embodied experience. Having lived in multiple countries and immersed herself in diverse cultures and spiritual traditions, she brings a perspective that is both expansive and deeply grounded.
What is most striking about Tatiana is not simply what she has studied, but how fully she embodies it. There is a quiet authenticity in the way she teaches, lives, and holds space. Her understanding of yoga, astrology, shamanic wisdom, meditation, and energy work is not something she performs—it is something she lives. This embodied presence allows others to feel safe slowing down, listening inward, and reconnecting with the wisdom that has always been within them.
At Elaruna, Tatiana offers Astro Yoga, a monthly embodied practice that weaves together mindful movement, breathwork, mantra, meditation, and current astrological themes to support grounding, self-awareness, and alignment with the rhythms of life.
She will also be offering occasional Astrology & Cacao Ceremonies, creating heart-centered spaces for reflection, intention, and deeper connection through ceremonial cacao, astrological wisdom, meditation, and sacred ritual.
Whether joining her on the mat or in ceremony, participants are invited into experiences that encourage presence, embodiment, and trust in their own inner guidance.
Learn more about Tatiana's upcoming offerings and registration details below. ✨









A SPIRIT LED ORIGIN STORY...
She arrived gradually through quiet whispers, embodied knowing, ceremony, and lived experience — revealing herself over time as something to be remembered rather than invented.
What unfolded through years of devoted practice, ceremony, and service, revealed a deeper calling: the creation of a sanctuary devoted not simply to practices, but to remembrance, embodiment, and soul-led becoming.
ELARA — one of Jupiter’s moons, carrying the energy of expansion, awakening, and cosmic remembrance.
LUNA — the moon, speaking to rhythm, intuition, cycles, and the sacred feminine.
RUNE — ancient symbols of wisdom, mystery, and divination — a remembrance of old ways carried forward into modern life.
A sanctuary guided by cycles, resonance, living light, and embodied wisdom.
Elaruna was born from the recognition that sound and light are not merely modalities, but forms of spiritual medicine — intelligent, initiatory, and alive. That true study is experiential. That leadership emerges through embodiment, humility, devotion, and service.
This sanctuary exists in response to a growing longing for spaces where depth, integrity, reverence, and authentic transformation can be held without performance or dogma.
A home for seekers, students, and practitioners who feel called beyond surface-level wellness and into meaningful, lived practice. A place where ceremony remains grounded and alive. Where sound is approached with intelligence and care. Where discomfort is honored as part of transformation. Where remembering becomes a part of the path of becoming.
For those who feel the resonance — who sense an ancient remembering stirring within — this sanctuary offers a place to gather, to study deeply, and to walk the path of embodied awakening together.
Schedule a complimentary 30-minute Discovery Call with Surreina.
Ask questions, and explore what path of support may best align with your journey.
At Elaruna Sanctuary of Sound and Light, transformation begins with presence, intention, and the willingness to return home to yourself.
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