We’re Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam. We’re married, we’re raising our son in Los Angeles, and this practice grew out of what we’ve learned about connection, healing, and the nerve it takes to be ourselves.
Jaime spent years as an athlete and a leader, building community and caring for everyone around her, and learning, sometimes the hard way, how to care for herself too.
Yonatan’s life was shaped by music, performance, and creative expression. It taught him how beautiful, and how exhausting, it can be to pour yourself into the people and things you love.
Our separate paths each led us to practices that are now part of Word of Mouth. Our relationship is what brought them together.
We still tell the story of our first date.
Jaime remembers walking up to the restaurant in downtown Los Angeles and seeing Yonatan leaning against the railing outside, tall and cool, waiting for her.
We sat down in a funky Asian fusion place full of plants, ordered, and settled in to get to know each other.
Before the usual first-date conversation could really get going, Yonatan sat up, took a breath, and told her something important.
At that point in his life, he didn’t feel monogamy was for him, and he wasn’t sure marriage was either. He believed deeply in love and partnership. He also wanted the freedom to find out what those could look like for him.
That’s a vulnerable thing to say to someone you’ve just met. He’d had this conversation on dates before, and he knew the answer was sometimes a kind, simple “no thanks.” He’d learned how to hear that. Being honest from the start mattered more to him than saying what he guessed someone wanted to hear.
Jaime’s answer surprised him.
“Me too.”
We had no idea what we’d become. We just knew we’d started with something real.
So much has changed since that night.
At some point, seeing other people stopped feeling right for us. We talked about it.
Marriage, which hadn’t been part of either of our plans, started to feel like a natural expression of the life we were building. We talked about that too.
Eventually, our conversations about the future began to include children.
There have been hundreds of smaller conversations along the way. Some were tender and some were hard, and a few asked us to let go of ideas we’d held for years.
What’s stayed with us is the practice we started that first night. We pay attention to what’s true, we say it with care, and we make room for each other to change.
Intimacy, we’ve learned, means meeting each other again and again as we grow. And when you can hear a no without abandoning yourself, you make room for a yes that actually fits.
Long before there was a business, we were practicing all of this at home.
When hard moments came up between us, we learned that talking wasn’t always the first thing we needed. Sometimes we started by moving, or by slowing our breath down. Then we could listen better, ask honest questions, and get curious about the stories underneath our reactions.
We turned to Reiki and sound, too. They gave us another way in when words weren’t enough.
Over time we saw how much it helps to have more than one way to meet yourself. Mind, body, and spirit are all part of the same life, and giving each of them some attention carried us through moments that once felt much harder.
In the fall of 2020, a couple in our community reached out to us. They’d watched us work through our own relationship, including some of the less comfortable moments, and they wanted that kind of connection in their own marriage.
Their asking made us put words and structure around what we’d been living.
We met them under an oak tree in their backyard and brought movement, breath, honest conversation, Reiki, and sound into our time together. On the drive home, we both knew we wanted to give ourselves to this work.
That’s where Word of Mouth began.
We’re always in relationship. With our partners and our families, with our bodies and our work, with our memories, and with the ideas we hold about ourselves.
Some of what we carry comes from experiences we haven’t found a way to understand yet. Maybe it’s a story about needing to be strong, or keeping our feelings to ourselves, or earning love by taking care of everyone else first.
When we look at those stories with compassion and a little context, we often find we have more choices than we thought.
That possibility is the heart of our work.
Jaime brings a background in corporate leadership, athletics, movement, breathwork, and energy medicine to her work. She knows firsthand what it’s like to be successful by every outside measure and still be running on empty.
In sessions, she brings warmth, close attention, and a deep respect for the body’s intelligence. She believes we can learn to listen to ourselves without losing our ability to lead, or to care for the people we love.
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Yonatan has spent his life making music and asking what it means to express something honestly. His background as a musician, performer, artist, and Classical Pilates teacher shapes the way he listens and works with people.
He brings creativity, curiosity, and a precise, attentive presence to every session, and helps clients see both the patterns and the possibilities in their own stories.
Meet Yonatan →We’re both certified Usui Reiki Master Teachers, and have been for six years.
I didn’t know exactly what to expect going into the Level One Reiki training with Jaime and Yonatan, but it ended up being so much more powerful than I could’ve imagined. It opened me up to energies I’ve always felt but didn’t fully understand—and now I not only recognize how they affect me, but I also feel equipped to protect myself from them. Since the training, I feel significantly more grounded and emotionally regulated in my everyday life. The experience of learning from both Jaime and Yonatan is truly something special. They each bring their own unique wisdom and energy to the training—Jaime has this expansive, intuitive presence, while Yonatan’s style is more precise and laser-focused. That combination created such a well-rounded, integrated experience. Their contrast actually helped me find my own flow somewhere in the middle. The collaboration between them is beautiful, and I feel really lucky to have learned from such powerful and grounded teachers. If you’re even a little curious, I can’t recommend Word of Mouth enough.
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This power couple has it all.. and more.. and they are willing to share it all.. with great care! They individually have unique wisdom to enlighten different parts of life. Jaime has held remarkable space for me to deep into the deepest relaxation and get in touch with that with needs to be dissolved so that I can rise back into my full power. Yonatan has shared countless amounts of wisdom that has helped me see how I can better navigate through relationships, both with others, myself, and the world. Together, their magic is profound and has the power to transform the most difficult situations and feelings into calm, inspiring energy. I will recommend them to any friends that come to me feeling lost, confused, tired, depressed, stuck and/or uninspired! They will easily know which route to take and which tools and practices to share!
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Yonatan and Jamie are truly amazing people! Their energy is infectious, and they've created such a positive and supportive environment. I've really grown as a person thanks to their guidance, and I can't recommend them enough to anyone looking for a transformative experience.
These days, clients usually work with one of us individually. We share the practice and the values behind it, and we each bring our own way of seeing people.
Our work keeps growing alongside our marriage, our family, our clients, and everything we’re still learning. We’d love to welcome you into it.
