Know what moves you, and you will move others.
Faith, fascia, and finding the way home — to body, God, and land.
I always say: “Know what moves you, and you will move others.”
My work is a winding trail of faith, fascia, and finding my way back home — to the body, to God, and to the land I now call Elmwood Place.
I hold a degree in dance and have trained in classical Pilates, yoga, pranayama breathing, sound, and color therapy. For over two decades I’ve taught Pilates in Houston and East Texas, but my passion has always been deeper than fitness — I’m drawn to how movement, breath, and alignment unlock healing.
That passion birthed Motion of Emotion™ — a fascia-focused recalibration system that uses color, sound, and movement to help reprogram the brain through the body. It’s science-backed, rooted in scripture, and profoundly practical. By teaching the body first, the brain follows. Through daily repetition, we can rewrite trauma loops, regulate the vagus nerve, and restore the parasympathetic nervous system.
This work doesn’t erase the pain of life, but it gives you tools to process it. To move through it. To realign, regulate, and return to the divine intelligence God planted in your body.
I call this turning on your inner physician. No endless years of therapy or prescriptions — just the body’s God-given wisdom, recalibrated through consistent practice.
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I’m Melody Morton-Buckleair — Pilates educator, retreat leader, and survivor of covert narcissistic abuse. My own healing didn’t come from prescriptions or years of talking about my pain. It came through the body — through movement, breath, fascia release, sound, and color.
I created Motion of Emotion™ because I know what it feels like to be trapped in trauma loops. This method was born from decades of training in classical Pilates, dance, yoga, pranayama breathing, sound, and color therapy. Piece by piece, I wove them together into a system that helps the body lead the brain back to safety and strength.
What Motion of Emotion™ Is
Motion of Emotion™ is a fascia-focused, daily somatic recalibration practice that gives your emotions movement — so you can heal, recalibrate, and rewire your brain from trauma without having to relive the trauma.
Here’s how it works:
We identify trauma patterns using color and sound.
We work directly with the fascia system — the water-rich connective tissue that holds memory, responds to intention, and communicates through the entire body.
Through conscious movement and repetition, we hack into the central and peripheral nervous system — especially the vagus nerve and enteric nervous system.
We retrain the body first, so the brain follows.
When you practice it, it clicks. Fascia responds to attitude and motivation, so when your intention is to heal, your body becomes the doorway. Over time, these movements and sounds shift your nervous system from survival to resilience, turning on your God-given inner physician.
👉 Motion of Emotion™ is not about bypassing pain — it’s about giving your body the tools to process, release, and realign so you can finally live free, connected, and whole.
Melody Morton-Buckleair is the founder of Pilates Cowgirl®, Elmwood Place Retreats, and creator of the Motion of Emotion™ workbook and healing system. She holds a degree in dance and has trained extensively in classical Pilates, yoga, pranayama breathing, movement therapy, sound, and color therapy.
With more than 20 years of teaching experience, Melody blends fascia science, scripture, and somatic practice to help people rewire trauma loops and restore nervous system balance. Her work has been featured in Men’s Journal, NerdWallet, mindbodygreen, AskMen, Eat This Not That, Best Life, Voyage Houston, She Rises Studios, and more.
She teaches workshops, leads retreats in East Texas, and is developing a new podcast that explores the intersection of faith, science, and somatic healing.
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See Upcoming RetreatsMelody Morton-Buckleair, The Pilates Cowgirl®, is a Pilates educator, retreat leader, and creator of Motion of Emotion™, a unique healing method combining color, sound, and movement. With a degree in dance and over 20 years of experience, she helps people reconnect to their powerhouse, rewire trauma patterns, and turn on their God-given inner physician.