About Emily
Emily’s movement offerings are a unique blend of heart, intuition and skill. Her passion is in helping individuals rediscover a more joyful and easeful way of inhabiting their bodies and navigating the world.
Known for her kind and playful soul, Emily guides each client into true relationship with their body’s innate wisdom. She teaches you to feel subtle nuances in your body and to use feedback to create your own unique pathway into moving with more ease through your practice and life.
With a passion for movement and yoga, Emily has amassed over 1000 hours of training through yoga teacher trainings, somatic movement studies, and personal trainer certifications and weaves her insights and knowledge into each movement session.
Emily specializes in crafting movement progressions designed to enhance body awareness, release tension in challenging areas, access deep core support, and infuse resilient strength throughout your body.
My Story
I entered this world with a healthy dose of fire in my belly and love in my heart. I struggled with traditional learning and was labeled learning disabled. This sat heavy in my heart. My solace came from time in nature and moving my body freely. I enjoyed sports and considered myself an athlete, I was good at pushing myself and stoking my inner fire.
Life happened. I witnessed the second plane hit on September 11th, everything I had suppressed rose to the surface. I returned to Vermont’s nurturing embrace and began my healing process. Mary Oliver and Pema Chodron’s language softened my heart. I ran my first marathon, quit my corporate job and found fullfilment in working to help people live happier healthier lives through empowering them with the best running shoe for their needs at Skirack, in Burlington VT.
I explored the Art of Being Human through teachings of Shambhala meditation and sweat out years of tension and regrets in Bikram classes. I ran a few more marathons and spent many a miles tapping into my joy riding the hills of Vermont on my road and mountain bike. Yet, I yearned for more! A personal development program, Landmark Education, gave me the tools to create a new possibility for my life. I made a conscious choice to head West and called it my freedom tour. The mantra “from a place of joy” arose from my being and I followed it to Carbondale, Colorado. Warmed by Mt. Sopris sweet glow, I settled in and wove myself into our vibrant and magical community. And met and would soon marry the love of my life!!
Transformed by my 5 Gems Yoga Teacher training, I started teaching at Kula Yoga On Main, a sweet studio that deeply values community and continues to holds space for my growth and evolution, as a yoga teacher. I became a PT Aide at SPORT PT, a nurturing rehab environment that taught me the importance of creating a relationship with the muscles that needed a little bit more coaxing. Bit by the movement bug, I became a NASM personal trainer and joined the TAC Fitness team, a high level training facility focused on coaching athletes to perform at their best through endurance, power and strength training. I joined the team to serve as their functional movement specialist.
Still, I longed for a deeper relationship with my body. I wanted to understand the inside of movement. I enrolled in Intelligent Motion Training course that has since evolved into IMS: Interdisciplinary Movement and Somatics with teacher Kaila June Keliikuli. I learned how to tend to my body and calm my nervous system through movement. After a car accident, just a few months into my training, left me feeling disconnected, depleted and detached from my body, these somatic movement practices quickly became my daily medicine and transformed my life. I learned how to slow down, deeply listen to my body’s intrinsic wisdom and move at a healing pace.
I am a life long learner and love sharing the knowledge I have gained through listening to my body’s inner wisdom. Working with me is a co-creative process that is defined by your goals, needs and learning style.
I’d be honored to be your guide.
