Meet Emily Peterson
Emily is a Shamanic energy worker, Reiki Master Teacher, and yin yoga teacher and trainer who is passionate about guiding people in connecting to their true essence.
We were born as Divine Beings but biology, circumstance, culture and conditioning, have often required us to hide under the physically destructive armor of invulnerability.
My work draws from a wide range of healing disciplines; I bring together the modern neuroscience of connection, resilience and somatic body work with ancient practices and wisdom drawn from yoga, shamanism, and energy healing to co-create a path back to each individual's truest, most sacred and sovereign self.
- Emily
Emily’s approach to healing and teaching embraces the wisdom of the body and spirit as the place where healing and peace lie. She creates the space for feeling, intuiting, reconnecting and transforming. And living with more joy and awe.
Emily's healing work is informed by the science of trauma, traumatic stress and post traumatic growth: her technique is based off of how our nervous systems have adapted and developed in response to myriad forces (such as our ancestry, circumstances of birth, primary relationships and our culture).
Emily has experienced first-hand how yoga offers a contemplative practice that nurtures a safe connection to one's body. She turned to yoga over 20 years ago to manage chronic pain from her career as an elite competitive volleyball player—it taught her how to genuinely care for her body outside of performance. Yoga was integral to her recovery from an eating disorder, depression, drug-use, and trauma.
Expertise & Certifications
500-hour RYT yoga instructor
YIN yoga teacher trained by Sarah Powers (Insight Yoga) and others.
Shamanic Usui/Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master Teacher trained by Heather Smidt and William Lee Rand
Access Conciousness® Bars Practioner
Apprentice Shamanic Practitioner Training with Sarita Sol, Aquitaine, France
Certified Lead Trainer of Trauma-Responsive Innovations for Mind/Body (TIMBo)
Lead (TIMBo) trainings to bring trauma-resolution to communities in Haiti, Kenya and Rwanda
Program Director and Seed Creator of the Mandela Yoga Project, a somatic, movement-based public health intervention
Created and lead Mandela Yoga Project community trainings in Kenya and Rwanda, and virtual certifying community facilitators and trainers in training
Education & Background
B.A. in Applied Psychology from University of Illinois-Chicago
Emily has studied extensively with Lama Migmar Tseten, Buddhist Chaplain of Harvard University while working towards her Master’s program in Government from Harvard University, Boston