Hi, I’m Emily & I am passionate about accessible yoga for ALL.
A bit about me…
I am an avid seeker, yoga teacher and Reiki healer with a deep passion for helping others. I am a highly experienced & professionally registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance (E-RYT200) who teaches all around Metro Atlanta, both publicly and privately. It is incredibly important to me that yoga be accessible to everyone, regardless of personal ability, background, means, sexuality, gender, or financial standing. Because of this, I have been offering donation based yoga since 2014. My focus as a teacher is to offer yoga as an avenue towards healing and recovery, and thus I am a community partner of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition as well as a certified Y12SR (Yoga for 12-Step Recovery) leader, who has avidly trained under Nikki Myers. I am also certified in Yoga for All: Creating Body Positive Yoga Classes for All Shapes, Sizes, and Abilities with Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes. Having experienced the positive transformative effects of yoga firsthand, I aim to bring that same sense of wholeness and balance between effort and ease to my students.
I presented for the Southern Yoga Therapy Association on Yoga for Addiction in 2018
I am a founding member and board member of Southern Yoga Therapy Association
I have been a member of The Yoga and Body Image Coalition since 2015
I have owned & operated my own business since 2015 as a yoga teacher specializing in inclusive + recovery based yoga
I have assisted in leading multiple teacher trainings + retreats
Please check out my Voyage ATL Interview to learn more about all of the work I am doing in the Greater Atlanta Area!
Continued Trainings/
Professional Education/
Applied Psych. For Yogis: Stages of Development, Livia Cohen-Shapiro, 2016
Trauma Sensitive Yoga, April Berta & Ahoo Sarab, 2016
The Psychologically Sound Yoga Classroom, Livia Cohen Shapiro, 2016
Y12SR: Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, Nikki Myers, 2015
Applied Psychology for Yogis, Livia Cohen- Shapiro, 2015
Prajna Yoga for Immunity, Djuna Mascall, 2015
What are we actually doing in asana?, Matthew Remski, 2015
Diversity Training for Yoga Teachers, Jacoby Ballard & Chelsea Jackson Roberts, 2015
Prenatal Safety for Yoga Teachers, Jaimee Rister-Schick, 2015
Deepening Our Embodiment Group Practice, Livia Cohen-Shapiro, 2015
How to Teach Restorative Yoga Workshop, Elizabeth Nix, 2015
Functional Synergy: Therapeutic Yoga, Susi Hately, IAYT, 2015
Exploring the Y’s of Therapeutic Yoga Workshop, Tra Kirkpatrick, Marlysa Sullivan & Holle Black, 2015
Prajna Yoga Immersion Workshop, Djuna Mascall E-RYT 500, Senior Prajna Yoga Teacher, 2014
Structural Integration Workshop, Ashby Underwood, Yoga Therapist and Rolf Bodyworker, 2014
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Auburn University, 2013
ERYT-200 Vista Yoga, 2014
YogaFit Level 1, 2014
Yoga For ALL, 2017
Y12SR: Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Leader, 2015
Reiki Level 1, 2015
Reiki Level 2, 2018