I know what it costs to hold yourself together while feeling lost inside.
And I know what it feels like to come back.
Not through fixing yourself. Not through forcing yourself into a smaller, quieter, more acceptable version of who you are. Through actually coming home to your body and finding out that everything you were looking for was already there.
That’s what this work is built on. My own path through it, and fifteen years of guiding women through theirs.
I know what it costs to hold yourself together while feeling lost inside.
And I know what it feels like to come back.
Not through fixing yourself. Not through forcing yourself into a smaller, quieter, more acceptable version of who you are. Through actually coming home to your body and finding out that everything you were looking for was already there.
That’s what this work is built on. My own path through it, and fifteen years of guiding women through theirs.
Where it started
I was an Exercise Science major with a pre-physical therapy emphasis. In my last semester of college, I landed a full-time internship with a physical therapist who specialized in myofascial release. I had studied fascia as a vocabulary term in anatomy class, connective tissue, and that was about it. What I discovered in that clinic changed the entire direction of my life.
Fascia isn’t just connective tissue. It is the body’s most intelligent pattern. It holds patterns, history, emotion, structure. Working with it felt like speaking a language I had always known but never been taught. I knew immediately this was my path.
PT school was the obvious next step but something didn’t sit right. I didn’t want to work symptom by symptom. I wanted the holistic lens. I had heard about Rolfing Structural Integration from an uncle who had remarkable results from the work. The first time I read about it I knew. This was exactly how I wanted to work with the body. I always knew I would do more than Rolfing, but I wanted the Structural Integration and the lens of the fascia to be the foundation for how I supported a woman, in whatever capacity we were working together.
Where it started
I was an Exercise Science major with a pre-physical therapy emphasis. In my last semester of college, I landed a full-time internship with a physical therapist who specialized in myofascial release. I had studied fascia as a vocabulary term in anatomy class, connective tissue, and that was about it. What I discovered in that clinic changed the entire direction of my life.
Fascia isn’t just connective tissue. It is the body’s most intelligent pattern. It holds patterns, history, emotion, structure. Working with it felt like speaking a language I had always known but never been taught. I knew immediately this was my path.
PT school was the obvious next step but something didn’t sit right. I didn’t want to work symptom by symptom. I wanted the holistic lens. I had heard about Rolfing Structural Integration from an uncle who had remarkable results from the work. The first time I read about it I knew. This was exactly how I wanted to work with the body. I always knew I would do more than Rolfing, but I wanted the Structural Integration and the lens of the fascia to be the foundation for how I supported a woman, in whatever capacity we were working together.
Before I committed, I wanted to live it
I spent a year volunteering with AmeriCorps at a homeless shelter in southern Colorado after graduating. Then I moved to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts to volunteer, study, and live at Kripalu, one of the largest yoga retreat centers in North America.
Those six months changed the direction of everything. I established a yoga and meditation practice, received my first Rolfing sessions and craniosacral work, attended nearly every workshop I could get into, and began to understand, for the first time, that the critical voice in my head wasn’t the truth. It was just a pattern. Loud and convincing, but not me.
That time in my early twenties laid the foundation for everything that followed. I moved to Boulder in the fall of 2013 to attend the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute and graduated in August 2015. I opened my practice that October.
The part I didn’t talk about
For years, as my practice grew, I wasn’t in my body. I felt insecure, disconnected, holding it together on the outside while quietly hiding on the inside.
I would put networking events on my calendar and sit in my car outside, unable to go in. I’d spend 30 minutes getting dressed because nothing felt right, not because of the clothes, but because of how I felt in my own skin. I was exhausted in a way that had nothing to do with being busy.
I kept thinking confidence was somewhere out there. In the next certification. The next program. The next version of myself I hadn’t become yet.
What I know now is that I was looking in the wrong direction.
Where things actually shifted
About a year and a half into my Rolfing practice, I was introduced to the work of Rachael Jayne Groover and entered a year-long Feminine Leadership Mastery program, becoming a certified Art of Feminine Presence teacher. I began leading small in-person circles for women.
This was the work where I first learned to truly inhabit myself. Not conceptually, but actually BEING in in my body. In my center. In the part of me that had been quietly disconnected for most of my life. I experienced my own enoughness not by repeating affirmations but by actually feeling it from the inside out. It was one of the most significant moments of my life, and I knew I needed to share it with other women.
From there I kept going deeper. Breathwork facilitation. Coaching certification. Two years supporting women in a high-level coaching program working with family patterns, healing conversations, and the childhood conditioning that shapes adult relationships. Each layer added texture and precision to how I work.
Somewhere in early 2020, I realized something had quietly shifted. I wasn’t preoccupied with my body anymore. I wasn’t white-knuckling my way through getting dressed or dreading social events. I was eating for nourishment, moving because I loved it, and showing up to my life without the constant weight of self-criticism running in the background.
It didn’t happen through one practice or one breakthrough. It happened through all of it, working together, over time, in my body.
That realization, that staying home in yourself is what creates the lasting shift, became the heart of everything I teach.
Now…
I went from sitting in my car outside networking events to speaking at least once a month for groups of women, and loving every minute of it.
Fifteen years of client work, continuing education, yearlong trainings, and my own embodiment practice have brought me to where I stand now. Working at the intersection of fascia, nervous system, somatic coaching, and the physical, emotional, and energetic as one. Not as separate modalities but as one integrated approach to helping a woman come back to herself.
That integration is where women find their spark again. Their confidence. Their presence. Their ability to walk into a room and actually be there.
Trainings & Certifications
- Certified Rolfer, Dr. Ida Rolf Institute
- Certified Awaken Transformation Coach
- Art of Feminine Presence Certified Teacher
- Animal Flow Instructor
- Floor Flow Instructor
- Bachelor of Science, Exercise Science, University of Kansas
- Additional training:
- Craniosacral work, Reclaiming the Pelvic Floor, Feminine Leadership Mastery, neuroscience of chronic pain, functional methods from an osteopathic perspective, Parent Work, Earth Magic Women’s Academy, Reiki Level 1 & 2, Breathwork Facilitator, and more…
A little more about me
I live in Denver, Colorado. I’m the youngest of seven and aunt to twelve nieces and nephews.
In my free time you’ll find me in or near water. On my paddleboard, swimming in a lake, soaking in hot springs, standing in a mountain creek, or watching the ocean. Water is where I feel most myself. I also love being on the trails, camping, skiing, and reading in the sun with my dog Tula Rose nearby.
Much love,
Emily
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