Emily was first introduced to yoga in 1996 by Vickie and Jerry Aldridge (Iyengar yoga). Emily was very grateful to have the foundation of Iyengar yoga as she went on to try many other great forms of yoga. Emily has studied with Noah Maze, Karen Sprute-Francovich and Cate Stillman all current or previous certified Anusara® yoga teachers. Emily is a certified Anusara-Inspired® yoga teacher.

Emily studied Anusara-Inspired® yoga with Brandie Redinger since 2002. Emily was drawn to study Anusara® yoga because of its inspiring heart-felt themes and strong alignment principals unique to this tantric lineage. Because of her studies with Anam Thubten—her Tibetan Buddhist teacher (who also teaches from a tantric lineage)—Anusara was very appealing.

Emily has been studying Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1999. She is a practitioner of Asian Bodywork and NAET and started teaching yoga in 2007 as a way to assist more people in their healing journey. She noticed that her body could maintain acupressure treatments longer when she was regularly doing yoga and wished for her clients to experience the same benefits.