Hi, I’m Emily!
For nearly 20 years I’ve called the jungles of Bali home. The barefoot rhythm, local mysticism, and community here have shaped me as much as yoga itself.
My path with yoga began in my late teens, when practice opened profound shifts in body, breath, and awareness. After a radical shift in consciousness while studying in Santa Barbara, California, I moved to Bali in my early twenties in 2007, arriving just as the Yoga Barn and Bali Spirit Festival were being born. I became part of that community as a teacher and curator, and later founded High Vibe Yoga, offering retreats and trainings around the world.
Over time my teaching evolved. Women’s SelfCare and Women’s Circles opened into larger inquiries on the thresholds of life. I began teaching through the gateways of sex, death, and wealth, not as taboos, but as potent forces of creativity, transformation, and freedom. These became the ground of my 300-hour Yoga of Sex, Death & Wealth training.
The pandemic years brought a personal turning: the sovereign birth of my daughter and a deeper devotion to community, mystery, and embodiment. Yoga Nidra came to the center of my work, offering rest and repair for the nervous system and healing for trauma, grief, and exhaustion.
Today I share classes, trainings, and retreats in Bali and internationally through Field of Origins, a living school of embodiment, devotion, and community.
When I’m not teaching, you’ll find me with my daughter, dancing, singing, cooking from the farm, or on long road trips with friends.