Meet Emily Peterson
Emily is a medicine carrier and bridge between ancient pathways and modern healing, supporting people in reconnecting to their inner clarity, sovereignty, and truth. She is a modern temple guide—walking between worlds, tending the unseen, and helping others rekindle the sacred intelligence of their soul and body.
We are born as divine beings—soft, open, connected to the unseen. Then life, in all its beauty and brutality, teaches us to harden. We build psychic and somatic armor to survive what the soul was never meant to hold alone.
My work moves from the ancient to the modern.
It is shaped by shamanic lineages, ritual arts, elemental intelligence, and the geometry of the subtle body. These are mirrored and supported by somatic science and the nervous system’s wisdom—but the heart of the work is older than language.
Through Yin, energy healing, ceremony, and water-based practices, we co-create a field where the old armor can soften, the original blueprint can re-emerge, and sovereignty becomes embodied—not conceptual.
This is the path of remembering who you are beneath the layers: sacred, whole, free, and guided from within.
- Emily
Emily’s approach to healing and teaching begins with the truth that the body and spirit are not separate—they are one continuum of intelligence, and it is through this union that healing, clarity, and peace arise. She creates spaces where people can feel, sense, remember, and transform… and where joy, awe, and genuine self-connection have room to return.
Her work is deeply informed by her understanding of trauma, the adaptive brilliance of the nervous system, and the possibility of post-traumatic growth. She honors how our systems are shaped by lineage, birth, environment, relationship, and culture—and how these forces create both our armoring and our resilience. Her approach blends ancient energetic pathways with somatic awareness, offering a grounded and compassionate way to meet what the body has carried.
Emily’s healing path began at sixteen, when her mother brought her to a shaman who recognized in her a sensitivity to energy and the unseen. That early encounter opened a lifelong path of remembering, training, and walking between worlds.
Emily’s own healing journey continues to shape her work. More than twenty years ago, she turned to yoga to manage chronic pain from her years as a competitive volleyball athlete. What began as injury management became a doorway into embodiment, teaching her how to care for her body beyond achievement or performance. Yoga and somatic practice became central to her recovery from an eating disorder, depression, substance use, and trauma—offering her a safe way back into her body, breath, and presence.
Today, she brings those lived understandings to others, guiding people toward a more compassionate relationship with themselves, the softening of old armoring, and the remembrance of their own sacred essence.
Expertise & Certifications
Mistress of the Craft - The Way of the Heart Shamanism (Sarita Sol)
Shamanic Usui/Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master Teacher trained by Heather Smidt and William Lee Rand
500-hour RYT yoga instructor
YIN yoga teacher trained by Sarah Powers (Insight Yoga) and others.
Creator of The Way of the Waters Yin Yoga Training
Access Conciousness® Bars Practioner
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