Long before Sanctuary Yoga & Wellness existed, I built businesses that allowed me to travel the world with my children, and I was living at full speed. I launched my first business at 22, a sports and nutrition business, and then moved into a sports clothing line, working internationally and learning everything I could about wellness, performance, and what it means to thrive in a fast-paced life. I was passionate, driven, and deeply curious about human potential.
Then in 2015, everything stopped.
Four words changed my life forever. Your daughter has cancer. Megan, my beautiful girl, had been diagnosed, and the woman who had spent years helping others find strength suddenly had to find her own. In 2019, I lost Megan. And in losing her, I lost the version of myself I had known.
What came next took everything I had; I dug deep. There were moments of real darkness, moments when I didn't want to be here. I say that not for sympathy, I want to let you know that I understand what it feels like to be at rock bottom. I am not someone who has read about rock bottom in a book. I have lived it.
The turning point came in the midst of my grief, one morning I was doing a breathwork session with Joe Dispenza online. My whole body started to release. Something inside me woke up, and I followed my inner guidance, training first as a crystal healer, then in Reiki (later a Reiki Master), then in yoga, and now in holistic massage. Each layer of learning was also a layer of healing. When I flew to Ibiza to work on my first retreat, I felt at home, and knew this was what I was here to do.
A true karmic exchange of energy and Sanctuary Yoga & Wellness was built from all of it: the joy, the grief, the rebuilding, the new life after Megan.
Today, I live in Wales with my wonderful partner, Dan and my dog Maverick, and I wake up most mornings with a coffee in hand, sitting in the quiet, feeling grateful. I think of Megan every day. Everything I do is threaded with her light, and keeping that light alive in the world is what gets me out of bed with purpose.
I am a Virgo through and through, creative, particular, always fermenting something in the kitchen or making a new potion, feeding people because that is my love language. My greatest pride in life is that I get to watch my son live his life, and it fills me with so much joy. He is my hero. I find my peace in nature, in my garden, in the simple moments that remind me that being alive is a gift.
This is me, Emma, the woman you work with when you come to Sanctuary Yoga & Wellness.
I have spent over two decades in wellness and coaching, working with women through life transitions, business pivots, grief, identity loss, and the people pleasing of giving to everyone and leaving nothing for yourself. I hold a Master's degree in Psychology with a focus on impostor syndrome in women. I am a published author, podcast host, Reiki practitioner and trainer, yoga teacher, and holistic therapist.
But more than anything, I am someone who has done her own work and keeps doing it.
When you work with me, you will feel safe. Safe enough to sit with what's really there, even if you don't have words for it yet.
We move slowly, gently, and with intention, and we start to unravel the blocks that have kept you small, sitting with what surfaces, and then, when you're ready, you will start to build something new. Something that is entirely and unapologetically yours.
You don't need to have it together to begin. You need to show up.
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