Emily’s Story

From the moment Emily was born it was clear that she was a gentle and tender soul. With her blonde curls and observant blue eyes, she looked and floated through life in an almost angelic way. Her vivid imagination and peaceful nature made it easy to take her everywhere. 

As she grew, she held onto her sense of innocence and wonder. 

Emily was committed to experiencing the wonders of life on a daily basis. She’d always manage to find a trail where she could sit down and listen to the trees, or a patch of grass to quickly kick off her shoes and feel the earth. While living in Laguna, she swam in the ocean nearly every day, excitedly calling us on the regular to share a new miraculous story of early morning ocean time. 

She loved to sing and make music. She practiced ukulele on the regular, and more recently found freedom in freestyle music jams where she could practice her confidence and her improvisational power.

She practiced meditation, finding incredible transformation and presence through breathwork and mindfulness. Emily loved to explore the depths of spirituality, fascinated with worlds of angels and ancestors and the journeys of our souls. 

But above all, Emily’s spirit rejoiced in dance. Whether she was dancing under a sunset on the beach, or on the streets of Los Angeles––whether contemporary, hip-hop, or contact dance––she danced with both gentle tenderness and remarkable fierceness.  She found extraordinary personal transformation during her many years of dance classes, and then also brought these lessons to her students––empowering so many students of all ages to claim their space in this world and declare their presence.