SESSION WORK TESTIMONIALS

"I started my journey with Emily to improve my uterine prolapse and, after only a few meetings, not only has the prolapse been resolved but  my general health is much improved. Emily is exceptional. She and her wonderful studio are welcoming, warm and cosy. She listens deeply to your background to support you, teach you how to feel your body and work with it as in a team. I already recommended Emily to my friends and they are also really impressed." - VS

“I went to visit Emily in a desperate bid to get my breech baby to turn. I entered her healing space frustrated, scared and anxious about my situation - Emily welcomed me with a wonderfully calm manor, she listened to my story, made me feel safe and at peace with myself and the treatment I was about to receive. After only two sessions with Emily, my breech baby re-positioned herself into the correct position for birth. I have absolutely no doubt that the moxibustion and craniosacral therapy that Emily treated me with was the reason for my baby moving. I would highly recommend Emily's work - and I will be spreading the word that women need to try these two therapies before options for an ECV or more drastic measures! I wholeheartedly believe that Emily is the reason I got the natural, home birth I longed for.” - Anonymous

“After my appointment 'I noticed a powerful shift in my perception of my pregnancy - the note I wrote to myself said, 'my feeling and my visualization of this presence in my body has shifted - from fragile, delicate and precarious to ferocious, powerful, tidal; a life-force in my belly'. I've been carrying that visualization with me since, and I find it deeply soothing.” - Anonymous

“After a forceps birth, my pelvic floor had weakened considerably to the point where I had been referred to an NHS physio. After multiple sessions and the use of a pelvic floor electrical stimulator every day for 3 months, there was no improvement and I was so disillusioned with it all, that I stopped trying. I was told I had an ‘unresponsive pelvic floor’ and it was unlikely to improve!

I came to Emily for help conceiving a second child as that was not happening after 2 years of trying. My sessions with Emily have allowed me to move and feel my pelvic floor for the first time ever!!

We worked with Acupuncture and Craniosacral therapy and breathing and visualization techniques and on the 2nd session I could feel my pelvic floor move! This is a huge deal for me!

Emily is very kind, gentle and easy to open up to. I really enjoyed sharing with her during the sessions around a previous loss and how I felt about pregnancy and birth. My outlook has been changed and I don’t dread pregnancy again if it ever happens for me. I feel empowered and so glad that I met Emily and would recommend her 100% to anyone for any reason. I don’t know how it works but I believe that it does.” - Carol, 2022

Breath and Pelvis Workshop Reflections

“Emily is a profound mentor, example and guide on this journey into deeper connection with our innermost body. The knowledge she imparts about our physiology is evidence based but the awareness she engenders is intuitive. She has a magical way of drawing out and honouring the embodied wisdom each person already possesses, rather than seeking to impose it from the outside, so that learning from her feels like rediscovering something you knew all along but wanted to be reminded of. In her groups, she creates a grounded, nourishing environment where I felt truly comfortable, at rest and able to be myself - a perfect atmosphere for discovery and exploration. I took away from this workshop some very practical exercises to use in daily practice, but also an experience of the difference they make, so that I am actually inclined to incorporate them into my everyday life. The sense of a greater aliveness, connection and harmony has remained with me. I’m sure the world would be an even better place to live if everyone had the chance to learn these skills from Emily.” - Laura, 2023

preparing for the Fourth trimester WORKSHOP REFLECTIONS

“I am writing this from bed.  Its day 17 of my fourth trimester. A year ago I had never even heard of these words and I can’t believe the change they have brought into my life.

The Fourth Trimester Workshop is THE best gift you will ever ever give yourself as a mum to be. As I am writing this, I’m imagining what my pregnancy and first 2 weeks would have been like if I hadn’t been supported by Emily and the wisdom contained within The ​Preparing for the Fourth Trimester workshop and Kimberly's book. 

It makes me instantly remember my last post partum experience; the cold isolation of those first nights, the doubts, the endless tea, sugary cake, anything to keep me up and awake but most of all the sense of being lost but not having a voice to ask for help. Not even knowing what help I needed.  

7 years ago I had limped out of hospital and drove straight to the shops- into the harsh lights of the supermarket- wanting to show the world I hadn’t changed- life could go on as usual. I remember walking in a daze for months and months, out of my body, disconnected, exhausted. I had very limited support from family and my mum had died at age 17, I felt I had no-one to talk to about how to become a mother. 

My experience of becoming a mum the second time around has been completely transformed by my decision to be guided by Emily's knowledge of the fourth trimester and the treasure chest of facts, advice, tips, and sumptuous inspiration for how to live life postpartum that goes against everything I had previously learned from western society.

What’s been different this time? I chose to have two women present at the birth who held the space for me and my family, who cleaned my body after birth, cooked bone broth, cleaned my kitchen. I rested in bed for 5 days - being brought food, herbal teas, and treats from suggested recipes which support postpartum healing. I limited visitors, bathed in healing herbs, limited my use of social media so I could bathe in the sublime and fleeting moments that are shared between newborn and mum. My friend set up a meal train and people dropped food off for my family - and so it continues.. Most mornings resting in bed which I will continue until the end of 40 days. I have spent time thinking about how to support my relationship with my partner postpartum, which wise women I need to call in and how I can gently bring healing back to my body.

As someone who has felt in a permanent state of busyness, meetings, and rushing to and from appointments, the change I have committed to is monumental and I feel is going to continue to change my life in many ways.

I have learned that asking for help is not weakness and receiving help without the feeling I need to give back straight away is fully allowed - this has been a transformative lesson for me about giving. The fourth trimester has also shown me the awesome and restorative power of community support. I can’t wait to support my women friends postpartum now I know exactly how to help!

I am writing this on day 17 postpartum, and thanks to this workshop and the guidance of Emily, I have found my voice as a new mum who is worth all the support and love in the world to help me give all I need to give to my brand new son.  The Fourth Trimester book (by Kimberly Johnson) is by my bed and I am still learning about the many lessons from around the world where women are tended to postpartum in the way all women deserve to be. I can’t believe this knowledge isn’t shared in ante natal classes or by midwives - it just makes so much sense now. 

Thank you so deeply Emily, for being such a pioneer of this work over in the U.K. What you are offering to women is a sacred awakening and a returning to our instincts as women to mother and be mothered.”

Online zoom session reflections

“I had my first online session with Emily this week, and I was amazed and overjoyed to find how effective the treatment was, even without physical contact. With Emily's expert guidance I was able to access sensation in new ways and release muscular tension, harnessing my body's own capacity to heal, far beyond what I could achieve alone. I ended the session feeling very calm, cared for and confident, and muscles which had been tense now felt warm and open. I feel very lucky to be working with Emily, and I feel I can trust her entirely.” - Hinny, 2021