Hi friends

Welcome to Soulful Wellness with Emma

My name's Emma – I’m an Occupational Therapist, Yoga teacher and explorer of all things soulful and seasonal.

I live and work in rural Shrewsbury with my fiancé Charlie, and our cat Osric.

Alongside being an Occupational Therapist in the NHS which involves supporting people to navigate changes to their health and wellbeing so that they can continue to engage in things which are meaningful to them, I have grown a local business called Soulful Wellness with Emma which is centred on my two greatest loves – community and connection.

‘Soulful Wellness with Emma’ reflects the breadth of wellness practices which I enjoy partaking in and sharing with others. I'm fascinated with seasonal, cyclical living and it never ceases to amaze me how something that is so innate, so familiar to us as humans, has increasingly become lost to so many of us. Let the uphill struggle make way for living which accommodates and celebrates the ebb and flow of our tidal nature as women and more broadly as humans.

I teach Yoga, Qigong and Meditation locally and also host monthly events based on the lunar cycle. Around the full moon I host a Yoga Flow and Cacao Ceremony and near to the New Moon, I host a Women’s Circle, known as Soul Sangha. I also greatly enjoy sharing seasonal day retreats throughout the year under the title of 'Soil & Soul'. Each retreat day weaves together various practices and themes based on the seasons, and I like to invite other local folk who have a passion for soulful living to share their interests with us too.

At my core and embedded in my values is a deep longing for community. For spaces where people feel safe and free to be witnessed without judgement, inspired to be curious and playful and invited to continually learn more about ourselves, our passions and our purpose so that we can nurture those aspects of ourselves.

As an OT my role is to support people through difficulty, injury or ill health to understand the healing power of meaningful, purposeful activity - essentially encouraging and enabling us to do more of what makes us feel well, happy and healthy. This is also reflected in my business and my mission is to continually deepen my knowledge about wellbeing practices and to share these practices within our communities.

With each passing year I'm becoming increasingly aware of my deep rooted love and connection with nature. Nothing brings me back into my body and a state of presence than the feeling of awe which nature provides us. In everything I do, I seek to deepen our relationship with mother nature’s cycles and in turn, our own innate rhythms.