Yoga Pranayama In Western Fitness & Healing with Emily Hightower

Ed Harrold and Emily Hightower share their background in Yoga Pranayama studies and explore the opportunities and challenges of breath skills becoming mainstream in the West. 

Emily Hightower was initially trained in Pranayama Yoga by Deborah Koehn and furthered her studies with many Master Teachers over the last 20 years including Ed Harrold, who gave Breath AS Medicine training to Emily and her husband on extensive weekend stays at their studio in Carbondale, CO. 

Emily began her career on a Mountain Ambulance Service as a Wilderness EMT where breath physiology played an integral role in patient diagnosis and care. Ed and Em share a love of cold plunging in wild mountain water and talk about healing from trauma by using a combination of breath, outdoor supported risk, and the power of pranayama to cultivate presence.

About Emily Hightower

Founder of Intrinsic and Educator at SH//FT 

Emily Hightower faced severe traumas as a teenager including her mom's traumatic brain injury and her dad's suicide. At risk in her teens, she found a healthy outlet in the outdoors and spent her 20's chasing rivers, powder, and working as a wilderness EMT. In 2001 she discovered pranayama yoga and has trained in the healing arts ever since. She has dedicated 20 years and over 15,000 contact hours of teaching intrinsic skills like advanced breathwork, meditation, somatic yoga, and real food nutrition with people at their own edge of capacity and healing. With SH//FT she found a team that shares her language around stress physiology, performance, and trauma healing. There she hosts her Skill of Stress breath and physiology course, monthly webinars, daily training support, and private coaching. Emily works with combat veterans groups in the US and abroad. She coaches Team SOCOM's Adaptive Care Unit and has trained active duty, front lines EMS services, substance recovery groups, and athletes. She has worked in a neurology clinic and lives to find the root causes behind modern dis-ease. She blends her Western Medical background with her Eastern Healing Arts training and sees no distinction between healing and performance. 

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Learn From Emily Hightower

Skill of Stress online course, N = 1 Live Workshops, Neuro Nidra offerings at SH//FT