Emily’s training and certifications include:

• Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance

• Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certified Practitioner

• Prenatal and Youth Yoga Ed Certified

• Thai Yoga Massage for Adaptive Yoga Certified

• Yoga Nidra Certified Teacher

• Holistic Health Coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition

• Embodied Movement for Trauma Teacher

• Breath as Medicine Certified

• Bio and Neurofeedback Certified Specialist

• former Wilderness EMT and Wilderness First Responder

• Whitewater Kayak Level IV Instructor with Swiftwater Rescue

Emily Hightower is a Resilience Coach who helps high performers with chronic stress exposure to become steady, empowered, rested, and ready.

From 2022 to 2025 Emily was a partner at SH//FT with Brian MacKenzie and offered Behavioral Health programs for Dr. Andy Galpin and the Rapid Health Optimization Teams. There she also ran her Skill of Stress program in live events for fire, military, and law enforcement groups through Open Water. She has recently left SH//FT to be the Onsite Manager for Three Meadows Ranch with her family.

As a mountain medic and whitewater guide in the 1990’s, she developed abilities to work with people under pressure in extreme environments. She took river guiding and outdoor medicine into a leadership role as Education Director for the Headwaters Institute the funding for which collapsed in the wake of the '9-11' attack. She adapted to the abrupt changes in her career by channeling her energy into learning everything she could about human potential and healing. Intrinsic is the evolved edition of her practice. She is passionate about serving those on our front lines in the EMS, Fire, military, and combat veterans as well as high-level performers such as athletes and entrepreneurs.

Emily has shared over 16,500 hours of contact time as a somatic yoga teacher and medicinal breath coach. She has advanced studies in yoga, adaptive Thai Yoga, Biofeedback, Breath as Medicine, Neuro Somatic Intelligence, and Integrative Nutrition. She is also a Level IV whitewater kayak teacher, bow hunter, and avid skier. Emily ensures an integrative, science-based approach informs all of her offerings.

Emily coaches evidence-based Intrinsic Skills to wounded veterans year-round with Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities (CAMO) and has clients ranging from the United States Special Operations Command, The Aspen Fire Department, elite and amateur athletes, recovery groups, and neurology patients.