Since 2002 Emily Hightower has applied yoga movement, breath skills and mindset training to support people with all manner of physical and cognitive challenges including amputations, paralysis, visual impairment, auditory impairment, traumatic brain injury, burn survivors, blast trauma survivors and chronic stress/anxiety/depression/insomnia. She works year-round with Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities (CAMO) supporting veterans and their spouses and caregivers with Intrinsic Skills.

Emily does not think of adaptive therapies as using ‘modifications’. All bodies are either in alignment and using optimal movement patterns, or not, and there is no where to ‘get to’ in yoga or life, other than the aware, present moment. Emily applies the principles of mechanics, expert use of props including blocks, bolsters, straps and yoga wall traction when needed, and the physiology of breath to help all bodies achieve presence, power and progress.

Learn more and support CAMO : emily@intrinsicway.com

Emily also supports patients at Roaring Fork Neurology where she works with auto immune conditions like ALS, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis as well as traumatic brain and spinal injury, chronic migraines, cancer, chronic anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive issues like Chron’s and IBS, and adrenal fatigue. Services begin with an intake session to assess needs, and programs from there may include somatic embodied movement, restorative yoga, yoga nidra sleep therapy, integrative nutrition, meditation, breath work, and biofeedback.