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Emily Here & Now, Des Moines, IA (2025)

01/15/2022

Lavender & Chamomile Aromatherapy Eye Pillows now available on my website for $25 with free shipping!

These have a removable cover which can be washed in the washing machine!

Store in the freezer for a cool eye pillow, microwave for a warm pillow!

These are filled with organic dried lavender and chamomile. Super fragrant and calming :) if you need more fragrance, just squeeze the bag to break up with chamomile and lavender inside.

If you’re a friend, I’ll contact you if you’d prefer local drop off or pick up :)

Link to shop in my bio!

01/14/2022

Chaotic World (2022)
Mechanical Pencil on Paper // Newspaper on Canvas

This morning, Sage and I sat down to do some art. I’ve never drawn a portrait before. I just started drawing. I kept going until there she was, sitting right in front of me.

I didn’t use a reference, I did have someone in my mind that I was thinking of.

I just drew her, and when I finished that’s the first time I saw her. Like we were meeting for the first time.

I wondered what her deal was. She seemed sad. Tired and sad. Almost like she was holding back.

The words are a representation of her inner world, whoever she is.

Inspiration is so weird and so is art and so am I.

01/13/2022

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Embrace the shake.

Okay okay okay I HEARD YOU. My captions are too long.

I’ve got the “yeah I’m not reading that. Happy for you tho. Or sorry that happened” meme too many times.

Soooo I’m gonna be posting the breakdowns of my weekly class themes on my website. (I haven’t finished optimizing desktop, just mobile).

If you have enjoyed reading my long-winded inspirations, go to my website and click on “blog.”

Website is in my bio! www.emilyhereandnow.com

I’m not teaching this week, but I will be back next week!

12/19/2021

I try to only put professional//yoga stuff on my page. But my baby girl, Sage had her first dance recital today and she was a star!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

12/16/2021

I struggle with my body image. So sometimes you just gotta flip that $h!t upside down. It’s not about what my body looks like or what or weighs on the scale. I have to appreciate my body for all that it is and what it can do!

Join me for power tonight at 530 pm!

12/12/2021

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teachings of my soul.” -Rumi

I can’t tell you why you came to yoga. I can only tell you why I did. I wanted to heal.

Throughout my yoga practice I thought getting more entrenched in the ✨woo-woo ✨ that surrounds yoga would allow me more healing.

I took it very seriously. I did the crazy stuff. I sun-gazed in the morning (literally staring directly at the sun). I tried to decalcify my pineal gland by avoiding fluoride, going vegan, drinking only distilled water. I paid for psychics. I obsessed over astrology, life path numbers, law of attraction, synchronicity, etc etc etc.

I thought that going deeper into these alternative ideologies would bring me more peace and healing and ultimate closer to spiritual clarity and oneness with the universe.

This week, we are talking about Svadhyaya. The 5th of the Niyamas. It means self-study. It means put down the fu***ng books (the secret). Turn off the fu***ng YouTube videos (infinite waters). Stop looking OUTSIDE of you for answers. Stop waiting for the universe to give you signs. Stop waiting for God to slap you in the face with signs. Stop with Dr. Z and Medical Medium. Stop obsessively looking for someone ELSE to give you the answers and the permission you’re seeking.

Only you have the power to change your life. Only you can do that.

Self-study, is about sitting down, shutting up, and listening to your own thoughts, to your own feelings, observing your own experiences. To work through them, to understand them. Not for someone else to tell you what it means. Not for someone else to tell you what you should do.

Through yoga, we get into our bodies, we listen to our breath. We repeatedly hear “this is YOUR practice.”

You have the power. Have the discipline to do what you need to do to get what you want.

Have the courage to go for it, without the approval and permission of others.

Trust yourself. Love yourself. Set your life on fire.

12/05/2021

🔥 TAPAS 🔥

Tapas are the fire and passion inside of us that drive us to make progress, to succeed.

Tapas must be balanced with the other Niyamas. Sometimes we can tap so deep into our fire that we get over worked.

But sometimes we also ignore our passions and don’t put in the effort.

This week we will tap into tapas. Building our fire. Finding the drive to do what’s right even if you don’t want to.

We will let our internal fires burn. (And maybe our muscles too)

Come to class!

12/05/2021

🌞🌞 CLASSES THIS WEEK 🌞🌞

THURSDAY
Power 530
Restore 7

SATURDAY
Power 730 am

This week we are talking about TAPAS. Aka discipline. One of my favorite Niyamas and a sequence to support it!

Show up this week, do the work!

12/04/2021

🌞 SANTOSHA 🌞

I know, I know. I skipped a couple. I’ll get back to them.

This is the second of the Niyamas and means contentment. I’ve seen many interpretations of this one. Commonly I see that we need to abandon all desires.

I’m just gonna say that’s fu***ng bu****it. I once believed that and literally starved myself because I felt ridding myself of the desire for food would bring me spiritual clarity.

It’s not about resisting our desires. It’s about our relationship with our desires.

We can’t rely on those desires to make us happy. Or we will never be happy. As one desire is fulfilled, a new desire emerges. This is a good thing, we should always have something to look forward to and strive for in life.

What’s not good - is thinking “I’ll be happy when…” when I get the job, when I buy the watch, when I move away, when make more money, when I lose weight, blah blah blah. No. Your happiness and peace and contentment don’t have to hinge on any of those things.

You can be peaceful and happy wherever you are in life. Sure, some of those things make it easier. But you have the source of love and peace inside of you - you have to train yourself to feel it and access it whenever you need it.

Through yoga, we train body and brain and the same time. Slowly, little by little, we train our brains to access the fountain of joy.

Do the work, show up.

11/26/2021

A couple of my favorite photos from Angie + Brett’s wedding!

I’m available to book for photography 🌞

DM for rates and availability!

11/26/2021

It’s been a crazy couple of months!

But I’m still teaching!

Upcoming classes:
Thursday • Power • 530pm
Thursday • Restore • 7pm
Saturday • Power • 730 am

All at

Come see me as we cruise through the Niyamas!

10/20/2021

The Niyamas: coming soon to my classes!

The Niyamas, are the second limb in the 8 limbs of yoga.

Contrary to the Yamas, these are a guide for how we experience our INNER // INTERNAL worlds.

Stay tuned as I will explore these in depth each week, after I’ve completed the Yamas :)

10/19/2021

HELLO YOGIS!!!

It’s a fresh new week!

Here’s what I’m teaching:

Thursday:
Power @ 530 pm
Restore @ 7pm

Saturday:
Power @ 730 am
Hot @ 9 am
Restore @ 1030 am

This week we are talking about: BRAHMACHARYA

Brahmacharya at its core, is self control. How we regulate our energy.

This pose, wheel, requires quite a bit of self control. It’s a dangerous pose. It’s a vulnerable pose. We have to be prepared for this pose before we even attempt it.

Brahmacharya is a highly complex topic and I will be posting TWO posts regarding the depths of this topic this week. One will be the most controversial interpretation of this Yama: s*x. The second, will be my interpretation of this Yama that goes beyond s*x, and more into the details of how we can control our energy.

Stay tuned, and book a class!

*x *xeducation

10/19/2021

❤️‍🔥 Asteya ❤️‍🔥

Asteya is the 3rd of the yamas, in the first limb of the 8 limbs of yoga, recorded in the Yoga Sutras by patanjali.

Asteya, translated, means non-stealing.

Of course we can look at this in the most obvious way: do not take what does not belong to you. And your first thoughts probably come to tangible items.

But this goes beyond the obvious.

When we have the desire to take what is not ours, it usually stems from a feeling that we don’t have enough, or that we are not enough as we are. Through Asteya, we learn that we are complete as we are and we do not need to take to find completeness.

As commented on my previous post, we can take time away from others that does not belong to us.

We can also take away someone else’s positive energy when we dump all of our drama and problems onto them without being conscious of first asking: hey, I need to vent and I might be a little dramatic about it, but do you have the space and time to listen to me while I work through this?

It can mean stealing from yourself the opportunity to have downtime to replenish, by over committing to activities and projects.

On the mat, it can mean taking poses that aren’t meant for you. Yoga is a process and there is no way we can beat and force ourselves into poses. We must remember: ahimsa (non violence), satya (honesty), and Asteya (non stealing).

When we don’t fully understand ourselves and our bodies it’s easy to let our egos take over and want to do it all - but you are stealing from yourself the chance to grow at a healthy rate.

Yoga is a slow evolution of mind, body, and soul. Your body knows what is meant for you. Don’t take poses or mantras that aren’t for you.

When you radiate the wholeness within you, you realize that there is nothing to take. You have arrived in completeness. You are complete.

10/18/2021

I haven’t made my Asteya post yet from this weeks classes, but I definitely will.

I didn’t practice what I preached all week. I took on more than I could handle and when I slowed down to rest I didn’t truly let myself rest. I felt guilty for taking rest.

But yoga both on an off the mat is a practice. It’s never black or white, it’s never a smooth path.

It’s complex, intricate and more like a web than a path.

I continue to learn. I am still a student.

Be back soon when I have more brain power to write about Asteya :)

10/14/2021

Tomorrow is the first day of me shoving another Yama down your throat while you tremble in a strong hold and sweat bullets onto the mat.

We are talking Asteya (non-stealing) this week.

Before I give you all my thoughts, I want to hear yours.

What is a way you can practice non-stealing?

Think beyond the obvious of not taking tangible items that don’t belong to you.

Tell me what you think!

10/11/2021

My soul leaving my body when someone tells me they aren’t flexible enough to go to yoga ❤️‍🔥

There are no pre-requisites to taking a yoga class. You can be inflexible, you can be large, you can be small, you can be he/she/they, you can be black/white/brown/green, you can anything you like.

You just have to be open to be disciplined and ready to breathe.

There’s no overnight changes. There’s only you, showing up for yourself, time and time again.

My classes this week:

Thursday:
530 PM Power
7 PM Restore

Saturday:
730 AM Power
9 AM Hot

All at

Let’s talk Asteya this week 🫁🧠🫀

10/09/2021

🌞SATYA🌞

This week in class, we talked about satya. The second Yama in the first limb of yoga, written in patanjalis yoga sutras over 2,000 years ago. They’re a guidance for how we can live a moral life. And the yamas are for how we interact with our outer world.

On the surface, it’s easy to interpret. Satya means honesty. We should be honest or truthful while still behaving in alignment with Ahimsa (non-violence)

Being truthful and honest goes a lot further than just not telling lies. It means we be honest with ourselves. We can’t be honest with others until we are honest with ourselves.

It means that we take the time to contemplate and listen. So we can be aware of and listen to our true inner selves. Not our inner critics, not our egos, ourselves.

It also means we must seek the truth in what we perceive in our worlds. Before we start to criticize ourselves in comparison to an Instagram post, we have to remember that what we see on the screen in our phones is not reality. It’s the end product of a beautifully curated image with the right angles and right filters. We don’t see the 80 images on the camera roll that it took to get the perfect shot.

It means that we trust those who are more qualified than us to tell us the truth. It means we validate rumors before we spread them.

Move with love ❤️‍🔥
Move with integrity ⚖️

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