We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Emily Werner. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Emily below.

Alright, Emily thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with a story that highlights an important way in which your brand diverges from the industry standard.

The wellness industry intends to provide healing and optimal experiences to individuals seeking a healthier and longer life. Most wellness practitioners and centers are not aware of the impact that the lighting has on the wellbeing of their staff, themselves and their clients. Living Wild prioritizes creating spaces that truly are optimal for people to be in. Artificial lighting, television screens, and water containing fluoride exist in a large majority of wellness centers (including gyms, yoga studios, individual healers, large wellness retreats.) At any Living Wild experience, the lighting is natural with candles, fire’s, red light and if necessary eddison bulbs. This ensures our client’s hormones and circadian rhythm are functioning optimally. By placing intention on the lighting environment of our space, we create a healing, relaxing energy to assist in the regulation of our client’s nervous system. We limit the amount of technology to ensure there is low radiation in the area. The water we serve for drinking, as well as that the attendees bathe in, is full of natural minerals to ensure proper hydration and healing of the largest organ on the body, the skin. What separates Living Wild from any other wellness company, is that we examine the environment’s we choose to be in to ensure they are healing for ourselves, our staff, and our clients.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Emily Werner is the co-creator of Living Wild. She studies human longevity and happiness and how it relates to the cycles around and within us. Living Wild connects people back to themselves, others and nature through private experiences, community ceremonies, education and online resources. You can learn more on our webpage www.livingwild.me

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

As an Aires and a driven individual, a lesson I had to unlearn was overworking and pushing past my capacity to perform. As a female, I was not taught the four phases of my cycle and how these correlate to every aspect of my being. From age 14 to my early 20’s, I disregarded the signals my body was telling me in order to complete unrealistic expectations I set for myself. After studying the female physiology and the cycles of the moon, I gained awareness of how powerful these four phases are for young women. I now understand and am empowered energetically and physically to follow these cycles and shift my lifestyle (how I eat, what tasks I complete, how much I socialize, etc) accordingly. I am in control of aligning my business and calendar with my cycle to ensure I am honoring my body.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

At the age of eighteen I had open heart surgery. This experience impacted each fractal of myself and how I perceive the world and living. It made me resilient to know I can conquer anything I put my mind, heart and soul toward. My sternum was cut in half and most of my ribs were broke. My heart was connected to a machine keeping me alive while the surgeon cut into my heart to repair a rare condition. I physically felt large amounts of pain upon waking in the ICU. My body is resilient and so is my spirit. I cherish each day and my heart will never limit any area of my life.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.livingwild.me/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingwild.me/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Livingwildchannel/videos
• Other: Podcast Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/782AdLbqhNxeAFWayMWYSM?si=377c453188cb4350&nd=1&dlsi=f11717380a8e439a

Image Credits
Westmoon Media, Kristina Pearl Photography and Davin Lee