I’m Emma, the woman behind Her Wild Body.
I’m interested in how we learn to understand our bodies, how we come to trust our own experiences, and what happens when we have the knowledge and freedom to explore parts of ourselves that we were never really taught about. For me, that includes the physical body, our internal sensations, the female pelvis, sensuality, pleasure and sexuality. These are part of what it means to be human, and yet so much of our experience remains unexplored or misunderstood.
Her Wild Body is a space for that exploration.
My journey back to the body
I wasn’t always at home in myself. As a child, I was wild, free and deeply connected to my body and the world around me. Over time, like many women, I absorbed messages that taught me to shrink, doubt myself and override what I felt.
By adulthood, I was carrying a persistent anxiety that had become so familiar I barely questioned it.
Finding my way back to myself wasn’t a single moment of transformation. It involved years of exploration, learning and gradually developing a different relationship with my body. I found yoga over 25 years ago, and it became a doorway into sensation, presence and a way of relating to myself that went beyond thinking alone. I began teaching 12 years ago, and alongside this I spent 16 years working with thousands of bodies as a massage therapist.
Those experiences have given me a deep respect for the complexity of the human body and the different ways we experience it, and they have also left me with questions that continue to fascinate me. How do we learn to recognise our own bodily signals? What helps us understand our individual patterns? How much of what we believe about our bodies comes from our own experience, and how much have we simply been taught to accept? And why are so many women left to figure out important aspects of their own bodies, pleasure and sexuality for themselves?
Why Body Literacy?
I believe women deserve opportunities to understand their bodies beyond the basics, to learn about internal sensations, become familiar with our own patterns and develop the discernment to interpret our experiences in context.
We also deserve space to explore sensuality, pleasure and sexuality without being told what we should want, how we should feel or what our experiences ought to look like. This is not to say the body always knows best, or that every physical experience can be explained through intuition. Sometimes we need medical knowledge, professional support or a different perspective, but we also need to remain curious.
I love bringing these different ways of understanding together: embodied experience, evidence-informed knowledge and the freedom to ask better questions. My work draws on my professional experience in bodywork and yoga, my exploration of somatic embodiment and sensuality, and my ongoing learning about the body.
I am not a clinician. My work is educational and experiential rather than diagnostic or therapeutic, and I aim to be clear about the boundaries of my knowledge and practice.
A life that changes us
In 2023, just as Her Wild Body was beginning to take shape, my Mum died suddenly.
Her death changed my life in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. Grief brought a profound reorientation of self and made me question what matters, who I am and how I want to live. The experience has deepened my understanding of how much our relationship with ourselves can change throughout our lives, and has strengthened my desire to live with greater honesty and curiosity, and to make room for the things that matter to me.
What you’ll find here
Through educational writing, resources and body-based practices, I explore:
- Body Literacy: learning to notice, interpret and respond to the body’s signals.
- Women’s bodies: developing a deeper understanding of our physical and sensory experiences.
- Pleasure and sexuality: exploring desire, sensuality and solo sexuality with curiosity rather than prescription.
- Self-trust and discernment: becoming more informed about our own experiences and choices.
I’m glad you’re here.
If you would like to explore working with me get in touch by email: emma@herwildbody.com
