EMILY SHEARER

 

Emily Shearer is a poet, fiction writer and essayist, as well as Reiki Master, naïf intuitive artiste and Chaos Witch. If you've known her for a while, it won't surprise you to hear that she is still (and maybe forever?) exploring the weight of the word “home”.  A native of Hendersonville, NC, after time spent in France, Virginia, Texas, and the Czech Republic, she finally moved back to Tar Heel Country in 2024. Her bio will tell you that her poems have been nominated for a handful of illustrious prizes and printed or appeared digitally in lots and lots of publications.  What it won't tell you is that she listens to music through her hands. She can call to owls in the night and ancestors on Irish hillsides and lakeshores. She completes the New York Times crossword so fast, she'll be done and on the yoga mat with a cacao latte and a stack of ironed cloth napkins before you can even find a pencil.  She was featured in the inaugural issue of Minerva Rising, an independent literary journal where she served for four years as the Poetry Editor.  She taught French, English, yoga and mindfulness at fusion academy in The Woodlands, TX and led seminars and Yoga Church at saha yoga and wellness house in Tomball, TX. In her home creative space, Lotus Studios, she can be found writing, painting, and fiddlefarting, occasionally working with clients on book development, administering Reiki and healing arts, reading Tarot, and engaging in therapeutic brownie consumption.  She offers private yoga sessions, energetic healing, forest bathing, ministerial services, and her trademark Yoga for Creative Types workshops at her residence and elsewhere in the Chapel Hill area. 

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