Health, Healing, Education
with Emma B
Emma B — Somatic, Relational & Community-Based Healing Pathways
I’m Emma B — practitioner, educator and co-founder of the GrowFree Community.
My work supports people to reconnect with their innate capacity for healing, growth and relationship — through the body, through awareness, and through the environments we are part of.
Many of the people drawn to this work are thoughtful, capable and deeply caring — yet find themselves exhausted, stuck in recurring patterns, struggling in relationships, disconnected from themselves, or unable to fully thrive despite “doing all the right things.”
Sometimes this shows up as burnout, anxiety, overwhelm, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, relationship difficulties, creative blocks, chronic stress, exhaustion or a loss of meaning and direction.
Often these patterns relate to nervous system overwhelm, early attachment experiences, relational stress, developmental trauma, intergenerational patterning, or long-held survival responses within the body.
My work supports people to move from survival, over-adaptation and disconnection toward greater regulation, authenticity, creativity, connection and belonging.
My Approach — Body, Relationship, Nature & Community
Over the past 15+ years, my practice has evolved through a foundation in traditional yoga teaching and therapy in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya, alongside a degree in Anthropology exploring cultures of health and healing.
Since 2015, I have deepened into trauma, attachment and somatic work, alongside neuroscience and indigenous wisdom traditions.
My approach is integrative, intuitive and relational. I weave together somatic inquiry, movement and breath, nervous system education, relational awareness, nature connection and attentional practices that support people to work with deep patterns held within the body and psyche.
At the heart of this work is a simple orientation:
Much of what we seek to “fix” is already whole beneath layers of experience — and with the right support, those pathways can re-open.
This work is not about becoming someone else. It is about creating the conditions for greater safety, responsiveness, aliveness and self-trust.
Why I Created These Pathways
Over time, I recognised that meaningful change rarely happens through isolated appointments alone.
While focused 1–1 support can be powerful, many people also need:
- Ongoing integration
- Consistent reminders and practices
- Relational support
- Safe community spaces
- Opportunities for co-regulation and belonging
This understanding led me to create pathways that extend beyond or out with 1-1 session space.
Alongside 1–1 work, I offer:
- Fight, Flight, Freeze & Me Course (FFF&Me)
- Peer Sanctuary sessions
- Group spaces and seasonal gatherings
- Somatic movement and dance-based sessions
- Nature-based workshops and community experiences
These pathways are designed to support people not only to understand themselves more deeply, but to gradually reconnect with life, creativity, relationship and community.
The GrowFree Community
I am a co-founder of the GrowFree Community — a co-operatively run and evolving ecosystem of practitioners, families and peers exploring new ways of living, learning and growing together.
GrowFree brings together nervous system awareness, relationship, nature connection, community and practical everyday living.
We create spaces that reconnect people with themselves, each other, and the more-than-human world through:
- Seasonal gatherings
- Land-based projects
- Courses and workshops
- Peer support spaces
- Creative and embodied practices
- Family and intergenerational experiences
At the centre of this work is a belief that healing and growth are deeply relational — and that safe, reciprocal community is an important part of human wellbeing.
Movement, Creativity & Expanded Awareness
Alongside therapeutic and educational work, I also hold movement and dance-based spaces that invite both depth and lightness.
These spaces support people to meet challenge, emotion and shadow material with greater capacity, while also reconnecting with creativity, expression, joy and more subtle states of awareness.
My work is grounded, but not heavy.
I value humour, honesty and humanity alongside depth — and I increasingly bring this into spaces for children, young people and families, supporting co-regulation, resilience and relational awareness from early life.
Lived Experience
I am also a mother, and much of what I teach is lived.
My work has been shaped not only through training and study, but through my own experience of navigating teenage-early adult addiction and depression, reactivity, relationship, repair, nervous system healing and becoming more authentically and powerfully me.
This continues to inform how I support both adults and families to understand themselves with greater compassion, awareness and responsiveness.
Across Everything I Offer
Whether through 1–1 work, courses, movement spaces or community gatherings, the intention remains the same:
To support people to come back into relationship with themselves, each other and the wider field of life — in ways that are more free, responsive and alive. In ways that are innate and not completely forgotten within us.
