Welcome.

I'm Audrey, the founder of Embodied Living. Drawing upon a lifetime of studies, practices and habits both ancient and modern, I created a coherent platform through which these transformative teachings can ripple out to help others heal, grow and transform as well. 

Before this, I spent most of my life training in the performing arts. While my path has veered away from that industry, my training as an artist deeply informs what I do today. Art is another powerful form of medicine, where we can breathe life into our inner creativity, channel our pain constructively, and bridge the gap between inner and outer worlds.

There’s no question that your path is yours to walk and you have no idea where it will lead. While the work I do now seems like it couldn’t be farther from where I began, the truth is that where I was directly informs where I am now.

That said, it's been quite the journey to get here. I founded Embodied Living in 2021 after a decade of soul searching. While I had developed a dedicated yoga practice and teaching practice, it still wasn't enough. I couldn't fully engage in that industry without diving deeper.

Like most 23 year olds, I was lost in the sauce and desperately trying to figure it all out.

After a slew of survival and placeholder jobs throughout my twenties, moving around New England and trying to find what felt like home, I finally landed smack in the middle of the pandemic, isolated in a cottage on a lake in Shrewsbury, MA. It took many repetitive cycles of inner child trauma healing, chronic injuries, reproductive health issues, and dysfunctional relationships throughout this decade before I was ready to face myself, clear the stuck-ness and own my work, my worth, my truth and my power. Not to mention, I was also desperately sick of the system, the corporate system, the medical system, and the greater culture that disempowers so many people in so many ways. I was awakening to many truths about myself reflected in the world around me. As I healed my own personal issues, it was becoming an increasingly obvious responsibility to share that with others.

Truthfully, a lot of the details of this phase are now a blur to me because they were so chaotic and I felt so lost. But what will always remain crystal clear was the moment in time when all of my baggage just evaporated.

The drama in my life had reached a peak, and I was off camping for a weekend with some friends. Asleep inside my tent one night, hugging the edge of it, a bear walked up and stuck its nose in the small of my back with just the tent as a barrier between us. Nothing happened. He became disinterested after a couple seconds and was gone again. But that fear, that nuzzle did something to me.

It sparked me to wake up and stop wasting my own time and energy. It gave me the clarity and power to get my shit together and take some action. To stop making excuses and remaining so stuck in the same damn place repeating the same damn stories.

The day that clarity hit me is the day Embodied Living was born.

The magic started to sizzle, and I got very focused very quickly. I compiled and consolidated my many years of practices, trainings, retreats and experience in several specialized modalities like Ayurveda, shadow yoga, and deep feminine practices, not to mention my years of being a client to therapists, teachers and healers alike.

Within three months I had registered my LLC, launched my company, chopped off my hair/baggage, and sold my belongings, ready to travel and start anew. It’s been an eventful, and in some ways unexpected, several years since, filled with more professional studies, travel, festivals, love, partnership, painting, collaborative businesses, community and healing. At this point I’ve stopped questioning or over-planning what is obviously a beautiful journey that evolves so sweetly when we step out of our own way. I’m currently based between Miami, FL and Central Massachusetts.

Embodied Living is merely an extension of me, of all my personal pain, healing and continuous transformation, and I’m so proud that I choose to represent this form of empowerment and love every single day.

Formal Education + Training

750 Hour Advanced Ayurveda Program (current), Maha Vidya & Arya Ayurveda Academia

Ayurvedic Health Advisor Mentorship (current), Maha Vidya Yoga & Ayurveda

Abhyanga Certification Training, Maha Vidya Yoga & Ayurveda

500-Hr Ayurvedic Professional Studies Program, Maha Vidya & Arya Ayurveda Academia

Ancient Astrology Course (current), Demetra George

Basic Ayurveda Dietetics, Maha Vidya & Arya Ayurveda Academia

The Seat of a Teacher Training Program, Ame Wren

Assisting Restorative Yoga Workshops (2018-2020), Alex Bauermeister

The Art of Restorative Assists Training Program, Alex Bauermeister

Assisting Wanderlust Festival Yoga Classes (2017-2019), Derek Cook

The Teacher Is Present, Holding Space & Trauma Sensitivity, Annie Piper

200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training, Back Bay Yoga

Ballet Training, Marcus Schulkind

Voice Acting, Wren Ross

BFA Musical Theatre, Dance & Acting Emphases, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Audrey's Practice

Morning meditation, first thing, every morning

Meditation & Manifestation book (includes mantras, written practices and processes)

Daily personal yoga and movement practices

Daily self-massage practice

Many years receiving Acupuncture & various therapeutic techniques

Regular massage client of various techniques

Many years of talk therapy, learning behavioral & coping techniques

Mandala painting as a meditation

Hiker/nature bather of many mountains

Deep feminine practitioner, Jumana Sophia

Ayurvedic client, Maha Vidya Yoga & Ayurveda

Referrals

If I don’t know something or cannot guide a specific area of study or practice, I can happily point you in the direction of someone brilliant who can.

The other benefit of walking this path is you begin to find yourself surrounded by an array of specialized teachers, medical professionals, and healers,
someone in every corner.