I am not here to help you ‘feel better’.
I’m here to Guide you back to your Truth, Awaken your Feminine Power, and Rise into your Purpose.
My name is Emily Byrd
I am the founder of ShaktiSOMA™ School of Spirituality + Somatics
A collection of living transmissions that create sacred embodiment, somatic transformation and empowered feminine liberation.
I’m not your typical coach or teacher. I am a space-holder, a guide, a fire-keeper.
I work with women (and a few brave men) who are ready to move through the veil of disembodiment and illusion that we’ve all been fed.
Who are ready to wake up out of the old programming and limitations of the conscious mind and to awaken the ancient wisdom that lives in the body to embody the power that’s been within all along.
ShaktiSOMA™ is where spirituality meets science.
Where ancient feminine wisdom meets modern somatic healing.
Where truth is remembered and authenticity is reclaimed.
This is the space where you rise spiritually, sensually, cellularly, soulfully.
This isn’t self-help. This is self-remembrance.
What I Stand For
Inside every ShaktiSOMA™ container, you will create more than just healing. You will experience a sacred homecoming.
This is the space for the woman who’s ready to stop shrinking, performative living or pushing through.
This is for the Feminine Leaders on the rise: The ones who feel the call to lead, teach, create and transform the world by first returning to the wisdom of their own body.
What’s at the core of every session, circle, ceremony and mentorship:
Radical embodiment
Reclaiming your body as the compass, the oracle, the sacred source
Nervous system transformation
From chaos or shutdown into grounded safety, sovereignty and expansion
Feminine empowerment
Not through hustle, but through devotion, ritual, sensuality and remembering
Trauma-informed guidance
Held with depth, skill and reverence
Sustainable transformation
Slow, sensual, integrated: honoring your timing, truth and capacity
Artistry, beauty & reverence
Because your transformation should feel sacred, not clinical
Impact beyond the self
Embodiment as a ripple that touches every soul you’re meant to lead
You Are Invited…
To Stop Fixing What Was Never Broken
You don’t need to fix yourself.
You are not lost. You are on the edge of remembrance.
You don’t need another strategy or book
You need stillness, breath, ritual.
You need the sacred silence that reveals what’s been within you all along.
You are the medicine.
You are the portal.
You are Shakti.
To Come Home to the Wisdom of Your Body
No more bypassing.
No more numbing, hustling or silencing your truth.
Your body already knows.
It remembers the power that was never taken, only forgotten.
It’s time to listen.
To breathe into your womb, your heart, your bones.
To reclaim what’s always been yours.
This is Soma.
To Embody the Brave Path of Becoming
This work will ask everything of you
and in return, give you back your soul.
You will meet your shadow and embrace your light.
You will shed, rise, soften, roar.
You will become the woman you came here to be.
Not by force, but by full-body devotion.
To Say Yes to the Sacred Unknown
Say Yes to the unraveling.
Say Yes to the remembering.
Say Yes to the beauty, the ache, the mystery.
Say Yes to Your Life
…not the one that was “prescribed" to you
but the Life your soul is begging you to live.
Say Yes to what you already are.
My Path Has Never been Linear.
It has been one Initiation after another.
I didn’t set out to be a guide, a mentor or the founder of ShaktiSOMA™.
Almost 2 decades ago, I set out to find truth. To feel the Divine. To come home to my body.
My path began as a young mother awakening to the reality that my son’s experience in this world would be radically different from mine. That realization cracked something open in me. It sent me searching for meaning, healing and alignment… not just for me, but for him.
For us.
Yoga was the first portal. I trained under Baron Baptiste for over a decade. I built a yoga school. Opened a studio. Taught to hundreds of students trained and mentored a collective of high-caliber teachers.
But even at the height of that chapter, something deeper was calling me.
When my father passed, I was holding the weight of a life I had outgrown.
I was running two brick-and-mortar businesses - a hair salon and yoga studio. And to be honest, this no longer matched my soul’s frequency. I was cracked open…again. And that was the moment I said Yes to my next evolution.
In 2020, I sold my studio just days before the world shut down. Divine timing.
And from there, I stepped fully onto my path as a transformational guide and mentor.
I’ve been deeply initiated by breathwork journeys, teacher trainings and daily devotion. I’ve cut cords from the wounds of my lineage. Traveled the world to share my work and deepen my embodiment of the work.
Embarked on incredible spiritual, psychedelic journeys. I’ve sat in ceremony. Communed with ancient medicine, shamans and age-old teachings.
Over and over again, I have said no to the known and Yes to the wild unknown.
I’ve mentored under master teachers like Baron Baptiste, Alyssa Nobriga, Sofiah Thom and Sarah Warnaar. I’ve trained in trauma-informed transformational somatic coaching, yoga teacher mentorship and breathwork facilitation.
By now, I’ve globally guided thousands of humans through transformation, into their purpose and power, their most inherent worth and essence.
But more than the credentials and certifications, what qualifies me is this:
I live this work.
Breathwork, ritual, meditation, sacred movement ~ this is my life.
Not something I do… but rather, who I am here to be.
And I am here to walk with you.
To help you remember who you are.
To awaken and embody the codes that live in your bones, body and blood.
To activate and mentor the teacher, healer, leader and guide within you.
To guide you through transformation of your deepest shadows and show you that your pain is not your prison… it’s your portal.
This is the sacred path of ShaktiSOMA™:
Not just healing. Not just helping.
This is Embodiment. Remembrance. Liberation.
Are you ready to rise?
Step into the work your soul has been waiting for.
Your path is calling.
I’m here to walk it with you.