“To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.”
-Terry Tempest Williams
I’m Emma Freeman, a heart-led Reiki Practitioner, Massage Therapist, artist and teacher.
I’m fascinated by the human body and mind, how we are wired, how we are shaped by our experiences, how we can grow and change and what we are truly capable of.
My intention is to inspire and support journeys of self-exploration, soul empowerment and consciousness expansion, contributing to the vibrant health, joy and love within all of us.
My own difficult healing journey led me to this calling to support others with their healing. I believe in our innate ability as humans to heal through love and I believe that often our most painful experiences hold light and treasures within them for us to grow through and become empowered by. I believe our inner worlds hold the keys to our greatest gifts, our soul’s wisdom and true, sacred power. Sometimes we need support entering and navigating that inner terrain of emotions, memories and experiences to find the light and that is what I feel so passionate about helping with.
I have been studying human anatomy, behavior, and consciousness for many years in a variety of ways. I completed a 650+ hour massage therapy program at Everyday Bliss Massage School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I hold three levels of Usui Reiki certification and completed Reiki teacher training. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Studio Art from Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and have worked in the arts and arts education for over 20 years.
I live and work in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin where I live with my wonderful family including two rescue beagles. I love nature, reading, dancing, listening to music, poetry, vulnerable conversations and cooking with people I love. I’m a deep and sensitive soul, sober, playful, rebellious, curious, and passionate.
Holistic Wellness Sessions for Mind, Body and Spirit
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Reiki Session
Restore / Replenish / Revitalize
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing. It is a natural and proven way to help encourage healthy energy flow in the body. Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive method that strengthens the body’s natural ability to heal itself. It is done fully clothed. It works with all other medical and therapeutic treatments. Intuitive messages will be shared to support the client's healing.
We can do an overall healing or focus on a particular area of concern.
At the end of the session, there will be time to discuss what you felt and I will share my observations to help you integrate and understand your experience.
Reiki can be a beneficial complement to any medical or therapeutic treatment without negative side effects or contraindications.
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Distance Reiki Session (on Zoom)
Restore / Replenish / Revitalize
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing. It is a natural and proven way to help encourage healthy energy flow in the body. Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive method that strengthens the body’s natural ability to heal itself. It is done fully clothed. It works with all other medical and therapeutic treatments. Intuitive messages will be shared to support the client's healing.
At the end of the session, there will be time to discuss what you felt and I will share my observations to help you integrate and understand your experience.
Reiki can be a beneficial complement to any medical or therapeutic treatment without negative side effects or contraindications.
You will receive a recording of your session as well.
(I’ll contact you after you book your session with the details for meeting).
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Full Body Reiki Massage
I blend relaxing massage techniques with Reiki to help calm and relax the mind and body so natural healing can happen. We'll focus on areas of tension and tightness to help support a healthy flow of energy.
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Reiki Massage for Specific Area
We'll focus on a specific area of physical tightness and pain with massage and Reiki techniques to help restore balance and healthy energy flow to the area. Great for supporting injury and surgery recovery, sciatica, headaches, back pain, tennis elbow and more.
This is a session for a specific area rather than a full body massage which I offer in my 90 minute Full Body Reiki Massage sessions.
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Multidimensional Energy Healing Session
During this session, I use Reiki and other energy healing techniques to connect subtle aspects of the physical, emotional and mental aspects of you that are ready for rebalancing and healing. This process can help foster balance, clarity and peace.
This session is designed for people who are prepared for potentially powerful insights and shifts in themselves and those already doing inner work.
Intuitive insights and messages will be shared to help you understand and integrate the healing experience.
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Distance Multidimensional Energy Healing Session (on Zoom)
During this session, we meet on Zoom and I use Reiki and other energy healing techniques to connect subtle aspects of the physical, emotional and mental aspects of you that are ready for rebalancing and healing. This process can help foster balance, clarity and peace.
This session is designed for people who are prepared for potentially powerful insights and shifts in themselves and those already doing inner work.
Intuitive insights and messages will be shared to help you understand and integrate the healing experience.
You will receive a recording of the session to continue to support you.
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Intuitive Spiritual Guidance Session
In these sessions, I will create a sacred space for us and tap into my intuition to connect with you, your higher self (soul), spirit guides, ancestors, inner child and other supportive beings. This connection is intended to provide guidance and insights relevant to your journey at this time and support self-discovery. I hold a clear intention that all guidance be aligned with your highest good.
You can share any parts of your life you are seeking more clarity with.
Come with an open mind and a curious heart and see what unfolds!
Bring a journal to take notes. You will receive a recording as well.
Sessions held in-person or on Zoom.
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Distance Intuitive Spiritual Guidance Session (on Zoom)
We will gather together on Zoom and I will tap into my intuition to connect with your energy, higher self, spirit guides, ancestors, and inner child. This connection is intended to provide guidance and insights relevant to your journey at this time and support your self-discovery.
You are welcome to ask questions about any aspects of your life. Loved ones who have passed may come through but each session cannot be predicted ahead of time. I will share intuitive insights for your personal reflection and interpretation.
You will receive a recording of this session to revisit if you'd like to. I encourage you to bring a journal to take notes as well.
(I will send you a Zoom link after you book a session).
Upcoming In-Person Classes and Retreats
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Reiki Level 2 Certification Training Class
*Two spots left!
January 18th-19th, 2025
10am-3pm both days
Location:
Deep Rooted Healing, 106A North Main Street, Oconomowoc, WI 53066
In this class, you will learn how to build on what you learned in Level 1 and connect with the Reiki energy on a deeper level including three sacred Reiki symbols, how to support mental and emotional healing in yourself and others and how to do distance Reiki. I'll also teach you how I work with crystals during sessions to expand and deepen the healing possibilities.
Prerequisite: Level 1 Usui Reiki with me or another instructor (You will need to send me a copy of your certificate if you learned Level 1 with another teacher).
Cost: $350
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Reiki Level 3 Master/Practitioner Certification Class
THIS CLASS IS FULL
February 22nd-23rd, 2025
10am-3pm both days
Location:
Deep Rooted Healing, 106A North Main Street, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 53066
Join me to become a certified Level 3 Usui Reiki Master/Practitioner in this weekend class. You will build on what you learned in Levels 1 & 2 and learn how to work more deeply with your intuition, you'll learn the Master Reiki symbol and how to use it, working more in-depth with physical healing, the aura/biofield, expand emotional, mental and spiritual healing possibilities in-person and at a distance, how to offer Reiki to groups of humans, animals and more. We'll also talk about the business of Reiki and setting up your own professional practice to support your community.
Prerequisites: You need to have completed Reiki Level 1 & 2 (Usui lineage) with me or another teacher before taking this class.
Cost: $350
(THIS CLASS IS FULL)
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Reiki Level 1 Certification Training Class
Saturday, March 8th-9th, 2025
10am-3pm both days
Location:
Deep Rooted Healing, 106A North Main Street, Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Learn Usui Reiki Level 1 with me over a cozy weekend in my healing space. In this class, you will learn the basics of how to offer this wonderful hands-on healing technique for physical healing for yourself, your family, friends, pets and more. Reiki is a very gentle and powerful healing modality that anyone can learn.
This class is limited to 4 people to keep it small and intimate and give each person plenty of care and support throughout the learning experience.
Cost: $350 or two payments of $175
On-Demand Creative Classes & Retreats
You receive unlimited 24/7 access to go at your own pace with support from me along the way if you need it.
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Soul Writing Sanctuary: Feeling Our Way Through Grief and Loss (COMING SOON)
A quiet on-demand space to explore and tend to our grief and losses through intuitive writing practices, poetry, guided meditations, passages to spark contemplation and reflection, healing sounds and writing prompts. When we tend to our grief, we tend to our souls. Finding ways to gently touch what is tender or hidden inside can be healing and restorative. Come exactly as you are and allow your heart to pour on to the page.
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Fireflies, Roots and Waves: A Nature Writing Retreat
Slow down and connect with the healing gifts of nature in this on-demand writing retreat. Gathered poems from different poets along with writing prompts that will invite you to pause, listen within and write from an intuitive, open space to discover what wants to emerge on to the page. Guided meditations and creative nature adventures will deepen the retreat experience. You will be able to come and go as you please and use this retreat over a weekend or spread out over a week or many months.
$55.00
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Make Fabric Meditation Books
Learn to create slow, hand stitched books with a process that is calming, meditative, intuitive and healing. I share many techniques you can use to create fabric books and different ways to incorporate nature to create personal meaning. All techniques are simple and require no previous stitching experience.
Over 35 lessons included to guide you through creating books that resonate with you.
$55.00
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Make a Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth
We'll work with soft fabrics and thread to gently go inward, process emotions and thoughts and return to stillness and silence for healing and wisdom. This practice is intuitive and very calming.
$45.00
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By the Light of a Poem: A 30 Day Soulful Writing Journey
In this class, I guide you through a simple daily writing practice to discover what wants to move up and out of you on to the page. I share 30 poems on light and darkness along with prompts to spark your writing each day. This is intuitive writing. The focus is on being present, open, receptive and allowing ourselves to feel and express what emerges in the moment.
$45.00
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Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books
Play with paper, fabric, ink, stitching, found nature and more while exploring the beautifully rich Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi that is rooted in Zen Buddhism. This class is all about exploring art making as a spiritual practice.
$55.00
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Soul Messages: A Found Poetry Workshop
Explore an intuitive, playful way of creating, discovering & receiving poetic soul messages from gathered words we cut from magazines. Expand and deepen your relationship with language for self-expression, gentle healing and inner guidance. This is a meditation practice that can open us to deeper knowing and a connection to our subtle sensitivities.
$45.00
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Zen and the Art of Nature Weaving
Learn to create beautiful, simple weavings on pieces of nature found on walks. Connect more deeply with the incredible world around you and within you through this slow, meditative process. We’ll explore and weave in Zen Buddhist teachings along the way.
$45.00
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Book Making Class Bundle
In this bundle, you get my two book making classes to go deeper with your creative process at a discounted price.
This bundle includes these classes:
-Fabric Meditation Books
-Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books
$85.00 ($110.00 value)
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Poetry Class Bundle
In this bundle, you get two of my poetry classes for a discounted price.
This bundle includes these classes:
-By the Light of a Poem: A 30 Day Writing Journey
-Soul Messages: A Found Poetry Workshop
$70.00 ($90.00 value)
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Slow Stitching Class Bundle
This bundle includes these classes that incorporate slow stitching practices:
-Make Fabric Meditation Books
-Make a Contemplation Cloth
$75.00 ($100.00 value)
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Wabi Sabi & Contemplation Cloth Class Bundle
This bundle includes these two classes:
-Make Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books
-Make a Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth
$85.00 ($110.00 value)
Art I Have Created That Has Been Healing
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Fabric Meditation Books
I use stitching as a meditation practice to create small, intimate fabric books with natural materials, old textiles and found nature.
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Buried Meditation Books
I bury many of my fabric meditation books in the ground and then dig them back up, inviting and exploring transformation, alchemy and collaboration with the earth’s powerful healing energies. This practice has been deeply healing for me.
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Contemplation Cloths
I create large slow stitched cloths with simple running stitches (or slow walking stitches) as a practice to find spaciousness and openness within me to ponder, to feel, to explore, to go deep.
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Poetry as Medicine
I write poetry as a way to go deeper within myself and the world, to feel and connect, to release and let go, to listen, to lovingly touch what needs care and attention. It is a practice of the Zen Not Knowing or Beginner’s Mind - I never know what I will write when I sit down, but something nudges me to begin and when I do, I am amazed at what emerges on the page and how it makes me feel every single time.
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Soul Messages: My Found Poetry Meditation Practice
I sit down with a clear intention to be open and receptive, I put on flowing music and I begin to feel into the energy of the words I cut from magazines. As I slowly move words around, intuitive messages begin to emerge that resonate deeply and subtly with me. It feels like I am receiving the messages or guidance rather than writing the messages myself. It’s magic and so healing. The key is to allow plenty of time - usually an hour or more, if I rush, the depth isn’t there.
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Wabi Sabi Scrolls
I explore the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi sabi that is rooted in Zen Buddhism through the practice of creating small, intimate hand stitched scrolls. I practice silence, spaciousness, impermanence, interconnection, imperfection and the other beautifully rich qualities of wabi sabi during the creative process of making these scrolls.