Welcoming you to your home of movement, education and inquiry ~ rooted in authenticity and nourishment
Join me in practices that integrate mobility, fascia, functional patterns, meditative and somatics, and ritual inquiries, alongside grounding educational resources that honor your rhythm and your season of life
Join live class weekly
Come as you are for 20-40 minutes twice a month on Tuesdays @ 7am EST for The Terra Class Prenatal Sessions and twice a month on Thursdays @ 7am EST for The Terra Class Sessions!
Designed for Every Body
A space for 5-40 min sessions of grounded movement, inquiry and embodied learning, The Terra Class offerings are designed to support the body beyond any single life chapter, offering tools that carry through stress, transition, recovery, and daily life. With an emphasis on breath, support, and nervous system awareness, classes invite a more attuned relationship with movement ~ welcoming people across the lifespan who are seeking to feel steadier, more connected, and more at home in their bodies.
Inspired by Pelvic Health
Gently guided by a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist, cultivate empowerment through multi-faceted movement patterns and learn about how to strengthen and cultivate softness within the pelvis across the lifespan
Embodied Nervous System Integration
Learn to cultivate internal awareness of body senses through a somatic and self-regulated approach, various meditation techniques and inquiry to hold you in movement that feels right to you, while listening to what your body is craving in any given moment
About Emily Hughes
Welcome! I am thrilled to embark on this journey of doing all the things I love: teaching, moving and connecting with each and every one of you.
Before I share the wonderful creation of The Terra Class with you, I would like to share how it all came about...
It all began when I received my RYT 200 hour yoga teacher training certificate in 2019. It seemed like the perfect combination. Teaching (which I always loved to do since a young age, always playing "teacher" with my sisters) and moving my body. I had a love for providing safe and self love tips for students who were pregnant.
When I entered Thomas Jefferson University's Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, my first class I took was anatomy and physiology with cadaver lab. When we dissected the pelvis, I was completely intrigued and fascinated by the bony structure. The muscles were smaller than you can imagine and intricately woven together, creating one of the most important structures in our body that supports each of us physically and emotionally. No offense, the legs are great, but I just wanted to continue studying and understanding the pelvis!
When I graduated DPT school in 2022, I planted seeds of creating something that involves what I deeply love: teaching, movement, meditation/inquiry, and pelvic health. Throughout this time, I also began worked as an outpatient physcial therapist in the outskirts of Boston, MA treating across all ages and walks of life. My love continued to grow specializing as a pelvic health physical therapist, treating prenatal, postpartum and other pelvic conditions involving bowel and bladder dysfunctions and general pelvic pain/dysfunction. My journey through meditation and nervous system integration began through techniques that I have learned through my own self learning and experiences, expanding in deep restorative sequences intertwined with self inquiry and using the body senses to connect to heart center.
While I love individually treating, I began experiencing burnout in the clinic. I deeply long for wanting to help more to-be moms, mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, aunts in ways that align with who I am. After many hikes, journaling and talking to my partner, Austin, The Terra Class was born.
The Terra Class is rooted in love, kindness and groundedness. Created to welcome and support all ages and walks of life including prenatal and postpartum. The Terra Class cultivates guide-led functional movement strategies, integral education and heart-centered inquiry in order to life live with greater trust, care, and self-understanding.
Come join us with tea, coffee or another warming beverage of your choice and comfortable, natural lighting if that calls you! Comfy clothes are essential! We welcome loving pets and babies! After all, movement should be fun and integrated with the environment and people around us!
Become a member
Monthly
$27.00 per month
- 1 online live classes a week as well as unlimited access to new recorded content each week and previous live videos (movement, education and inquiry sections) in the library, for eternity
Annual
$22.50 per month
- 1 online live classes a week as well as unlimited access to new recorded content each week and previous live videos (movement, education and inquiry sections) in the library, for eternity