Alex Young

Erin's journey with yoga started in 2009. After years of practice, she felt led to pursue her yoga teacher training to deepen her knowledge of the yoga teachings and her personal practice. Erin completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training from Y2 Yoga in Charlotte, NC. An insatiable student, she completed both her 200-Hour and 300-Hour trainings in a single year. Y2 Yoga is a leading power yoga studio in Charlotte, NC. Erin's training is anchored in the teachings of the Yoga Sutras and Ashtanga yoga.

 

To further advance her own personal practice, she began an almost daily ashtanga yoga practice while completing her teacher trainings. Ashtanga yoga taught Erin so much about herself. Specifically, how her mental and emotional body has an impact on her physical body, and vice versa. The discipline and rigor of the Ashtanga practice inspire and motivate Erin to return to her mat with each practice. ​

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Erin's journey with Reiki started in 2018. She pursued Reiki as a healing modality to help alleviate symptoms of her Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, a hereditary auto-immune condition impacting the body's energy and metabolism. She was also seeking energetic support as an empath, or someone who experiences heightened awareness of the energy and emotions of others around her.

 

Erin's Reiki Master suggested she consider pursuing Reiki attunements to be able to offer Reiki to others. Over the course of three years, Erin first became attuned to Level 1 Reiki (the ability to offer Reiki to one's self and animals), then Level 2 Reiki (the ability to offer Reiki to others and without being physically together, known as Distant Reiki), and finally to Reiki Master (the ability to teach others how to offer Reiki). 

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Outside of teaching yoga and offering Reiki, Erin owns two small businesses. The Patio Farmer is a business Erin started in 2017 to help people grow food at home. Erin's work with The Patio Farmer has been featured on local TV and radio stations. EMH Food Systems Consulting is Erin's other business where she is able to leverage her decade of experience in research, data acquisition and management, data visualization (mapping) and user experience (UX) skillset to design community-led food system projects. ​Erin holds a Master of Arts from King's College London in Global Ethics & Human Values and Bachelors of Arts from Appalachian State University in Spanish and Global Studies.

 

Beyond yoga, Reiki, and pursuing fulfilling work projects, Erin enjoys spending time with her partner, Marshall, playing with their pit-mix Juniper, tending to her 1-acre homestead, and traveling to new destinations. A fun fact about Erin is that she speaks fluent Spanish and spent a year living in Seville, Spain!