Emily Horn

Emily Horn is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and an authorized Insight Meditation Teacher. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society and InsightLA have empowered her to teach meditation, Dharma and long residential retreats.

Her work is shaped by her studies at Naropa University and by more than a year of intensive Insight Meditation retreats in her 20s, mentored by Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman and others. For almost two decades she has taught retreats around the world and mentored and trained hundreds of mindfulness teachers. For more than seven years she has served as a senior mentor in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Wired Magazine called her a "power player of the mindfulness movement." Her teaching and writing have appeared in 10% Happier, Boston Children's Hospital's Comfort Ability Project, Buddhist Geeks, and mindfulness apps such as Brightmind and Buddhify.

With her sister, Dr. Kirsten West, she co-founded Mindful Wellness Space, a collaborative healing environment that brings together meditation, functional medicine, chiropractic care, acupuncture and other restorative modalities. With her husband, Vincent Horn, she co-created the Buddhist Geeks conferences and retreats, and the two have co-led retreats and online programs.

Emily was born and raised in the Southern Appalachian region. She lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with Vincent and their son, Zander. Raised Episcopalian and deeply connected to Buddhist wisdom, she blends ancient roots with modern science. For her, living mindfully means learning to dance with the full range of human experience, from transcendence to dirty…