Emily Linders

Emily Linders is an ecotherapist and contemplative wilderness guide. Over 15 years of formal meditation practice and wilderness-based youth development work inform her work as a nature-based psychotherapist under the oaks of Sonoma County.

Emily practiced residentially at Insight Meditation Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and also completed a one-year Buddhist Chaplaincy training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies with a focus on hospice care. For the last two decades she has managed to spend nearly every summer in the wilderness as a trail worker, backcountry cook, zen student, or contemplative backing guide through the rugged backcountry of Big Sur. Her wish is that humans can deepen their sense of belonging on this earth and to each other through cultivation of presence, wonder and delight.

"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds." — Carl Rogers, A Way of Being