Emily West Horn is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher via the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She is also authorized to teach meditation, dharma, and long retreats by Spirit Rock Meditation Center and Insight Meditation Society. Her teaching career began in 2010 with the encouragement of her teachers, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman.

Emily has been called a “power player of the mindfulness movement" by Wired Magazine. Her work is featured in 10% Happier, Boston Children's Hospital's Comfort Ability Project, Buddhist Geeks, and apps such as Brightmind and Buddhify. She's also been mentoring teachers, in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, led by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D and Tara Brach Ph.D, for over 7 years.

For Emily, a mindful life is simply learning to dance with all of this human experience: from transcendence to dirty dishes, evolutionary edges to ancient roots, solitary practice to deepening relationships. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her husband, Vince, and their child, Zander.