This Didn’t Start as a Business.
It Started as a Break.

Before this was a studio…
Before there were murals, playlists, waivers, and workouts…
It was must me, asking what it would feel like to finally let go.

Meet Erica

Owner. Trainer. Creator of E·motion.
NCSF Certified · CPR/AED Certified · KOR Certified

...but the real credentials are the scars you can't see.

I’ve been a personal trainer for over a decade. I’ve worked in gyms, coached in studios, led hundreds of workouts. But over time, I started to notice something most fitness programs ignored.

People weren’t just tired.

They were holding pain.

Grief. Rage. Exhaustion. Trauma.

Not just in their minds, but in their bodies.

After surviving a major health scare that forced me to rebuild my life from the ground up, I knew I couldn’t go back to business as usual.

So I created what I couldn’t find.
That’s how E·motion began.

"My story is one for the misfits..."

I was adopted as a baby and always felt like I didn’t belong anywhere.

I didn’t look like my peers. I wasn’t “girly” enough for the girls or “hard” enough for the boys. Dresses made me uncomfortable. Scrapes and bruises were normal. I didn’t feel present in my life until I fell in love with basketball.

The court felt like home.That love carried me to a full scholarship at Metro State. But when I started searching for my biological mom, without support from my family, my mental health collapsed. My grades fell. Basketball didn’t feel like home anymore. I shut down.

Then I became a mom. And when my daughter was still a baby, I was offered a second chance to play ball, this time in Kansas. I packed up, ready to reclaim my future.

But I didn’t make it through the first day.

I woke up six weeks later, back in Colorado, coming out of a coma.

Six weeks unconscious.

Three months in the hospital.

Forty-eight blood transfusions.

A tracheotomy.

Grand mal seizures.

I lost part of my right lung... and all of my will to live.

But with physical recovery came a spiritual awakening.

And over the years of putting myself back together, I realized something:

Healing should never feel like punishment.

It should feel like a gift.

E·motion is that gift. For me, and for anyone who walks through the door.

“I’ve learned that healing isn’t about reaching a finish line but about returning to yourself, over and over. I’m no stranger to the reset button. And maybe that’s the point—to keep hitting reset to shed all the things that were never a part of you. Un-become to become…? I don’t know. But I do know I’m willing to learn as much as possible while I’m here and bring you along.”
— Erica

This space was built for people who are carrying more than they let on.

It's a room where you don’t have to hold it together

Where You Don't have to explain why you're angry, sad, or just done

Where no one tells you to “tone it down”

You don’t just do E·motion. You go through it and you come out lighter.

Murals With a Message

This space was designed to hold emotion.
The murals remind you why you're here.
Every brushstroke reflects resilience, softness, movement, and truth.
The art doesn't just decorate the space, it holds you while you heal in it.