Who we are
we’re so glad you’re here
What we do
Our name, Muditā, is the Sanskirt term for vicarious JOY, or the act of being happy for others. A joy that delights in the success of those around us.
Our intention is simple, we want our students and clients to cultivate a meaningful realtionship with being well.
Our goal is to provide thoughtfully curated wellness experiences in the community and beyond with an eye towards access and inclusivity. We believe in empowering our students and clients with a repeatable and sustainable pathway of wellbeing practices, and advocate for our client’s ability to become educated on holistic health within their community, on their own terms.
We intentionally partner with mission-aligned, vetted, and certified healers from various backgrounds to create safe and inviting spaces for our events, retreats, and workshops.
Meet Emily
Emily Awad is the founder of Mudita Wellness, and Moss & Moon Wellness. She has spent most of her life seeking out alternative healing modalities and is passionate about treating her students and clients with non-judgment and authentic loving kindness. Being a healer has always been innately inside of Emily, and she believes wholeheartedly that the path to wellness should address the mind, body and spirit.
She is a certified ERYT-500 Hour Master Teacher, Registered Yoga Instructor through Yoga Alliance, a certified YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) a Certified Reiki Master Teacher of the Usui lineage, a Certified 300 Hour Holistic Sound Therapist through SHIFT Meditation, an Artist specializing in Oil Painting/Drawing and Design, and a Gifted Intuitive.
With a Masters of Science (M.S.) in Leadership and Organizational Change, she is passionate about re-imagining the delivery structures of holistic health through her continuing research in wellness access and inclusivity.
Emily has studied extensively in yoga, yoga therapy, meditation, sound therapeutics, the science of channelling, occuluted knowledge, psychology and disaster mental health counseling, behavioral analysis, organizational change and leadership, and visual design throughout the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Nepal, Spain, and Indonesia.
After losing her Mom in a difficult two year battle of chemotherapy and radiation to throat cancer in 2014, Emily’s path changed dramatically. She has since set out to discover, teach, and scientifically prove the benefits of holistic mind-body-spirit and energy medicine as alternative and effective treatments for long-term health and disease prevention.
Growing up homesteading in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate, NY Emily learned how to garden organically and care for the land using non-invasive practices. It is important to her that her events and retreats hold space for education around the value of learning how to cultivate native food, source locally, and eat sustainably in both rural and urban settings.
In her free time Emily likes to garden, paint, draw, cook, hike, explore new places and collect books of all kinds. She resides between the West Coast of Puerto Rico, and her small organic family finca homestead in the Finger Lakes of Upstate, NY.
Why we do it
Education
2019-2021 – M.S., Master of Science, Leadership and Organizational Change Management, Nazareth University, Thesis Topic: The Rise of the Digitization of the Wellness Industry During COVID-19, GPA 4.0, Summa Cum Laude
2021- Induction into Sigma Beta Delta: Sigma Beta Delta honors the top international students in business, management and administration based upon high academic achievement
2004-2010- Bachelor of Arts in Visual Design, Psychology, SUNY Empire State University, SUNY New Paltz, GPA 4.0, Summa Cum Laude
2006-2008- President of Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority, SUNY New Paltz Chapter: awarded most hours of community service completed and organized by a President in the history of the chapter organization
2023 – 300 Hour Master Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh YTTC, Rishikesh, India in Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha, Meditation, Pranayama, Anatomy, Mantra Chanting, Philosophy, Teaching Methodology, and Adjustments under Guru Yogi Sangeev, CEO & Founder
2020 – ACITA Anti-Racism Continuing Education Training Course for Yoga Teachers, Tru Yoga Rochester, NY
2021-2022 – Holistic Sound Meditation Therapist Certification, completion of 6 associated Case Studies with a focus in groups trying to come off of medications for depression and/or anxiety SHIFT Meditation, under Stacey Griffin
2023: YACEP Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider Certification: Yoga courses taken with a YACEP training count toward meeting Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Requirements.
2019 – Illustration of Midtown Athletic Club Yoga Teacher Training Guides, Drawings and Tutorial Images
2018 – 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification, Midtown Athletic Club in Asana, Anatomy & Therapeutics, Meditation, Philosophy, Restorative Yoga, Subtle Body, Sequencing, Sanskrit Terminology, Teaching Methodology, and the Art & Science of Vinyasa Yoga under the lineage of: Aimee Senise Connors, John Friend, B.K.S Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois
2015-2017 – Reiki Master Teacher (Levels 1, 2, 3) Certification, Radiant You Wellness