Vanessa Jude Cafiero is a licensed acupuncturist, massage therapist, and founder of Emerge Holistics—a multidisciplinary healing and education space where modern science meets somatic wisdom and spiritual tradition. With nearly two decades of experience, she is known for her grounded, multidimensional approach blending yoga, energy medicine, nervous system regulation, and embodied leadership.

Her work draws from over 1,000 hours of advanced yoga training and certifications in somatic breathwork, craniosacral therapy, energy healing, and spiritual psychology. Vanessa blends subtle energy practices with hands-on modalities like myofascial release, offering an integrative approach that supports emotional processing, physical unwinding, and energetic recalibration.

With formal training in both Eastern medicine and Western biology, she integrates these perspectives—merging structural techniques with subtle energetics to support the whole person. Her approach bridges time-honored practices with contemporary understanding, honoring the body as both a vessel for healing and a map to deeper truth.

She is the creator of ELEVATE: Yoga, Energy Medicine & Leadership Immersion—a nearly 300-hour transformational training designed to awaken inner wisdom, strengthen presence, and empower students to guide with authenticity and depth.

Vanessa’s teaching is intuitive, poetic, and practical. Shaped by her own recovery from multiple traumatic brain injuries, she brings empathy and clarity to every space she holds. Her work invites others to reconnect to their body’s intelligence and remember the wholeness that was never lost.