Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP, fuses positive psychology, nutrition, yoga and spirituality, to help individuals and organizations flourish through coaching and seminars. She combines the Eastern philosophies of aikido, yoga and buddhism, with the Western science of optimal health and functioning.

Emiliya is a Penn Resilience Program facilitator and has international experience training teachers in positive psychology and resilience programs. She conducts seminars based on positive psychology in the community and Yoga Ed. in the school system. For years, she has studied naturopathic and complimentary alternative medicine and incorporates holistic approaches into her work.

Emiliya is a certified Brain Gym practitioner, which involves using physical movements to achieve optimal brain functioning. Additionally Emiliya has a near decade of work as a professional entertainer. Her top strengths are gratitude, love of learning, zest and enthusiasm, forgiveness, love and the capacity to be loved.

Emiliya is the founder of Flourish, Inc. and creator of Flourishing Cards which will be available in print in 2009. She is the creator of www.positivepsycharticles.com, a site through which users can browse research in the field of Positive Psychology and add to the database.