Emiliya 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.
She 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. Emiliya is also a contributing author for Positive Psychology News Daily, www.pos-psych.com.
Education and Training
Emiliya Zhivotovskaya holds a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently a visiting scholar. She is a summa cum laude graduate from Long Island University’s Honors Program where she completed her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and minored in Fine Art, Business and Philosophy.
Emiliya is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Emiliya completed her 200 hour- Vinyasa Yoga teacher's traing at Sonic Yoga, Laughter Yoga Leader certification through the Dr. Kataria's School of Laughter Yoga, and is trained through Yoga Ed. in their grades K-12 program. She is fully insured and a member of Yoga Alliance (YA). Additionally, Emiliya is a Level 1 and 2 Reiki Practitioner trained at the International Center for Reiki Training.
Publications:
The Biology of Happiness: http://pos-psych.com/news/emiliya-zhivotovskaya/200810281108
Healthy Minds Reside in Healthy Bodies: http://pos-psych.com/news/emiliya-zhivotovskaya/20080821972
Smile and Others Smile With You: Healthy Benefits, Emotional Contagion, and Mimicry: http://pos-psych.com/news/emiliya-zhivotovskaya/200809271036
Devi, G., Hahn, K., Massimi, S., and Zhivotovskaya, E. Prevalence of memory loss complaints and other symptoms associated with the menopause transition: A community survey. Journal of Gender Specific Medicine. 2005;2:255-264.
Devi, G., Zhivotovskaya, E., and Thompson, S. (in press). Which presidents are most remembered? American Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Other Dementias (in print).
Giffen, D., and Zhivotovskaya, E. (2007). A positive psychology toolkit for coaches: Gratitude, visualization and book proposal. Scholarly Commons: Philadelphia, PA.
http://repository.upenn.edu/mapp_capstone/2/
Zhivotovskaya, E. Human facial expressions of emotion. New York: C.W. Post Honors Program; 2006.
