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Empowering you on your journey to emotional well being and success.

Empowering you on your journey to emotional well being and success.
Dr. Robert Waldinger, Psychiatrist, Masscahusetts General
We know that we need to go the gym to work our physical bodies out, and that we must visit a therapist to support our mental health, but where do we go to - and how do we - build our emotional intelligence?
Emotional Fitness Dojo is the place where, and the time when, you exercise your emotional body. Through our proprietary embodiment tools, with a proven formula, and alongside a coach who has transformed their own internal operating system via this intentional workout, you will experience deeper contentment along with greater ease and confidence within yourself as well as your closest relationships.
from the 90-year old Harvard Adult Development Study
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I am well versed with this work. AND I needed to be supported and witnessed in terms of feeling and releasing some of the mixed emotions I was carrying due to the dissolution of my marriage. I also needed the gentle reminder of the tools that are already in my tool belt for constructively coping with the messiness and discomfort I was exp
I am well versed with this work. AND I needed to be supported and witnessed in terms of feeling and releasing some of the mixed emotions I was carrying due to the dissolution of my marriage. I also needed the gentle reminder of the tools that are already in my tool belt for constructively coping with the messiness and discomfort I was experiencing. My EFD guide’s attunement - to me personally, to the moments at hand and to our time together - allowed us to get right to work and was super beneficial in terms of my shifting my energy out of a heavy lethargy and into a more light-filled joy after just one session.
--Andrew Belinsky, Single Father, Musician & Masculine Embodiment Founder, Bend, Oregon, USA
I often find myself in my head, preoccupied with my thoughts and then frustrated with how I am not being celebrated within our more neurotypical world (as well as my profession). Through Emotional Fitness Dojo's embodiment and self-awareness exercises , I experience more connection to myself and others. My EFD guide also helped me to iden
I often find myself in my head, preoccupied with my thoughts and then frustrated with how I am not being celebrated within our more neurotypical world (as well as my profession). Through Emotional Fitness Dojo's embodiment and self-awareness exercises , I experience more connection to myself and others. My EFD guide also helped me to identify emotional and physiological patterns that block my evolution and, under her tutelage, I have refined my own authentic movement pathways for coming back to my center as well as a clear vision for cogently communicating my ideas, desires and needs to others."
-- Sasha Peter Carter, Adjunct Professor, Mesa College, San Diego, California, USA
EFD and my guide, Cara, have helped me bypass my brain and let me gain access to the energy that has been pressured to stay hidden over the decades. In just 3 sessions, I had a transformational breakthrough that has been instrumental in my self-love at a level I’ve never experienced. No amount of talk therapy throughout the years has help
EFD and my guide, Cara, have helped me bypass my brain and let me gain access to the energy that has been pressured to stay hidden over the decades. In just 3 sessions, I had a transformational breakthrough that has been instrumental in my self-love at a level I’ve never experienced. No amount of talk therapy throughout the years has helped me gain this much awareness, nor help me embody my new findings as much as working with EFD.
--Li Breton, Founder, House of Breton
(Wedding Apparel for Queer Folx) , Indiana, USA
with all my weight. I was invited to hold and be held. Cara's guidance is pure, unconditional love. She encourages a playful spirit and she welcomes all emotions and feelings to be felt and expressed. Her dense and confident energy is not to be missed. For an authentic experience of being and connecting, I highly recommend Cara's work.
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with all my weight. I was invited to hold and be held. Cara's guidance is pure, unconditional love. She encourages a playful spirit and she welcomes all emotions and feelings to be felt and expressed. Her dense and confident energy is not to be missed. For an authentic experience of being and connecting, I highly recommend Cara's work.
---Johann Gunnarsson, Single Father & Software Engineer, Reykjavik, Iceland
Open communication makes a person more capable, strong-willed and caring. I am inspired by Cara's guidance at the task of bringing people down into their bodies. She guides us back to remembering how to support ourselves!
--Zhen Kurylyekh, Ukranian Refugee & Cold Water Champion Swimmer
cultivated greater self compassion. I was reminded that I am supported by our Earth and that I can fully embrace my authentic self. I unlocked aspects of myself that have been hiding for years! By the end of my participation within the (Emotional Fitness) Dojo, I felt energized, excited and ready to continue my work on my own. I've reclai
cultivated greater self compassion. I was reminded that I am supported by our Earth and that I can fully embrace my authentic self. I unlocked aspects of myself that have been hiding for years! By the end of my participation within the (Emotional Fitness) Dojo, I felt energized, excited and ready to continue my work on my own. I've reclaimed my power and magic!
--Roxanne Joseph, Interdisciplinary Artist
California, USA
Our proprietary exercises for breathwork, body and environment mapping, tapping, using constriction and more, are designed to slow you down, bring you into your center and find stillness. Alongside an Emotional Fitness guide, you will remember how to reclaim moving from this place of pure potential - that is always located inside of you - as your modus operandi.
In total ease and trust, you will gain greater insight into your feelings and their underlying emotions. Ruthless honesty breeds vulnerability - it is how we root out toxic shame. You will begin discerning the difference between your destructive thoughts and emotional triggers and patterns. Discernment leads to action and you will begin to catch your triggers and start over-riding them.
Through the use of I-statements in expressing your truth, identifying your needs and then asking for any support you require, you will practice embodying vulnerability as well as being with the discomfort of feeling exposed. Rejection is just redirection after all. You will also honor that other people's expression is simply a reflection of them and has nothing to do with you. "It's not personal."
You will have a clearer understanding of why you behave the way you do as well as well-defined muscles for SELF COMPASSION. In seeing yourself more clearly, you are now able to offer others similarly. ACCEPTANCE of yourself, others and circumstances at hand, has become your new norm. EMPATHY has also become a well-defined muscle that is easier for you to flex
Join our individual and group coaching programs and connect with others who are on a journey to achieve their full potential. Together, we will support and inspire each other to overcome obstacles and achieve our goals. We will live the life of our dreams by cracking the code of WORTHINESS within.
OUR PROPRIETARY TOOLS ARE CONSCIOUSLY CRAFTED TO HELP MOVE YOU DOWN FROM YOUR HEAD INTO YOUR BODY. THEY INVITE CURIOSITY, STIR FEELING & INSPIRE SENSATIONS OF PEACE & PASSION, AWE & EASE.
Cara H. Cadwallader has spent 35 years studying how she can connect more deeply with herself, and others. As an embodiment artist, educator and writer/philosopher, Cara's research has taken her around our globe. She has taught embodiment abroad; is published on global platforms; and has been world, road and un-schooling her and Burt's young son for the last 6 years. She is your 1-on-1 guide on this journey.
Emotional Fitness Dojo is Burt's legacy - brought to life by Cara after his January 2020 death.
Burt was a man who had recovered his Spirit. After growing up an Asian minority in small town, USA; feeling lost and without purpose; and jumping into a toxic marriage in hopes of a 'cure' to his emotional pain, Burt finally turned inwards to address his codependencies and remember his passions. Which included caring about the mental health and emotional wellbeing of other men.
Cara had been raised in a toxic environment where empathy was ridiculed and vulnerability frowned upon. In result, Cara had come to deeply fear what she always wanted the most - which was to feel intimately connected to an/other(s).
In following the call of her heart though, dance, movement & embodiment were always a pathway in which Cara could connect with others.
It was Cara's devotion to the authentic dance communities in San Diego County, California, that brought Burt Lo into her life.
In late 2011, Cara and Burt met. In fall 2014, their only son was born.
As a man of integrity, compassion, kindness, humor and humility, Burt was Mama Cara's ultimate teacher,
especially since she was still recovering her Spirit from her early upbringing under the influence of TOXIC SHAME -
defensiveness, judgement, criticalness, negativity, feelings of inadequacy, a superiority complex, and more.
Emotional Fitness was the subject that lit Burt up the most in the last few years of his life.
Unfortunately, in mid-2018, a genetic cancer came knocking at their shared door and ultimately claimed Burt's life a year and a half later.
Since his death, and in the midst of Covid, political upheaval and environmental calamity, Cara created the embodiment exercises
(that she was often telling Burt he needed for his Emotional Fitness programming), as well as other proprietary Emotional Fitness Dojo tools,
with which to heal herself, and their son, and then offer to others so that they can do the same.
Cara knows this work works because SHE EMBODIES IT. (She also knows how proud of her Burt is.)
Through Emotional Fitness Dojo, Mama Cara has now also shared it with others who are happy to report on the success it has helped bring into their lives.
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