About Emma Farry
Emma Farry (she/her) is a Lebanese Kiwi author, meditator and entrepreneur living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Her award-winning books Beloved, Freedom Song and her newest release Be Love have been used as resources for mental wellbeing, designed to offer comfort, grounding and support to those navigating difficult times.
Emma teaches mindfulness and meditation to women through her work with the Auckland Women’s Centre, Women’s Refuge NZ, various schools and Shakti International, a care group for migrant women facing domestic violence.
She draws strength from her rich Lebanese heritage and the Scottish determination and Celtic love for nature she inherited from her mum. Her journey through loss and grief, and finding grounding and connection through the chaos, has shaped everything she creates.
Emma is an alum of Otago and Canterbury Universities and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism. She has worked in journalism in the UK, Malaysia and New Zealand, and her first novel Redemption was published in New York in 2001.
She creates her books and soul stones from her studio overlooking Muriwai Beach, and she has meditated every day since 1997. It is a practice she believes belongs to everyone, and one she is now sharing through her YouTube channel, Breathe with Emma.
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Some Facts About Emma:
- Her first novel "Redemption" was published in New York by Face to Face Press in 2002. You can still buy it on Amazon.
- Emma is a keen photographer and all images on her social media channels and those featured in her book 'Beloved' are her originals.
- Emma has meditated every day since 1997, and still feels like a beginner in this practice. The deep benefits she receives from meditation are something she wants to share with the world.
- Emma and her friends started Saama, New Zealand’s first multi-cultural talent agency.
- After her post-graduate diploma in journalism, Emma worked at her first newspaper job at the Otago Daily Times in Dunedin. Back then journalists wrote their stories on typewriters, people still smoked at work and the bosses were all male.
