Marie graduated from one of Fortune magazine’s top recommended Health Coaching schools, the Institute of Integrative Nutrition:
Institute of Integrative Nutrition is dedicated to actively healing the world and empowering people to transform health, find their passion, and live their best lives.
Marie became a yoga teacher due to an ankle injury and repetitive stress injuries in her arms. She adapts her classes for people of all abilities. As a yoga teacher, she noticed that people needed help with their wellness routines, leading her to become a health coach.
She holds a Happy for No Reason Trainer Certification with New York Times best selling author, Marci Shimoff.
With over 1000 hours of Yoga Teacher Training background (500 from Kripalu.org), Marie brings to her Health Coaching practice over 20 years of yoga teaching and related wellness experience. Additionally she gained training and experience in dementia caregiving, substance abuse intervention and working as an advisor to Performing Arts and International Students at The Ohio State University and New York University.
Marie supported herself working in a variety of industries as a salary, commission and hourly employee- including International Fortune 500 businesses and local family-owned companies. She has lived both as an ex-patriot and repatriate. She draws from her broad range of educational, employment & living environments to assist clients in staying healthy in their work, school and home settings.
Marie is dedicated to helping people unaccustomed to exercising regularly in becoming more comfortable working with their bodies and finding multiple strategies for staying happy and healthy. Marie assists clients with creating their own wellness practice.
She is a Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga® certified teacher as well as a Let Your Yoga Dance® for Special Populations instructor and Restorative Yoga teacher. She attended Lee Albert, NMT’s Integrated Positional Therapy for Chronic Pain Relief Levels I & II workshops.
Marie is a Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Leader Guide, Level I and offers her clients the chance to connect deeper with nature in their healing process.
She completed Yoga for Addiction at Kripalu.org to be an in-residence volunteer at Emmaus House https://emmaushousesaginaw.com/– a home for women coming out of prison and rehab. While volunteering she obtained certification in Substance Abuse Intervention. She understands it is easy to substitute one addiction for another until one learns mindful strategies for managing triggers.
Marie had the privilege of studying with Anodea Judith, PhD and is a certified Sacred Centers Academy Chakra teacher. She can help you determine where you may be feeling energetically blocked and assist you in releasing those blockages in your wellness journey.
Marie completed her RYT 300 at Living Waters Yoga, a Yoga for Christians Teacher Training program. She includes yoga in her prayer practice, adapting yoga flows with familiar prayers, such as “The Lord’s Prayer,” for chair and floor formats.
Marie attended The Omega and Nosara Institutes’ 200-hour Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training™ program (now Self Awakening Yoga) with Amba Stapleton and the late Don Stapleton, PhD (Brahmanand).
Marie is also certified in Restorative Yoga, Yoga Fit™ for Seniors and Silver Sneakers ® Yoga and has taught yoga in memory care centers.
Marie is a Sidha who practices Transcendental Meditation TM techniques.
Marie also learned SKY breath at The Art of Living
Marie, as a certified Divine Sleep ® Yoga Nidra Teacher, provides stress relieving Yoga Nidra mediation to her clients
As a Reiki Master (Holy Fire III® and Karuna Reiki® certifications with William Lee Rand.) Marie offers Reiki training and/or includes non-touch Reiki in her yoga classes and distant Reiki in her wellness sessions.
Marie is bilingual, French/English and holds a PhD in International Education from New York University.
Marie is available for:
- Individual and Group Health Coaching sessions
- Individual and Group Yoga Classes
- Event Speaking engagements
Most coaching sessions will be held virtually, via HIPAA compliant secured network
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