Maria loves people, she loves building community, hearing folks’ stories, and working with someone on their healing journey. She is interested in pain conditions, digestion, women’s health including fertility, and how emotions are stored in the body on the cellular level.

What happens when we experience physical or emotional trauma? Something stopping really fast that shouldn’t? When you look at matter on the cellular level, atoms are comprised of a whole lot of electrons whizzing around that core. So really the building blocks of life are primarily electromagnetic repulsion – that’s not “empty space” in between.

Acupuncture is an ancient medicine looking at the energetic pathways of the body and how blockages contribute to pain and other internal conditions. Like a holistic approach to the body, whole plant medicine uses all the constituents of the plant to contribute to full body resonance.

She’d love to work with you. Let’s be curious together.

Maria loves people, she loves building community, hearing folks’ stories, and working with someon... Read More

My yoga journey began with a gentle nudge in 2000—though my first Ashtanga class nearly sent me running! Fortunately, I discovered alignment-based yoga the following year in a Bikram class, and everything clicked, I was hooked. Within months, I was in teacher training in Iyengar style, and I’ve never looked back.

Over 20+ years and 840 hours of training later, I’ve studied everything from restorative yoga to yoga nidra to Budokon, with tai chi and qigong rounding out my movement practices. I’ve had the privilege of teaching many students and training new instructors to share this transformative practice

My yoga journey began with a gentle nudge in 2000—though my first Ashtanga class nearly sent me r... Read More