Hi, I'm Maria

I began practicing yoga in 2011 shortly before graduating from high school. I stuck to it the following year when I got hit with intense anxiety and panic attacks. Yoga and breathwork were major ways that helped me through those panic attacks. I decided to learn most of my yoga practice a home (with the help of old yoga DVDs my mom had at home, to then moving to Youtube and finding Yoga With Adriene). I absolutely loved the freedom I felt from practicing yoga in my own home, getting to explore so much more deeply than I would in a public class. 

Fast forward to me working in corporate for a few years when my panic attacks returned with things associated to my work. I tried to fight it and worked through, only to experience absolute burnout. I experienced burnout for the first time. I felt like I was running on no energy, no motivation, and no. This time I turned to meditation to help me change my internal world but also to help me understand enough to change my external world. I made a decision to put a pause on my corporate life when it happened again and took a yoga teacher training as a way to help me understand all of the tools that have helped me along the way. 

I trained to earn my 200-hour yoga certification (all online just as the pandemic started in 2019!). I began teaching friends and family. I went back to working in my previous field of digital marketing – back to corporate, but this time with a new set of boundaries and tools to help me prevent burnout, and work-related anxiety, and find relief from that bad stress. 

Now, I also help people who suffer from anxiety or stress with tools from yoga that I have learned and used to help me. I offer online yoga at home for anyone who wants to start, explore, or advance their yoga practice at home. I have a youtube channel where I post weekly, and an instagram where I share my yoga practice, my thoughts, and my yoga + sustainability tips.

I’m looking forward to hosting yoga and meditation retreats in Costa Rica and Colorado soon! (In addition to my online, at-home yoga practice).

A little more about me:

I am also a digital advertiser, a content creator (passionate about sustainability & yoga), and I also mentor people who are starting their own online business (I help with google ads, facebook ads, instagram ads, website creation, landing page creation, email automation, and lead generation). I am passionate about health, sustainability and traveling!