Hi, I’m Mariana
Yoga Teacher, Life & Mindfulness Coach and Founder of Alive as Life
Qualifications
Certified Transformative Coach - International Coaching Federation
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) Certified Teacher - Mindfulness Training Institute
MBSR Programme - Mindfulness Aotearoa
Science of Wellbeing Course - Yale University
Certified Yoga Teacher - The Heart of Yoga
Humanistic Therapist. Specialized in the Person-Centred and Gestalt psychotherapies - Humanistic Institute of Gestalt Psychotherapy - In progress
Earlier career in International Tax & Programme Management:
Bachelor in Accounting - Panamerican University, Mexico
Specialisation in Portfolio Management - Stock Market Institute, Madrid
Postgraduate in Business - Whitireia New Zealand
Programme Management Diploma - University of Auckland
What am I even here for?
This was a question that I was sitting with for more than 10 years. I could not find a reason for living.
I left Mexico about 10 years ago and moved to New Zealand for many very good reasons like safety, quality of life, work-life balance, and so on… but, without knowing, in fact, I left Mexico in search of freedom. I had a strong desire to get away from the patterns of my family, my society and cultur and in the peace of my solitude, find who I really was. I began to sort through what belonged to me and what didn’t, and to create a life that felt mine; a life that my body wanted to live.
Tired of living for the weekend, the holidays, a trip, a position, or material wealth I started to create a way of living that felt like an extension of my heart.
In New Zealand, I left behind accounting and started new careers a few times, in search of my “purpose”. For the first few years, I jumped from one thing to the other without really finding my way. Like pressing start on the cd player, then stop, then eject. Inserting a new disk and starting all over again.
The Practices of Yoga, Coaching, and Meditation allowed me to get in touch with my Self and see clearly. In this way I not only could see the path I wanted to follow, but also reconnected with a sense of wholeness, safety, purpose, and the joy of living my life. it was as if I had put the needle on the record player and the music had started playing to the beat of my heart.
I had been looking for answers outside of myself; in another country, in a different lifestyle, in other cultures, in a different career, and even in an external power like the universe or a God that inhabits the sky.
But I was mistaken, the answers were already within me. I already am what I was looking for and there is no state of wholeness I need to get to, when I already am, and have always been, whole. I am life itself and therefore I can trust my life.
Coaching and therapeutic conversations, to:
Create space for those parts of us that hurt and that very frequently go unnoticed and dismissed, so that they too, properly belong in this experience of being alive. In this way, we can clearly see them, feel them, heal them and in doing so, muster the courage to move towards living a life we love.
Enable the investigation and self-inquiry required to map your way and muster your strength to move towards the life that your heart desires.
I became a Yoga teacher and a Life & Mindfulness coach because I have been in a painful place of not finding peace, joy, fulfilment, and purpose in my life.
Yoga, Life coaching, and Mindfulness helped me find that within my Self. So, what greater joy could I experience than helping others find that within themselves too?
offer a safe space for others to reconnect with their life, through:
A yoga practice, so you tune into the life and wisdom that you already are.
The ability to listen to your life in the stillness of meditation, and participate in the ease, peace, and safety that is innate to your being.
When I am not teaching, coaching, or practicing yoga, you can find me dancing the night away or playing games with friends, the funnier the game the better so I can cry out laughing. I also love being in the water and spending time with my partner Alexander who is my absolute delight :)
I am Mexican, lived in New Zealand for seven years, and am currently living with my partner in Fiji.
"Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden." "In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
