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About Mara
Mara Wai, M.Ed. is a mind-body coach who supports her clients to align attention and energy for healing, growth and self-transformation. With mindfulness and mind-body tools, her clients deepen awareness of mind and body conditioned patterns that exacerbate pain, prolong suffering or are no longer resonant with what they want in life. Her clients come to experience greater ease in body, clarity in mind and a grounded sense of self-trust to discern and take just-right life actions.
I help you learn simple and powerful methods to change your life.
Feeling invites healing.
Desperate for relief after my brother’s sudden and untimely death, I began practicing yoga, which led me to train to teach yoga to others in 1998 with the Himalayan Institute. Yoga grounded me in an awareness of the connection between breath, body and mind and helped me to unwind lifelong tension patterns. After teaching yoga through my graduate school years and maintaining a personal practice, I was led to delve deeper into mindfulness-based forms of meditation. In 2005, I began working with the Penn Program for Mindfulness. From 2012-2022 I facilitated Mindfulness-based Stress Management programs for the Penn Program and learned and practiced with a number of wonderful teachers, including Marcy Vaughn, who has been my mentor since 2013. In 2014 I trained with Martha Beck in her certified Wayfinder Life Coach Training. I then trained with and was endorsed by Abigail Morgan as a Master Mind-body Coach and supported Abigail as an instructor in her 2019 and 2021 Mind-Body Coach Trainings and her 2020 Mastery Mind-Body Coach Training. I trained in Integrative Energy Therapy, Reiki, energy reading and nervous system regulation methods with NICABM, Deb Dana and Jeffrey Rutstein. My coaching framework draws on my mind-body and meditation training and practice. My inspiration in this work is to liberate myself and others from suffering.
