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ABOUT FUNCTIONAL YOGA

When something functions – it serves its purpose. Mary’s offering of functional Massage, Yoga & Dreams the Edge’s Guided Journeys bring out the best in you, so that you may be guide by your true ‘Self” and live out your purpose. Mary’s focuses on helping relax & feel supported to explore & integrate all parts of their life, including the shadow parts, towards a greater sense of wholeness.

“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer.”

Stephen Porges

“To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.”

Carl Jung

“When parts are listened to, loved, and respected, they relax inside, which opens space. This is the way that IFS quiets the mind… once the mind is emptied, Self emerges spontaneously”

Richard Schwartz

Supporting your path towards wholeness she blends wisdom practices from all around the world with somatic body-work, massage, yoga & western body/mind practices to create ‘Functional Yoga’ a form of yoga that meets the sophisticated needs of where we are today.

Mary offers treatments & practices from her comfortable & spacious treatment studio in the heart of Strathroy, Ontario – and – regularly travels to offer her practice offsite in retreats, homes & businesses throughout London, Toronto & Southern Ontario.

About Mary Foran

Mary has taught yoga for 18years full of heart and with a passion to cultivate compassionate awareness. Certified Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher (RYT), Certified in Thai Yoga Massage and as a Medical Exercise Specialist (MES) Mary instructs safe alignment-focused classes and bodywork using the disciplines of Iyengar, Anusara, Kripalu and Restorative Yoga along with therapeutic movement practices to create classes that heal, strengthen and inspire. Mary is also a Reiki Level 1 practitioner and has completed a 3 year Training in Transpersonal Studies, trained in; Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Pre-Natal Yoga, Non-Violent Communications, Meditation, Shamanic Energy Work and has completed several trainings with Woman Within to support her endeavours to cultivate conscious community. Mary’s is grateful for the insight & empowerment she has gained through the great works of : Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Stephen Porges, Richard Schwartz, Anodea Judith, Alan Watts, Terrence McKenna & Ram Dass and many other beings that have contributed their Transpersonal knowledge & gifts living a deeply meaningful and effective life.

Experienced, sensitive & compassionate, Mary’s energy is weaved into a mindfulness-style of teaching and care that offers students and recipients ways to develop healthy and fulfilling self-care practices blending Yoga, Transpersonal, Buddhist and Shamanic practices to develop the mind & body. She has specialized in Restorative Yoga for 18 years in studios, private classes, workshops and Yoga Teacher Training programs where she has taught over 9,000 yoga classes and has had the opportunity to train 400 yoga teachers her specialized practice of Restorative Yoga in Yoga Teacher Training programs. Well-versed in anatomy and movement therapies you can expect to learn proper physical alignment and gain greater self-awareness while healing, expanding and excelling your body and mind.

Mary lives with Walter Sienko, her partner of 20years, in the heart of Strathroy, Ontario. They met in during their 3 year Transpersonal Training and since then have carried out their healing focus through various individual and community offerings. They have hosted drum circles, meditation circles, purification lodges, trance dances and offered various healing ceremonies. They currently combine their life-long passion towards connection & healing by offering conscious practices from their 3.5Acre homestead called “Equanimity”. Equanimity is their life-works to cultivate sustainable eco-spiritual ways of living where they keep bees & maintain sustainable food, medicine & pollination gardens. Walter Sienko runs men’s groups and is a Transpersonal Guide offering powerful guidance & support through counsel and customized healing journeys.

~FOR ALL RELATIONS~

Let us create the world we all desire . . .

. . a world of companionate awareness,

wholeness & equanimity that empowers

ourselves, each other & our planet!

We cultivate this empowerment together for healing all present, past & future generations.

!!FOR ALL RELATIONS!!

What People Are Saying About Mary

"I travel extensively with a very demanding schedule and always looked forward to my yoga practice with Mary as a great stress reducer. Through her expert guidance in yoga postures, meditation and breathing practices my flexibility has improved and I am able unblock vital energy, allowing me to regroup and direct my efforts more consciously and efficiently."

Monica Merz

President, Toys "R" Us, Japan

“We are human beings. Mary gets that! We are spirit and we have bodies and minds that need care. Thru stretching, movement, poses and counter-stretches Mary takes us on a guided meditation. It does not matter our range of motion, we move in concert to her expert and caring direction. Earthly fears and concerns are set aside for the moment; we focus on a loving intention; all is well and we welcome the rest of our day.”

David Nelson

Proctor and Gamble Yoga group

“My restorative yoga sessions with Mary are a great help to managing my work-related stress as well as relieving my physical aches and pains. As a busy lawyer, my days can be stressful, taking a toll on me both physically as well as mentally. My yoga sessions give me a sense of inner calm and focus, allowing me to focus on my breath and my body as the stress melts away. I also have advanced osteoarthritis in both knees, which causes all sorts of issues in my legs and back. Restorative yoga is kind to my knees while keeping my back and leg muscles stretched and relaxed. As I breath into each pose, I can almost feel the oxygen finding its way into those spots where tension concentrates. I sleep well, and feel great!”