12/05/2025
🪷Meet Lotus Yoga Teacher of the Month Marissa Helena!🪷
🌱Marissa completed her 200 hr Trauma Informed YTT certification in summer of 2024 at Lotus Yoga Studios under Ren Farenga-Kosmidis. Her experiences with chronic pain and neurodivergence drew her to this community and she has truly found a home here. These aspects of her lived experience inform her teaching and movement style, and she feels grateful to share a soft spot for others to land.
🌱 Marissa has a background in child care, education, sociology, and dance - all of which influence her open-minded and fluid style of teaching. She aims to create practices that are approachable for all, regardless of ability or background, while offering little challenges to help bring students back into their bodies safely.
🌱 She is passionate about the connection to self and stepping outside of the strong current of our social world. She often incorporates oracle cards in her practices, an offering for any student who feels called to connect with themselves and their practice in this way. In her own spiritual practice, she uses oracle and tarot cards, along with movement and astrology.
🌱 A lover of animals, nature, and all things magickal, Marissa always has a theme incorporated into each of her practices. Whether she is inspired by the fluidity of water, the grounding of trees, or the dark whimsy of Samhain, you will have something larger to connect to in her classes, if you so choose.
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