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About Embodied Wisdom
Embodied Wisdom is explicitly focused on providing educational opportunities for individuals and organizations, including non-profits, community-based organizations, and social service agencies. Our programs are designed to support personal development and self-care and to provide participants with new ways of connecting to one another and their deepest sense of purpose and well-being.
Embodied Wisdom incorporates the following five practices into their programs
Aligning with Purpose
and Vision
defining and intentionally aligning to what brings our life meaning and joy to create the world we long for
Personalized Self-Care
mindfulness practices, movement, and wellness strategies to integrate into the moments we need them most to reduce burnout to thrive and not just survive
Embodying Awareness
cultivating wisdom, resiliency, and agency through mindfulness, inquiry, and practice
Mindful Communication
developing skills for deep connection, courageous listening and speaking, honesty, and empathy
Developing Connection
creating a culture of compassion and respect for ourselves, each other, our communities, and our planet
We Provide
About Our Founders
Mindfulness, Yoga, Coaching
Mayuri Gonzalez
Mayuri Gonzalez is an integrative movement therapist and yoga and meditation teacher who began her own journey studying yoga, meditation, and mindfulness over 25 years ago when she was just 10 years old.
Mayuri focuses on the integration of breath, mudra, movement, and internal awareness to help her clients move without pain and reclaim an embodied relationship to their soma as a powerful resource to inner resilience. She is trained in vinyasa, chair, yin, prenatal, restorative, and gentle somatic yoga (Hannah Somatics) and tends to focus on more restorative, gentle, accessible pathways to practice. She encourages all people, no matter the physical challenges present, to try yoga because yoga has something to offer everyone!
A firm advocate of the healing powers of yoga and to support folks in harnessing the healing power of yoga to manage the collective trauma and loss experiences living in and through the pandemic, Mayuri began on a two-year 800-hour extensive yoga therapy training program with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy in 2020. She has both worked and studied extensively on somatics, chronic pain, cancer survivors, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, structural yoga therapy, sports injury, seniors, and addiction.
Through continuous personal transformation and deep connection with the heart, Mayuri hopes to share the limitless possibilities of yoga with all people no matter the condition or symptoms present. Offering a place to learn tools for wellness, each of her private therapeutic yoga sessions is tailored to the unique needs of her clients and use yoga practices including asana (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), guided relaxation, and meditation among others
Currently, she teaches 5 virtual classes weekly and works with organizations, senior centers, and private clients and serves as the School Yoga Project Director and Teacher Trainer for Little Flower Yoga (www.littlefloweryoga.com).
Mindfulness
Argos Gonzalez
Argos Gonzalez is a teacher, lecturer, and mindfulness and yoga instructor. He has 14 years of experience teaching high school in the Bronx and teaches pre-service and in-service teachers at Hunter College School of Education in NY. Argos is certified through both Mindful Schools and Little Flower Yoga (LFY), and currently serves as the director of professional development for The School Yoga Project, a program of LFY and Lead Teacher for Mindful School’s Mindful Teacher yearlong certification program.
Argos was a contributing editor to Best Practices for Yoga in Schools, and his work has been featured in national media including NPR and The Atlantic. As a frequent speaker at conferences including the Kripalu Yoga in Schools Symposium, Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth, the Omega Mindfulness in Education Conference and the Yoga Service Conference, Argos is an important member of the yoga in schools community and a trusted expert with a foot in both the yoga, mindfulness, and education worlds.
His deep passion for empowering children and adolescents, and supporting other education professionals to do the same, is clearly evident in all aspects of his work.
“Some people were born to teach, to connect & to inspire. Mayuri & Argos are those people. Come home to yourself & feel connected through their teachings.”
Sally Arnold
About Our Collaborating Team
Mindfulness, Mindful Parenting
Nicole Libin
Dr. Nicole Libin is a certified mindfulness educator, adjunct professor, and author. She has designed and facilitated mindfulness curricula and other courses for Mindful Schools, Mount Royal University, and numerous private organizations. She co-created the Mindful Schools’ Mindful Teacher Certification program and has been its Lead Teacher for the past two years, training and certifying the next generation of mindful educators. Her doctorate in Religious Studies allows her to offer a unique perspective on meditation, incorporating a variety of traditions and approaches to her teaching.
Nicole has been certified by both Mindful Schools and MBSR for teens, has trained with The Meditation Initiative, and has completed the UMass Center for Mindfulness Professional Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training in Mind-Body Medicine with Jon Kabat-Zinn. Nicole has experience working with adults, adolescents and children; prenatal groups; sports camps; government agencies; university faculty and students, professionals, and anyone else who will let her stop and take a breath with them.
Nicole is the author of three books on mindfulness. Her children’s book Sticky Brains, a mindfulness and brain science picture book for children will be published in early 2020. Her other two books, Mindful Parenting in a Chaotic World and 5-Minute Mindfulness Meditations for Teens are available on Amazon.
Nicole lives in Calgary with her husband Cam and her daughter Aria (who continues to be her best mindfulness teacher and weighted blanket).
Nicole encourages students to find what works for them, recognizing that one path does not fit everyone. She focuses on inspiring students to trust their own wisdom and find stillness in their bodies, hearts, and minds.