Mariko Hirakawa is an Internationally recognized Yoga-Ayurveda Expert with 26 years of teaching experience. She’s the founder of Visionary Yoga, an interdisciplinary approach to Peak Performance and Personal Mastery that blends the ancient wisdom of Yoga & Ayurvedic Traditions with the latest research on brain science and personal development. She works with business leaders and entrepreneurs to create a highly attuned physical, mental and emotional state for optimal performance.
A former professional ballet dancer in New York City and an Ayurvedic physician trained in India, she bridges the artistic and the scientific as a Master Healer, Yoga teacher, and a trainer of leaders.
Since 1999, Mariko has been traveling to India to study Yoga, Ayurveda and allied disciplines with renowned masters in their fields.
In 2003, the experience of working with numerous terminally ill patients caused her to apply for and win a fellowship grant to study Ayurveda, the ancient Indian healing science, at one of the top universities in India.
Proficient in Hindi and Sanskrit, she is one of the very few in the West to have completed the rigorous 5 ½ year B.A.M.S. Medical degree in Ayurvedic Medicine.
Today she is dedicated to bringing the depth dimension back to Yoga, not just as a “workout” that belongs in gyms and fitness studios, but as the ultimate technology for human consciousness evolution.
She is the creator of the online curriculum “The 30 Day Visionary Yoga Challenge”, and an in-demand media guest who has appeared on ABC7 News, numerous Yoga Festivals, and a guest speaker selected to interview Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of India’s great contemporary Gurus.
When she is not conducting retreats and trainings around the world, Mariko runs a unique private coaching practice in New York City, working with large corporations, business leaders, and entrepreneurs to find their peak performance on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions so they can take their personal and business evolution to the Next Level.
Did you know that what we call “yoga” today is NOT actually Yoga?
“Yoga” in the West right now is actually a sub-sub branch, a tiny fragment of the larger system of Yoga, and its positioning solely as a physical fitness modality is keeping its revolutionary, DNA-changing technology locked up in gyms, yoga studios and spas.
Despite the fact that 36 MILLION people are now “practicing yoga” in the U.S.A., spending $16 BILLION a year on yoga wear, gear and services,
we have only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the deeper transformation Yoga can truly create in our world.
It has spread wide, but it has not evolved deeper.
Today the world needs the revolutionary (and evolutionary) inner technology that “Yoga” with a capital “Y” has to offer more than ever.
The real Yoga is about TURNING ON your nervous system and tapping into the Matrix of Existence that is a scintillating, ALIVE, super-intelligent Presence that can literally heal lifetimes of negative patterns.
Let me share with you what I discovered through my journey from being a professional ballet and modern dancer in New York City to meeting and studying with enlightened Yoga Master to living in India for 7 years studying Yoga, Ayurveda and Sanskrit as a fellowship scholar, and now serving business professionals, owners and leaders in corporate America.
LEADERSHIP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT THEMES:
– Inner Yoga For Leaders: Radical Alignment with your Purpose and Vision.
– The Power of Adopting The Beginner’s Mind: Fostering Innovation, Creativity & Harmony at the Workplace
– The Yoga of Leadership: Heightening Emotional Intelligence Through Somatic Release
BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
– Yoga & Essentialism: The Art of Narrowing Your Focus And Achieving Exponentially More
– Productivity Hacks with Soul: Peak Performance Lessons from the Yoga Masters (Yoga & Ayurvedic)
– Discipline & Freedom: Yogic Insights For the Entrepreneur
HEALTH & WELLNESS:
– Ayurveda: The Medicine of Self-Discovery
– Reading the Energy of Food Ayurvedically
– Rejuvenation Revolution: 6 Essential Steps to Anti-Aging Through Yoga and Ayurveda
SPIRITUALITY:
– Yoga and the Art of Manifesting Your Dreams: Awaken the Inner Visionary and Take Your Dreams Off the Back burner
– The Highly Attuned Body: Yogic Insights on Creating A Radically Aligned Life
– How to Heal Negative Patterns and Burn the Seeds of Karma Forever
Myself along with two other leading Yoga Instructors interviewing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a humanitarian, spiritual leader and founder of The Art of Living Foundation:
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My schedule varies from day to day, being an entrepreneur! Please email or text me regarding my availability. The time table I listed here is just a generality:)
