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What is Wellness Coaching?

Instead of giving medical diagnosis or prescription—I assist clients with living a wellness lifestyle so that illness can be prevented and a greater experience of vitality and happiness can be maintained. I don't even give advice—even though I have much alternative health information to share. I help people to see their many health options (including the expertise of various health professionals), make clear choices based upon their own inner-resonance, and follow through with their commitment to living a healthier lifestyle.   Yet, discovering what to do to be healthier is not enough.  Many don’t know how to stay motivated to replace their old, less healthy lifestyle habits with healthier ones.  As a coach, I help people follow through for themselves as they have never done before.  

Joa Marcu, MA. Wellness Coach

My interest in wellness began at the age of seventeen, when I had a severe motorcycle wreck. I was told by the doctors that I would be permanently disabled, and would certainly never run again- if I was lucky enough to walk. I healed unusually fast and went on to became a long distance runner. I had also had asthma my entire childhood.  The asthma went away when I learned to retrain my breathing while walking and jogging. After that three months in the hospital, my life became awesome in every way. Before that time, I was very unhappy with my life. I have often reflected upon what caused this dramatic positive change. I have been fascinated with the healing process ever since. I went on to study the following therapies and disciplines:

Fitness Instructor and Aerobic Exercise Specialist

Nutritionist and Iridologist

Massage Therapist (Swedish, Esalan, Neuromuscular, Acupressure, Polarity and Reiki)

Herbal Intestinal Cleansing (click for the article) and Colonic Irrigation Therapist

Hatha and Kundalini Yoga Instructor

Yoga Studio Owner (Illumination Yoga in Tarzana California)

Meditation Instructor

Breath Coach ... To learn how changing your breathing, changes your life, see the articles:

     Breathing for Whole Life Fitness, and Learning Diaphragmatic Breathing

Graduate of the Coaches Training Institute

Spiritual Psychologist:  I am a graduate of the University of Santa Monica, with a Masters degree in Spiritual Psychology. In this program, I learned how spiritual awareness induces healing and happiness.

From a spiritual psychology perspective, healing involves applying love to the hurt. Since energy directed by thought creates or re-organizes form, disease originates from a person’s inner dis-ease caused by fear based beliefs that were learned.  These negative interpretations of reality can be unlearned, as we realize that the only true power of the universe and in ourselves is love.  Our suffering is caused by the forgetting of the unlimited love that surrounds us and is in us.  Spiritual Psychology awakens our consciousness to our inherent innocence and unlimited power. That power is our loving spiritual essence. We heal as we realize our inherent goodness, and direct our loving to those parts of ourselves that are disturbed or caught in fear. As a wellness coach, I teach clients suffering from depression and other mental challenges methods of loving the painful places in themselves. Through practical experiences that can be replicated, spiritual psychology indicates that suffering is a “cry for love”, and when love is truly felt, the suffering is released.

Once a person’s suffering has been relieved, I help them to shift their attention away from what appears to be “wrong” to what feels good and wholesome. We utilize the spiritual  Law of Attraction to focus on what we want to expand. Instead of attracting more of what we don’t want by obsessing on what seems “wrong” about our lives or ourselves, we focus on the good things about our lives and ourselves, how to live a more fulfilling and vital life, and on following through with inspired healthy activities on a daily basis.

Joa Practices at 15 Marie St. Sausalito, CA 94965  415-887-9586  joa@miraclecoach.com

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