Darlene started her journey with yoga in 1998 while working full time as a mechanical engineer. With the stress of work and the emotional hardship of losing her mother to Ovarian Cancer, Darlene turned to yoga to help find balance in her life and to simply maintain her health and sanity. With encouragement from her yoga teacher, Fern Meierding, and after experiencing the incredible effects of yoga in her own life, Darlene knew she had to share the gift of yoga with others.
Darlene completed her 500hr advanced yoga teacher certification in Hatha Yoga from the Himalayan Institute and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. As a perpetual student, Darlene has also taken various workshops with senior teachers such as Shari Friedrickson, Judith Lasater, Rod Stryker, and Doug Keller.
After seeing the benefits yoga offered moms struggling with the discomforts of pregnancy, she completed an additional 200hr prenatal and postnatal yoga certification through Collete Crawford, co-founder of the Seattle Holistic Center.
Darlene finally retired from engineering to follow her passion for health and healing. She graduated from the Baltimore School of Massage where she studied Swedish, Deep Tissue, Myofascial, Asian bodywork, and integrative massage techniques. She earned the Director's Honor Award in Special Recognition of Academic Achievement.
Again with a passion for nuturing pregnant mothers and their babies, she received her prenatal, postnatal, and labor/delivery massage certification through Carole Osborne Sheets, AMTA's 2008 Teacher of the Year.
Darlene is continuing to expand her skills apprenticing with Reiki Master Christine Crandall and through numerous workshops training with John F. Barnes for Myofasical Release. Taditional massage, energy work and most recently lots of Myofascial Release, have helped Darlene overcome her own post pregnancy, post injury back problems and she's seeing the same levels of success with her clients.
Darlene holds a license in therapeutic massage from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB), is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), and is licensed by the State of Maryland.
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