I am a certified Sex, Love and Relationship Coach
I also have 10,000 hours in somatic and energetic bodywork as a Tantrika, massage therapist and BodyTalk practitioner.
I have been going down a spiritual rabbit hole since I was 20 yrs old, journeying into psychism and Christian mysticism before studying Eastern Religions while doing my Applied Social Science degree at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
After that I lived and worked in South Korea, steeping myself in the tradition of Zen Buddhism as it is practiced there.
I also travelled extensively through India, where I experienced the ancient mysticism of the religions I had studied in university. It was in India that I did my first Goenka Vipassana meditation course, which changed my life.
I returned to Canada where I ended up training in massage therapy, then in BodyTalk consciousness based energy therapy. The BodyTalk system is actually a brilliant healing system rooted in ancient Advaita Vedanta philosophy and Chinese Medicine and is combined with modern science and several therapeutic modalities.
As my mind’s edges continued to be pushed, this prepared me for further self-development training in the life sciences of the BodyTalk System. In Breakthrough, I experienced the healing nature of conflict while learning a tried and true method to work through triggers and the overreactions of life.
This led to Freefall where I could almost see the masks fall as I allowed my true nature to show. In BodyTalk people coin Freefall as “the naked course”. The Life Sciences courses are optional. Nobody forced me, but my own evolution finally lined up with the Universe and I did two levels back to back.
It was one of the most intense and liberating experiences of my life
Six months later, I started to experience a kundalini awakening.
In the BodyTalk world, kundalini is nothing out of the ordinary. The founder of this brilliant energy therapy system worked on many people while their kundalini got spontaneously activated. In classes we got used to seeing people getting treated by him start to jerk and convulse their bodies involuntarily while they were on the massage table, as they integrated his powerful energy treatment.
But it had never happened to me until 2012, 6 months after my Freefall courses. I thought I was dying. All of my muscles started randomly twitching. If this was kundalini, it was different from what I had seen in the BodyTalk classes, because these were little muscle twitches and were not so visible. But I could feel them, and they were non stop. I freaked out.
I drove myself to emergency and the doctor got my blood checked, got me in for an MRI and referred me to a neurologist. The MRI showed I was fine. She said the twitches were idiopathic (no known cause) and that there was no treatment for them. I didn’t feel comfortable talking kundalini with her, but I had to rule out other medical possibilities.
My sex drive was relentless, I dropped 20 pounds in 2 months, like it just melted off. I started running, yoga, dancing and masturbating to try to control the excess energy that was coursing through me. I changed my lifestyle and made new friends. I had to.
During this period I received a BodyTalk session from its founder, who confirmed that it was indeed kundalini energy, but he said it wasn’t too extreme and that it would eventually settle down. And it did, about 2 years later.
Since then it ebbs and flows, rising up in various highly charged occasions, many times while I am sexual.
But not like it did back then.
I found it intriguing that my experience seemed to set off kundalini awakenings in several of my BodyTalk clients at the time. I realized how intense this power of sexual energy can be!
So it was this life altering experience that led me to seek out Tantra.
First I found Tantrika training, and then I found Layla Martin and her VITA™ Sex, Love and Relationship coaching course.
That started a two and a half year journey that went deeper than I had ever experienced before into my own sexuality.
Then I discovered the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) through two of my coaching peers, and soon I was off to Brazil training level 1 deep in the Brazilian jungle.
My training has taken me deep into my own sexual healing journey, pushing more and more of my personal edges.
All of this work and these modalities have helped me work through the ups and downs of my sexual history. The things that I would rather forget about, or didn’t really have the tools to work through. Things that are deep and complex that take revisiting over and over to integrate into my current sexuality.
This work has given me the gift of working through the many layers of guilt and shame and rejection that have been locked in my body.
From what I remember, these feelings started for me at the age of 11. They seemed to coincide with my new found sexual curiosity as I approached puberty and started exploring porn magazines and books that I found in my parents’ room.
Then at 13 I experienced sexual trauma while I was in the care of a trusted family member. This changed my sexual life forever.
I started having sex soon after, feeling like I was ‘ready’. I definitely was not ready.
I also had incredible body shame as I had to wear a body brace for most of my teenage years due to scoliosis.
Then came even more shame and guilt around experiencing STIs and unwanted pregnancies.
I became great at performing sex and faking orgasms while I remained anorgasmic until the age of 30.
Layers upon layers of shame and guilt! I believed that somehow I was being punished and that I did not deserve orgasmic love and sex.
Since my kundalini awakening in 2012, my sexual healing has escalated and I realized I had no choice but pay attention to my sexuality. I could no longer ignore this vital aspect of myself. It is a part of me that needs and in fact demands attention, love, acceptance, and even reverence.
Tantra brought this full love and acceptance to my whole body, my mind and spirit. After exploring so many spiritual paths where sexuality was shunned, glossed over or ignored, for the first time..
Tantra helped to embrace my sexuality. I realized I was not broken.
Slowly, over time, through doing these practices I have started to acknowledge, transform, and dissolve the layers of shame, guilt, lack and judgement that was deeply embedded in my body and mind.
It’s a life long process which has given me the gift of sexuality, vitality, and compassion that runs deep and wide.
A little more about my coaching training
Layla Martin’s VITA™ Sex, Love and Relationship Coaching Certification is offered through the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. VITA stands for the Vital and Integrated Tantric Approach to coaching.
This exclusive methodology combines the deep wisdom of Tantra with scientifically validated methods for transformation.
It is an arduous 650 hour training that took me 2 1/2 years to complete. I received the core coaching certification plus two majors (Men’s Sexuality and Women’s Sexuality).
The Vita™ Coaching Method is the most in-depth and advanced sex, love and relationship coaching certification in the world.
Photo taken at coaching retreat in Mexico
Qualifications
Experience
Aside from coaching, I have experience in a number of fields related to communication with the human body and mind. I have spent years perfecting these arts and will use my knowledge and expertise to provide you with a coaching experience unlike any other.
Testimonials
Here's what some of my previous clients had to say.
Working with Marie for the past 10 weeks unraveling deeper depths of my original essence has been nothing short of life changing. Marie holds such a loving and compassionate presence that makes me feel so safe to go to places I’ve never gone before in my healing. I have done many different modalities of therapy, but none which have been as transformative as the integrative process of this work. I feel more deeply attuned to my body, more ignited to my own turn on in all aspects of my life, and like a Queen who has finally awakened to her own true value and worth, accepting the power of all that she is. I have learned to nurture myself in ways I’ve never imagined possible by sourcing love within myself. Marie is a true gift in this work and you feel her commitment to it through every session. Her own beauty, wisdom, and potent sexual nature become an invitation (as opposed to any threat) of what is possible in sacred, sovereign sexuality because she so lovingly guides you to taste it and claim if for yourself. If you are reading this, I highly recommend you work with Marie!
- Tia E.
Wendy is an amazing coach who makes you feel so safe and heard. I wanted to expand my orgasmic capacity away from just clitoral orgasms or ways that my body was used to. I wanted to embrace full spectrum sexuality in my whole body. Through our sessions, Wendy helped me build trust in myself, my body and my partner, and my orgasmic experience and sexuality skyrocketed! I highly recommend her.
- Ann N.
“Come back to your body,” she urged. Self-compassion, not self-disgust. Open-minded tenderness, not iron-fisted judgement.
And thus I felt a most epiphanic return via her soul-stirring “Five Senses Reality” method.
All I can say is . . .
“You, Marie, are the wondrous depth and strength and beauty that you see in us. Remember and resource, right now and into eternity.”
- Elle K.
Marie Wagner is very intuitive in her approach to coaching. Her style was flexible to meet me where I was at in the moment. When I needed to vent and be heard, she held space and listened. When I needed some structure, she gently guided me back into a practices that helped me process, integrate, and release my fears, hang ups, and blockages. I will definitely work with her again! I see our time together as something that can shift and evolve as I grow.
-Nicole C.
Marie does a magical job at creating a sacred environment where you feel safe and comfortable. She goes over in fine detail what you would like the outcome of the sessions to be and fully customizes them to suit your needs. There really is no limit to what you can achieve with her, whether it be for personal growth, strengthening the relationship you have with your partner, or a combination of both. She has a unique way of teaching which combines patience and passion, allowing you to work at your own pace. I never felt rushed or pressured to do anything I wasn't comfortable with. Ultimately in the end I walked away with valuable skills that have opened my mind and body up to new possibilities.
If you are looking to ignite the creative expression inside of you, I highly recommend you explore a one on one coaching package with Marie!
- Dillon T.
I have always been interested in alternative pathways through life. Experience shouldn't be limited to what you read in newspapers and what you see on television. Marie's coaching sessions were filled with interesting exercises that heighten your awareness of your mind and its connection to your sexuality. Real thinking-outside-the-box kind of stuff. It will leave a positive impression on you. And a better guide through this would be hard to find. Marie's smiling face and relaxing voice were great encouragement during some of the more challenging moments. I can recommend this course for anybody looking to get more out of their meditation and more out of their minds/bodies
- Perry G.
Before I started my sessions with Marie, I believed that I was having good sex. I was so wrong! This course opened my eyes to a whole new world of sex and understanding of how energy is transferred from one human being to another. This course redefined the meaning of the sex act for me forever and I will never be the same person before I started. It also helped me define what type of relationship that I want for my future.
To all the males that take this course and you watch a lot of porn, you need this in your life! When I was done with the ten coaching sessions, I was desensitized to porn and it's absolutely amazing. Once I hit this point things really changed. I gained so much confidence in bed and in normal day to day life. It has also given me the confidence to approach more girls not only at clubs and bars but anywhere I go. I walked away with some really great tools and practices that I can use for the rest of my life. I can constantly work on my own sexual energy and relationships. For that reason, I am so grateful and thankful that I got the chance to learn these techniques from Marie, because I will be using them for the rest of my life.
- Patrick S.