Health & Wellbeing Coaching - Yoga with Marie
A different kind of support: Why women choose coaching
Research shows that even small daily shifts in breath, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, social connection, and time in nature can rewire the brain, restore energy, lift mood and prevent and reduce symptoms of illness and disease. Coaching is about making those shifts feel doable and personal. Coaching can stand alone, or sit beautifully alongside primary care or therapy, as a positive and empowering way to recover balance, joy, and self-agency.
A series of personalised sessions with Marie as your Wellbeing Ally offers a safe, confidential space to explore mindset, movement, and lifestyle changes that help you feel lighter, calmer, and more connected to yourself and what you value most. Together weave the pillars of wellbeing into a science backed plan designed around your goals and your pace. Marie will walk alongside you with patience and encouragement, offering science-backed tools and lived experience so you can build sustainable rhythms and rituals, strengthen resilience, improve sleep and energy, reduce stress, and reclaim the mana of your health and happiness.
Rhythms & Rituals for Lasting Change?
Lasting wellbeing doesn’t come from quick fixes — it grows from the habits we return to daily. Behaviour Change Science calls this habit looping: a cue, a routine, and a reward. In real life: boiling the jug, pausing for abdominal breathing, feeling calm and clear before moving on. Each time we repeat a habit, new brain pathways are becoming stronger — making the behaviour easier, more natural, and part of who we are — your goals & highest values for change driving sustainable change with ease.
So how does Wellbeing Coaching work?
- Sessions are in person and online.
- Choose a 1 month or 3 month plan – see below the options
- You can add personalised yoga led in person by Marie + a recorded version for home.
- Payments are made easily using bank transfer – plans available
Breathe and Begin - 1 Month Support $150
1 x 90min focus session: Set 3 Goals + Clarify the ‘Why’ that will drive your progression + 4 Week Plan + Check List + 3 x 15min check-in calls + Daily text support + A take-home roadmap backed by research, designed for you.
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Marie provides a safe place to gain a deeper understanding of what you hold dear, what is most important to you in your life right now and how you would well-living to play out in your world. Marie will support you to explore your goals, how you will measure your progress and how you will meet challenge along the way – building with you the Coaching and Client collaboration.
Deep Dive - 3 Month Support $360
1 x 90min focus: Discuss your vision & set your initial SMART Goals + Be solid on your ‘WHY’ + 1st mth plan + Check List + 2 x 60min Follow-Up Sessions: Reflect & Refine your next steps: 2nd & 3rd mth revised plans + Check Lists + Science Backed summaries + 8 x 15min check-in calls + texting support.
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Move into your Growth Zone as you dive into your Well Being Coaching Journey with Marie. You’ve already taken a HUGE first step in exploring clarity on what you want. You might still be polishing your vision and determining your next steps. How is it all feeling, what are you ready for now? Celebrate your triumphs, reflect on the challenges and get to the heart of them, grab the gold and the learning challenges offer as you determine what you’re ready for now and what resources you might add to your journey. Marie will be there to support your reflections and as you become curious about your health behaviours and as you determine how you will progress.
Marie will keep you on track to stay connected to what you hold dear, to what’s in your heart as you navigate further with freedom and ease.
Add Your Personalised Yoga $150
Add a Breathe and Balance Personalised Yoga session written & led by Marie in response to your vision of Well-Living: 1 x 30min discussion on your Breath, Body, Mind, Heart & Wairua (spirit) goals + 60min Lead Practice: Trauma Sensitive + Breathe work + Mindfulness + Movement + Meditation + Nidra Yoga (Non Sleep Deep Rest Protocol) + Your session recorded featuring Marie to guide you at home = Meeting Your Capacity + Moving at Your Pace + Release + Strengthen + Open + Ground + Balance/calm/quieten)
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Follow up texts, emails, recommendations, & check-ins where requested. This package is valid for 2 months only (from first session), as it’s intended to support focused and committed inquiry within a specific timeframe. We can of course continue beyond these 3 sessions.
As your coach Marie will place herself at your service, to be a mirror for you, to support and champion you, as you design and implement you own ‘Kete’, toolbox for on-going wellbeing beyond the Coaching Journey.
Breathe and Balance from ‘THE CHAIR’
Breathe and Balance can begin from a chair as mobility is developed over time or across a session. Wheel Chair friends also benefit from bespoke Breathe and Balance & the Wellbeing Coaching Package.
3 x 90minute Sessions
Includes 30mins of B&B + 1hour Wellbeing Coaching – $560
3 x 2hour Sessions
Includes 1 hour of B&B + 1 hour of Wellbeing Coaching – $650
Book to join Marie at MINDs Trust in Moerewa.
Classes and one-to-one
These weekly practices offer the mind, heart and body a regular RESET. It’s an opportunity to release build-up of tension, strengthen self-regulating techniques, build back-up energy stores, and rejuvenate the nervous system. Theyre a good add-on to your week so that you can feel more whole.
How to get there:
You’ll find MINDs Trust Church just after the Simpson Park entrance on SH1, on the right as you are heading to Kawakawa from Moerewa.
Your wellness investment:
10 Week Term Pass $130
3 pass pack $45
5 pass pack $75
Drop in $20
The day sessions on Tuesdays are koha, coin/note donations.
One-to-One Breathe and Balance with Marie
Bespoke Breath and Balance is designed to suit ‘where you are at’ and the current needs of your body, mind, heart and spirit.
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You choose how soft or how dynamic you would like to work. You may be seeking a ‘huff-puff’ or a ‘slow-down and recover’ practice. What every you are looking for we can develop together. At the heart of bespoke One-to-One’s is your ‘why’ and where you want to go in health and wellbeing. Book private time with Marie at MINDs in Moerewa or take time out in nature and enjoy your private session in the Ngahere (forest), Te Taha Moana (Oceanside), on your own Whenua (land) or at your Whare (home).
Travel time is added $1.50 per kilometre.
Your Wellness Investment
| 30 Min | $45 |
| 45 Min | $65 |
| 60 Min | $80 |
| 90 Min | $120 |
| 2 hrs | $150 |
Soft TuesDAYS – KOHA $1-$20
10:20 – 11:40am at MINDs Trust Church, Moerewa
A soft all-inclusive yet fluid sequence of mindful movement (strengthening & opening the body in every direction) and breathwork before guided deep rest but a softer all-inclusive session.
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The yoga is accompanied with slow, soft music is informed with some tai chi and vagus nerve stretches and adapted to the changing seasons of Te Taiao.
Dynamic Wednesday afternoons
5:20pm – 6:40pm at MINDs Trust Church, Moerewa
Will suit those who can take a little weight into the knees a wrists for a wee time and move from the floor to standing comfortably.
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A fluid dynamic sequence of mindful movement and breathwork, opening, strengthening, core work, breathing and one-pointed focus techniques before guided deep rest or Yoga Nidra. Accompanied with slow, soft music. Some tai chi and vagus nerve stretches. Adapted to the changing seasons of Te Taiao
Groups & Retreatments
The group programmes with Breathe and Balance with Marie Baker are a wonderful blend of restorative gentle movement, simple breath work and guided deep rest, designed to help your body and mind restore and rebalance. You will have an individual experience within a group environment, and no previous yoga or breathwork experience is necessary. Marie is open to collaborating with iwi and other organisations for workshops, trainings, event experiences, and retreats.
HEALING MOVEMENT Trauma Informed Groups with Marie
The focus here is creating a confidential and safe space for wāhine to heal in body, mind, heart and wairua while also developing mindfulness and self-regulating techniques as they manage symptoms of trauma: sexual, mental, emotional and physical.
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Deb McMillan, Cognitive Behaviour Therapist of CBT Culture accompanies the group to support and reflect each session. Deb has over 25 years’ experience working with wāhine within correctional facilities, group and one-to-one. Ideally wāhine will be working with a Psychologist, Counsellor, Social Worker or Health Improvement Practitioner in the community.
All the principles of Breathe and Balance are applied to the session and good time is set for Guided Deep Rest. Over the 10 weeks of the program we un-flood our system of stress hormones. Things begin to self-repair: sleep improves, fatigue subsides, inflammation and pain reduces, immunity is boosted, the gut starts to heal and digestion improves, mood lifts, brain-fog lifts, energy returns, clarity increases and our creative capacity and readiness to move toward the level of health and vitality we dream of.
Join for a cup of tea and shared kai as you become ready. Allow your readiness to emerge gradually as most of us that join this group are cautious in developing new bonds. But as we do, we find sincere patience and understanding, open appreciation of each other and unconditional positive regard. Being part of a group with similar experience can be deeply therapeutic and support deeper healing and recovery. In scientific terms, it’s called the group effect.
These are closed, confidential groups, and this offering is also available to community initiatives.
Programme duration: 10 – 12 weeks
Your wellness investment:
- ACC covered for those who have Accepted Sensitive Claim.
- $180 for those without a claim. Payment options are available.
HEALING MOVEMENT 3 of 19 September is now closed.
HEALING MOVEMENT 4 will begin 12 December 2024 in Kaikohe again.
HEALING MOVEMENT FOR COUPLES is coming in 2025.
Please contact Marie if you would like to register Healing Movement beginning 12 December or if you would like to co-create this programme as part of your community initiative.
Kaupapa Collaboration
An ideal group session of Breathe and Balance to take place at the beginning and/or the end of an event, whether it’s a community project or initiative, wananga, workshop or wedding!
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Mindful movement, breathing and deep rest assist in relaxing and decompressing the brain, body and heart and turning on creative capacity and readiness before the delivery of a workshop or project. The capacity to tap into the unconscious, to explore, understand, accept and retain new information is lifted as is patience and empathy. The group becomes more available to the content, to themselves and to each other.
Your wellness investment:
60mins $30 per person, minimum of 6
90mins $35 per person, minimum of 6
2hrs $40 per person, minimum of 6
Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marie
A 5-15 minute confidential chat with Marie to be clear of what One-to-One Breathe and Balance is and isn’t, whether Marie is the ‘right-fit’ for you in terms of your needs. Discuss any injuries or conditions, how you want to make a difference in your life, and what you are looking for in Breathe and Balance; Mindful Breath, Movement and Deep Rest with Marie.