Yoga Tolteca is a culturally responsive and trauma-informed moving meditation practice which focuses on regulating the nervous system, aligning the musculoskeletal system, and nurturing self-love and unity in underserved communities. Yoga as a body-centered wellness enhancing approach, will assist individuals in the community experience balance and inspiration through the deepening of self-awareness and transformation.
Yoga Tolteca es una práctica de meditación móvil culturalmente sensible e informada sobre el trauma que se enfoca en regular el sistema nervioso, alinear el sistema musculoesquelético y fomentar el amor propio y la unidad en comunidades desatendidas. El yoga como un enfoque de mejora del bienestar centrado en el cuerpo, ayudará a las personas en la comunidad a experimentar el equilibrio y la inspiración a través de la profundización de la autoconciencia y la transformación.
Yoga Tolteca is a culturally responsive and trauma-informed moving meditation practice which focuses on regulating the nervous system, aligning the musculoskeletal system, and nurturing self-love and unity in underserved communities. Yoga as a body-centered wellness enhancing approach, will assist individuals in the community experience balance and inspiration through the deepening of self-awareness and transformation.

Yoga Tolteca es una práctica de meditación móvil culturalmente sensible e informada sobre el trauma que se enfoca en regular el sistema nervioso, alinear el sistema musculoesquelético y fomentar el amor propio y la unidad en comunidades desatendidas. El yoga como un enfoque de mejora del bienestar centrado en el cuerpo, ayudará a las personas en la comunidad a experimentar el equilibrio y la inspiración a través de la profundización de la autoconciencia y la transformación.
Mariana has been a lifelong student of the healing arts, starting with an impactful visit with a curandera at the age of 5. She has been influenced by traditional Mexica healing systems, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, Tibetan Buddhism, Shinto, and Native American spirituality. She has been teaching Hatha Yoga since 2015, a traditional style of yoga whose philosophy promotes physical, mental and spiritual balance. Mariana earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her interest lies in community healing for the Latino population and oppressed populations, focusing on trauma and cultural healing.
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Mariana ha sido una estudiante de toda la vida de las artes curativas, comenzando con una visita impactante con una curandera a la edad de 5 años. Ha sido influenciada por los sistemas de curación tradicionales mexicas, la medicina tradicional china, el Ayurveda, el budismo tibetano, Shinto y la espiritualidad nativa americana. . Ella ha estado enseñando Hatha Yoga desde 2015, un estilo tradicional de yoga cuya filosofía promueve el equilibrio físico, mental y espiritual. Mariana obtuvo una maestría en psicología de consejería de la Escuela de Psicología Profesional de Chicago. Su interés radica en la curación comunitaria para la población latina y las poblaciones oprimidas, centrándose en el trauma y la curación cultural.
Mariana López, M.A., B.A., CMT., Reiki AP, 200 RYT,
Counseling Psychology, Latino Mental Health Concentration
Founder of Yoga Tolteca
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Medicine Wheel from, " 7 Latinx Psychological Strengths" Workshop for our Youth Presented by Mariana at the Peace and Leadership Summit, Chicago,IL, 2018
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.” 
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed