welcome.
I'm Mary Beth — most people call me MB. I'm a somatic practitioner, yoga teacher, writer, and founder of Embodied by MB.
For years, I believed the answers were somewhere outside of me. I searched for the next certification, achievement, or breakthrough that would finally help me feel at peace. I've spent more than twenty years teaching yoga around the world, studying healing, coaching, and personal growth. Every experience shaped me.
But the greatest transformation didn't come from doing more.
It came from slowing down enough to listen.
My body became one of my greatest teachers. It showed me that healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about returning to who we've always been, beneath the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the striving, the survival. Learning to trust my body changed everything.
Today, that understanding is the heartbeat of my work.
I found my way to a yoga mat when I was twenty. Not for exercise. Not for flexibility. I was looking for a way to experience myself through my body instead of my brain. A place to just be, without thinking my way through it.
What I found there stayed with me and really changed my whole life.
For years, I lived with depression and anxiety. I knew how to think my way around it, explain it, manage it from the neck up, override it and seek regulation through other means. What I didn't know was how to feel my way through it.
Somatic work changed that.
It didn't hand me answers. It gave me a way back. A way back to my body, to my breath, to the parts of myself I'd been narrating instead of inhabiting. Slowly, that practice became less about performance and more about presence. Less about fixing myself and more about meeting myself.
That's the work I do now. Not because I have it all figured out but because I know what it means to come home to yourself, one breath at a time.
how i got here
what i believe
I don't believe women need another thing to fix themselves.
I believe they need a place to finally exhale.
Through somatic practices, nervous system education, yoga, retreats, and one-on-one support, I help women reconnect with themselves. Not by becoming someone different, but by remembering who they already are.
Because that's when everything changes.
We build relationships that don't cost us ourselves.
We move through life with more ease.
We stop performing.
We start living.
I've had the privilege of teaching thousands of students around the world. I've studied yoga with brilliant teachers like Schuyler Grant, Kia Miller, Ally Hamilton, and Chad Dennis, and studied somatic work with Britt Piper, Scott Lyons, Debra Clydesdale, and Jan Winhall.
I've taught at Wanderlust Festivals, Kripalu, and 1440 Multiversity, appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal, created mentorship programs for yoga teachers, and worked with everyone from professional athletes to rehabilitation centers, homeless shelters, and the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles.
I've partnered with organizations including Amazon, Nike, Adidas, Lexus, Merrill Lynch, and Vital Proteins, and contributed to Yoga Journal and other publications.
But what shaped me most has been my own lived experience as a teacher, mother and human, the remarkable people I've worked with and the quiet wisdom of the body itself.
my experience
BRANDS I’VE WORKED WITH
When I'm not teaching, you'll usually find me with a library book in one hand and something warm in the other. I recharge in the Colorado mountains where I live, on long walks with my bulldogs or tucked into a cozy coffee shop with my journal, half-writing, half-daydreaming.
I love old-school hip hop turned up loud, fresh flowers on the counter, slow Sunday mornings, conversations that go somewhere real, and the small rituals that make an ordinary day feel a little sacred — the first sip of coffee, the slow yoga practice before anyone else is awake, the candle lit before I sit down to write.
Connection, curiosity, embodiment, and soulfulness aren't just values I teach. They're the way I try to live, imperfectly, one ordinary day at a time.
Whether you found your way here through yoga, somatic work, recovery or simple curiosity, I hope this space feels like a place to rest.
A place where you remember you don't have to become someone else to heal.
You simply have to come home to yourself.
I'd be honored to walk alongside you.
and outside of my work
xo mb
