We are a mother-daughter team, dedicated to creating an intentional space for restoration and health. Our meditations and classes are designed to assist you in becoming more fully centered, vibrant and aligned with your true center.
Maren Good
Scent & Sound Therapy
Maren is the owner of Scent and Sound Works ® , Llc, a company specializing in aromatherapy products; is a Certified Practitioner in Acutonics ® Sound Healing; a Senior Faculty member with the Acutonics ® Institute of Integrative Medicine; was a Licensed Massage Therapist for 20 years and is a Nationally Certified Reflexologist; NAHA-approved Certified Aromatherapist; and a certified Aroma Acupoint Practitioner. Maren teaches aromatherapy and Acutonics in Frederick, MD. She completed Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes 5-year program with the Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies Institute and is an approved facilitator for Dr. Estes’ work with the Wild Woman Archetype, specifically utilizing the book “Women Who Run With The Wolves.” Maren has been working in the holistic arts for over 30 years, beginning with a form of energy work called Attunement. Maren incorporates her Masters in Archetypal Cosmology in utlizing tuning forks, gongs, singing bowls, essential oils and other sound tools in her sessions to create new dimensions in wellness. In addition to individual therapeutic sessions, she offers public gong meditations, along with her partner Michael Ungar, in Frederick, MD, bringing the power of the gongs to the community.
Mari Good
Yoga & Pilates
Mari’s yoga journey began at the age of six, by learning to do handstands against a wall in a small donation-based yoga studio in downtown Portland, Oregon. She continues to invert herself and sometimes even her students in carefully crafted yoga practice. Coming from a dance background, she thoroughly enjoys choreographing classes that flow, allowing students the freedom to express themselves on their mats and honor their bodies. We use poses to get in touch with our bodies, and tap into the internal innate teacher we each have inside of us.
Mari's first 200-hour Vinyasa yoga teacher training was in New York City in 2011. In 2013, she completed a second 200-hour advanced Hatha teacher training in Chennai, India. Upon her return from India, she began her Pilates mat and reformer certification in 2014. In 2016 she graduated from Maryland University of Integrative Health with a Masters of Science in Yoga Therapy and a 500-hour yoga teacher training, and is a Certified Yoga Therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists(C-IAYT). Her next training was for the CoreAlign and then MoTR in 2019. She completed her comprehensive Pilates certification in 2021.
Our Teachers
Kelly Berkley
Breathwork Journey
Kelly Berkley, the founder of BreathTide, is a passionate breathwork facilitator who discovered the transformative power of breath in her personal healing journey. Her initial interest in breathwork was sparked by her struggle with asthma, which left her unable to take full inhalations. This limitation caused her persistent, low-level anxiety, impacting her daily life and meditation practice.
Driven by her desire to find relief from her asthma symptoms, Kelly immersed herself in learning about various breathwork methodologies. She sought guidance from asthma experts specializing in techniques such as Buteyko and Coordinated Breathing. Through these interactions, she gained valuable insights and tools that helped improve her asthma condition.
Eventually her curiosity led her to conscious connected circular breathing. She soon discovered that her asthma challenges were actually emotional tension from childhood stored in her chest and diaphragm. Through this type of breathwork, which is also a somatic exercise, she was able to release the decades-old tension from her body and breathe freely. She had discovered that breathwork offered much more than just relief from her asthma. It held the potential to heal on both physiological and psychological levels.
Since 2016, she has spent time practicing and studying breathwork in Bali, Costa Rica, and the US. Eventually she decided to formalize her study and received her Body of Breath breathwork facilitator certification (conscious connected breathing) in-person in Nosara, Costa Rica in January 2022. She received her 2.5 year, 400 hour breathwork certification in 2024 through The Body of Breath. She also received her pranayama certification in 2019 at Beloved Yoga in Reston, VA. She received her yoga teacher training certification through an immersive training program in Uvita, Costa Rica at Bienestar Yoga in 2021.
Cia Parker
Yoga
Cia Parker, Psy.D. is a Maryland licensed psychologist and Former Associate Member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Dr. Parker obtained an undergraduate degree from Salisbury University during which completed an internship at the United States Marshals Service. She completed the Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Dr. Parker pursed her doctorate degree at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University (2009). Dr. Parker was affiliated with Atlantic OccuPsych beginning in 2009 and completed preemployment evaluations of public safety candidates (Correctional, Emergency Communications and Fire/Rescue) for Frederick County, and Washington County, MD, along with other federal law enforcement agencies. She also worked with Baltimore County Police on their Mobile Crisis Team for five years. More recently, Dr. Parker became a registered yoga instructor, teaching yoga at a local studio and CrossFit gym. She also provides other nutritional, yoga and psychological services through her corporation, Parker Psychological Services d.b.a The Cole House.
Angela Gonzales
Afro Fusion Movement and Meditation
Afro Fusion is a body movement therapy using Afro dance techniques and meditation to help increase strength, improve flexibility, decrease muscle tension and bring about feelings of rejuvenation. This is an all-level class. No dance experience is necessary.
Erica Chesnik
Prenatal Yoga
Erica Chesnik is a highly experienced certified prenatal yoga teacher in Frederick. Her prenatal class focuses on strengthening the mind, body, and breath while connecting deeply with baby. We also focus on reducing anxiety about the common worries that an expectant mother will encounter by discussing and demystifying them. Learn about how to connect to and engage the pelvic floor in a way that will actually help you when you need it most. What makes your experience with Erica different from the rest is her charisma and levity. A not-too-serious approach to a seriously exciting time in your life, Erica is the prenatal teacher that comes most highly recommended in the Frederick County area!
Carrie Jones
Shamanic Journeys
Carrie Jones is a formally trained shamanic practitioner. Her practice is influenced by Celtic, Norse and Core shamanic training and traditions. Her educational background includes undergoing and completing a Three-Year Program of Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.
Additionally, she completed a Two-Year Training in Celtic Shamanism with Jane Burns, with whom she is currently undergoing an Advanced Practitioner Training.
She has studied and trained in the practice of Seidr and Norse Shamanic Traditions with Imelda Almqvist, with whom she has received additional training in working with the Elder Futhark Runes.
Her exploration of shamanism and shamanic traditions has taken her to Calaceite, Spain where she studied and trained with Zelia Pye and was certified as a Shamanic Dance Ritual Guide and Guardian.
Her studies have also taken her to the Scottish Highlands where she participated in a One-Year Nature Intelligence and Earth Centered Spirituality Program with Twobirds Cunningham.
Giselle Georgi
Sound Healing
GG Empowers LLC is a trauma-informed, Buddhist, multi-disciplinary artist, facilitator, and healer. She loves creating unique, insightful experiences that bring creativity and wellness together and explore concepts like the inner critic and inner child. Her art forms of choice are healing dance, mindful painting, and sound healing. Using these mediums, she facilitates mindfulness, helping others strengthen their meditative practice, while also promoting more play and rest for adults. As someone who learned how to thrive while having C-PTSD, she relates to and is deeply supportive of those who embark on a journey of unconditional self love and healthy relating. In everything she does are the core beliefs that everyone is whole and complete, and that the terms ‘enough’ or ‘not enough’ are too limiting to describe all that you are, even if you have forgotten this truth. She is also a firm believer in nonduality - in the concept that all of your experiences are important, valid, and beautiful in the context of your individual path. She is thrilled to hold space for you, your spiritual practice, your joy, and all that you are