Marianne Pilgrim is originally from Vancouver, Canada and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at a young age. Trained as an Occupational Therapist at Dominican University in San Rafael, California, Marianne has been working with the US military community for over 13 years. Marianne and her husband, Aaron, have been living in Germany for almost 10 years and this is where she developed her personal meditation practice.
After learning about how medical research supports Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for improving attention, memory and making literal changes in many parts of the brain, Marianne decided to become a certified MBSR Instructor. Marianne’s first exposure to MBSR was through a self-paced course from the original founders of MBSR at University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Marianne is a teacher in training with Mindful Academy Solterreno, Spain and Mindfulness Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Marianne is thrilled to teach others how MBSR can wake them up to their own lives.