Embody Being
Embody Being is rooted in the belief that healing is not about fixing.
Healing is about remembering who we truly are.
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About Mary
About Mary
Mary Stokes, MS, is the founder of Embody Being, a private practice dedicated to guiding individuals, couples, and families toward lasting transformation through engaging the body. She teaches how to use the body as the guide for living an authentic life with clarity and presence. With a background in clinical nutrition and exercise physiology and teaching experience at Duke University Medical Center, Mary brings scientific rigor to deeply intuitive, somatic work. Her approach recognizes that true change doesn’t happen through knowledge and insight alone — it requires engaging the body as a gateway to healing and understanding.
Mary specializes in helping clients uncover and unwind long-held emotional, mental, physical and energetic patterns that limit authenticity. Her work supports the release of early developmental imprints and defenses, allowing people to reconnect with their inherent vitality and integrity. By bringing awareness to our bodily sensations and direct experience, one develops the capacity to meet life, no matter what comes, with genuineness, clarity, courage, and a joyful contentment.
Through one-on-one sessions, couples work, intensives, and workshops, she offers a grounded yet expansive space for transformation. Embody Being is rooted in the belief that healing is not about fixing, but about remembering who we truly are.
Mary’s practice is informed by four primary fields of study which she has studied and taught since 1993
🍃 Perception and movement research -
A field of research that explores how our perception and past experiences literally and figuratively shape how the body organizes itself relative to gravity and the people in our lives. There are simple yet powerful techniques for realigning our posture and subsequently our attitudes. You learn to move and live in the world with confidence and ease.
🍃 Somatic-based meditation -
These simple, yet profound practices bring awareness deep into the body. The practices strengthen one's innate awareness, presence, integrity, and intuition by calming the nervous system and taming the mind and ego. The practices combine the realities of our modern world and the understanding of the nervous system with the ancient traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism and Thai Forest meditation practices.
🍃 Early childhood development -
Through the lens of Bioenergetics and Core Energetics, the impacts of early life experiences are discovered. The body unconsciously holds the emotions, beliefs, and ways of coping that no longer serve, as well as, the resilience and strength that we now need to live authentically.
🍃 The Pathwork®-
A body of teachings dedicated to personal transformation through fostering self-honesty, personal responsibility, and profound inner change.
Please reach out if you want to learn more.
Phone: 919-601-7121
Email: marystokes@gmail.com
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