Healthy Spirals Yoga Ayurveda Meditation

Maryann Beckman-Berman is the founder of Healthy Spirals Yoga Ayurveda Meditation in Des Plaines, Illinois. She is a National Ayurvedic Medical Association board certified Health Counselor and Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher. Born and raised in Chicago to a father also born and raised in Chicago, and a mother from Kerala, India along with her five siblings, the words yoga and ayurveda were not in her vocabulary until her late 20’s. She received a BS in Marketing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and worked in the field moving up the corporate ladder for 15 years. While Director of Programs and Events for the American Concrete Pavement Association, she completed her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training at Total Body Yoga in Mundelein with Silvia Mordini and Wendy Dahl. Maryann left the corporate world after multiple miscarriages and immersed herself in the world of yoga and began teaching as an independent contractor. She found Ayurveda and completed Year 1 and 2 trainings with Patricia Layton, Panchakarma technician training with Corinna Schmidt and Pranic Healing training with Jerry Becker at Kanyakumari in Milwaukee. Maryann taught yoga at the College of Lake County in Grayslake from 2010–2020. In 2015 she attended a 500-hour advanced yoga therapy training program at Universal Spirit Yoga in Naperville with Poonam Gupta and mentored her 2016 200-hour and 2017 500-hour teacher training programs. In 2019 she earned a MEd in Health and Wellness Education.