Today we’d like to introduce you to Nichole Gregory-Marfo.
Hi Nichole, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I started my journey into this work as a yoga student. After drifting in & out of my practice over the years I realized how unhappy and unfulfilled I felt in my job/career. I knew there had to be something else to this thing we call life. I knew I had a deep desire to connect with people and felt I had something to contribute to people’s process of healing and finding purpose in their lives.
I became certified as a Yoga Teacher and soon realized that although people were practicing yoga they weren’t connecting with the whole energetic experience the practice could offer. Not to mention hearing people say “I have to get in shape before I start a yoga practice” or “I need to be more flexible before I do yoga.”
I started by encouraging ALL people to just come to a yoga class, regardless of what you think you know or can’t do, because yoga is more than just the asanas (postures & poses).
In my classes, I began speaking to students without the “instructor” verbiage and more from a place of curiosity of what our bodies energy can do and how we can connect and learn to listen to our body and energy. While students were in Savasana at the end of class I offered adjustments, where occasionally I would feel a connection to a person’s energy and I began to work on their energy for their benefit, and people started to notice.
Over time students started pulling me aside to ask advice or ask for suggestions in other areas of their lives, at the time I didn’t realize what I was doing was energy healing. Eventually, I was approached and offered an opportunity to learn and become certified in Reiki healing. I dove in completely and knew this was the beginning of something magical. From there, I began learning and growing my skills to guide clients and students to the deepest parts of themselves and I couldn’t get enough!
I expanded my knowledge and became a certified Breath Work facilitator, this was a game changer and an invaluable tool to my practice to process trauma and create significant changes with addiction, anger, sexual abuse and the many other personal struggles we face in our society today.
One thing has led to another and now I’ve created what I didn’t even know was possible in a career for myself. Although I don’t have it all figured out, I’m still growing and learning myself. I think that’s what makes how I work differ from others. I’m very open about my struggles with depression and trauma. I’m woo woo but very matter of fact, I’m a Healer but I’m not perfect, I’m a little hippy dippy but still very logically and simple and speak about Spirit or energies in a way that people can understand and identify with, it’s what has allowed me to connect on such deep and vulnerable level with clients. I’m not teaching or guiding from a book or lesson plan, I’ve actually done the work and I’m doing it everyday.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Obstacles and challenges are many, and honestly, life wouldn’t be much without them. I’ve learned to stop trying to avoid the obstacles in life, because the truth of the matter is no matter how successful or planned out you are they keep coming. Although that’s what people try and get us to buy into, this idea that we want to avoid or eliminate the obstacles and challenges in our lives. But! what if we didn’t? What if instead we embraced these moments and learned through these obstacles we can and do create strength and resilience.
Think about the personal trainer or bodybuilder, would they tell you to go into the gym and just lift the weights you could easily lift, just run at the length or speed you feel comfortable. No, because the client would not see results.
Trust me there have been a lot of reasons or excuses that made me want to throw in the towel, and honestly, I’ve tried a few times always being led back. A lot of the obstacles I created with my own limiting beliefs, my own trauma responses. My work has allowed me to see these and learn the ways to make them work for me and not the other way around.
I received a lot of kickback when I decided to do this work as my “real” job. People would ask how are you going to make money, get clients and support your family and although I didn’t really know the answer I noticed when I listened to those people and their fear, I would doubt myself and fall back. I needed to learn how to listen to Spirit/Universe/Higher Power. I mean why was I getting these inspirations, opportunities if what I was doing wasn’t going to work or mean anything in this world? I stopped lisrening to what everyone else was saying or wanting and started to get quieter so I could hear the guidance I was receiving. Not everything has gone according to plan, the pandemic made things really difficult but it’s just a circumstance it’s not etched in stone because life is not meant to be lived in that way.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Yoga Teacher- I teach all variations of Yoga but my love falls into Hatha, Yoga Nidra and Yin in these practices we slow our bodies down and engage with our breath and our bodies in ways we often take for granted or just don’t notice at all.
Reiki Healing- A reading of the bodies energetic field and levels, locating areas in your organs and body (including your thoughts, mind and subconscious) where energy is stagnant or stuck and creating balance.
BreathWork- An intense breathing exercise that releases heavy traumas/events we hold in our physical body, emotional and energetic body. Opens the connection to the deeper part of self to allow for regeneration of your energy and huge releases. Leaving you with clarity, energy and feeling physically lighter.
Intuitive Guidance- A marriage of an energetic reading as well as working directly with the client through a variation of healing and clearing processes to gain clarity and knowledge for forward growth with intention.
What makes you happy?
I am the happiest when doing this work, because it never feels like work because this work is a gift! I’m completely in my element when working, whether it’s teaching a class or working directly with clients.
My family, we are small but very close and I depend on them to help balance and ground myself. When not working I’m spending time with them or by myself. Because I work with people and their energies it’s so important for me to spend time alone. As I get older I notice quiet and solitude bring me a lot of comfort and happiness, It’ how I re-energize myself. This falls right in line with my big dream of moving to the middle of the desert or mountains and creating a retreat space for future workshops and whatever else this crazy Universe has planned for me.
Pricing:
- $95.00 Reiki Session
- $105.00 Breath Work Session
- $135.00 Dual Session (Reiki & Breath Work)
- $285.00 Intuitive Guidance (Broken down into 3 Sessions)
Contact Info:
- Email: ngmyoga@gmail.com
- Instagram: Dizzie_g
- Facebook: Nichole Gregory-Marfo
