Get ready for a fresh take on healing, nourishment, and living well with chronic conditions. Ann Marie draws from her personal experience as a chronic boss, her yoga training, and her work in women’s health advocacy to help you uncover what holistic wellness truly means for you. This column explores well-meaning but often unhelpful advice like “Have you tried yoga?” while offering tangible, compassionate ways to reclaim your healing journey as the deeply personal and intuitive experience it’s meant to be. With warmth and levity, Ann Marie shares accessible tools that feel good and honor the realities of balancing health needs with business, family, and life. Whether you’re actively healing, learning to manage your symptoms, or taking preventative steps, this column is for you.
Ann Marie Poch
Beyond the Yoga Mat
Exploring the practice of living well—on and off the mat
Ann Marie is a certified yoga instructor, women’s health advocate, and freelance marketing professional. She first discovered yoga as a way to ease chronic muscle tension and later became certified to better understand how to adapt the practice for her own body. Since then, she has earned additional certifications in prenatal yoga, pelvic floor yoga, and trauma-conscious yoga. Living with endometriosis and related co-conditions inspired Ann Marie to expand her wellness toolkit beyond yoga and develop a truly integrated approach to healing, wellness, and life. Her advocacy is fueled by her experiences with delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and the limited (often misguided) treatments currently available for her conditions. Through her column, she brings all of this together to support readers in cultivating awareness, self-trust, and holistic well-being on their own terms.
