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Sashay over Karen Kain! There’s a new gal in town who might just jeté herself into a pas de deux with you, if she so chooses to. Dancing had always been one of her passions and, at the age of 17, her dreams of becoming a prima ballerina were swept into an up-do, when she ran her own hair salon for eight years before coming to Canada.
Marlene George is her name and helping people to reach their personal and professional goals is her game. She’s come a long way, baby.
On a journey never ending, nor tiresome, Marlene’s life spans continents. Originally from South Africa, she came to Canada 39 years ago with her husband, her son, and $500 in their pockets. She left her birthplace to come to Canada and now considers Canada home.
“From a hot country to a cold one, I just like to run away when the snow comes. You know, when the Canadians go to Florida, the Africans go there for the winter!” she jokes.
Today she is an accomplished author of a book on living a life of joy in a stressful modern world - “Your Life is Now!” Written in response to her clients’ and students’ requests for a book to summarize her teachings, it delves into Nine Skills for Joyous Living and includes easy-to-follow exercises and inspirational visualizations.
“I felt I had something to offer people with their health and emotional challenges,” Marlene says.
It’s no small wonder that she is a Wellness and Business coach who assists clients to live joyously and successfully. Marlene is trained in the healing techniques of Therapeutic Touch , Reiki and CranioSacral Therapy.
She gives workshops and private consultations that include other transformational forms of therapy such as positive goal setting. Additionally she is a Teleclass leader, motivational speaker, healer and producer of four Visualization CDs.
She has inspired many radio and television interviews, including DayTime aired on Rogers Television. She has been an inspirational speaker to group and corporate seminars, and has given private workshops to: Health and Wellness Shows, The Learning Annex, The Brampton Board of Trade and several colleges, like Seneca College, George Brown College and Centennial College to name a few.
Marlene has worked in Ontario, Mexico, the United States and South Africa, where she recounts a breakthrough at one of her workshops there.
“When I did some workshops in South Africa, it was so heart-wrenching to hear the different cultures that came to the workshop. Before coming to the workshop, how much they hated each other. During the apartheid era there’s always the one culture blaming the other one. After this whole system collapsed, in the workshop there were different shades and colors of people.
They wanted the other parties to understand why they acted the way they acted. They wanted to move past the hurt and pain to a place of forgiveness for themselves and from those in the workshop. There was such a need to help them to understand,” says Marlene. “In many ways I did facilitate, but a lot of them came with the desire to understand one another.”
In fact, she comes with a mile-high pile of endorsements from clients, like Janice Robertson who says: “Marlene has changed my life for the better, offering positive solutions to problems that are truly inspirational and uplifting!”
But things weren’t always rose-colored for Marlene. Years ago, after being fired from her job at a Toronto university, she went into a depression.
“When I got fired, I knew that was a message from the Universe,” she says.
“My self-esteem plummeted. It took me two years to feel good about myself again. That’s what got me where I got to today.”
“What I teach people today is what has helped me along my journey! I’ve had a lot of great teachers. The main proponent of their message was the power of human potential to create what we want and that’s kind of what I teach my people today - create what we want through the Law of Attraction. I teach people to empower themselves.”
by Irene Darra |
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