Marcee has completed a 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Canmore Counselling's Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School and 20 hours of training with the Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment Yoga Program. These have provided her with the skills to integrate a trauma-informed lens into her work. She also has vast experience with working with people with trauma over the years, including her time as a Special Education teacher, in her private practice, and in her work with CCS (Comprehensive Community Services).
Marcee's home and studio are in Rising Sun, Wisconsin on the land of the builders of effigy mounds, the Woodland People, who lived here in southwestern Wisconsin and throughout the upper midwest from about 700BC up until about 1300.
This land was eventually part of the migratory land of the Sauk and Fox people after they were forced off of their land by the colonizers and had to band together. They were led by Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (commonly known as Black Hawk). Fleeing through here for their lives, over 900 of Black Hawk’s people were slaughtered by the US Army and the Sioux. At the end, Black Hawk and only about 300 of his people survived. Local towns, Soldiers Grove (formerly Pine Grove), Retreat and Victory are sadly named after this tragic event. She carries their story and memory in her heart.
She is a part of the Himalayan Tradition of Yoga Meditation, blessed to have been initiated by Deborah Adele, who in turn was taught by and initiated into our tradition by Yogi Raj Achala (Charles Bates).