Hi, I’m Mariana (they/them)
I am a queer Mexican-Californian based in Berlin, Germany. I am a certified Transformational Life Coach, Shamanic Practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher and Somatic Practitioner.
Originally from Sausalito, California, I have always been a coach, healer, and guide in one form or another. I spent over seven years as a sailing coach, helping kids discover confidence, intuition, and skill on the water. Later, I followed a more traditional path, earning a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley and moving to Berlin in 2014, where I worked in startups and NGOs.
After years of pushing through burnout and unprocessed trauma, I experienced a major mental health rupture that forced everything to stop. It was the moment I had to finally turn toward the pain I had been carrying. That turning point became the beginning of my healing path. Through psychotherapy, meditation, coaching, shamanism, Reiki, and other ancestral and somatic practices, I slowly found my way back to myself and began creating a life rooted in presence, purpose, and integrity.
In that process of remembering who I am, I felt the call to step into my work as a Transformational Life Coach, Curandera, and Shamanic Reiki practitioner. My path is grounded in both my ancestral lineage and my lived experience of transformation.
Today, I support clients through a blend of trauma informed coaching, shamanic healing, somatic awareness, and Reiki. My approach is relational, intuitive, and grounded in deep listening. Alongside these modalities, I am also training in the Pantarei Approach, which continues to refine how I work with embodiment, sensation, and emotional expression.
At the heart of everything I do is a simple purpose. I am here to help people come home to themselves. My intention is to guide you toward clarity, confidence, and connection so you can meet your life, your relationships, and your own inner world with more presence, compassion, authenticity and freedom.
About Mariana Luna
My mission is to guide and support you on your inner journey by blending contemporary and ancestral healing wisdom, so you can live with greater connection, clarity, presence and inner alignment.
I believe that personal healing creates powerful ripples. When we heal ourselves, we also contribute to the healing of the world around us.
Why I became a Curandera, Reiki Master, Somatic Practitioner and Transformational Coach
For me, it’s simple. I feel deeply called to this path.
I am here to support people who are ready to do their inner work, to heal, to grow and to reconnect with themselves in a deeper way.
I love holding space for people as they meet their emotions, uncover what has been held or hidden, and come back into clarity and truth. My work has expanded over the years from Transformational Life Coaching to curanderismo and Reiki into somatic practice through the Pantarei Approach, which continues to shape how I listen, touch, guide and support others.
It brings me real joy to witness people remember who they are, feel more at home in their bodies, and step into more freedom, connection and alignment in their lives.
Background, Qualifications and Lineages
2014 — BA in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
I earned my Degree of Bachelor of Arts with a major in Political Science from UC Berkeley, which laid the groundwork for my lifelong curiosity about people, systems, and transformation.
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2018-2020 — Becoming a Transformational Life Coach
I trained with Animas Centre for Coaching, the world’s leading school of Transformational Life Coaching (International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited) based in London. This was the beginning of my formal path into guiding and supporting others.
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2019-2020 — Deepening Into Presence, Meditation & Mindfulness
I completed a Mindfulness and Meditation Coaching certification with Animas Centre for Coaching.
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I also completed The Power of Awareness meditation training program through The Awareness Training Institute in association with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley with my teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.
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2020-2021 — Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage
I trained in Berlin with Reiki Master Romana Cottee for Usui Reiki Ryoho Levels 1-4, and became certified to teach all four levels of Reiki in this lineage and tradition.
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2021-2022 — Shamanic Studies & Apprenticeship
I completed a shamanic studies program and apprenticeship at La Universidad de la Conciencia in Mexico City, Mexico under my teacher, Tarwe Hrossdottir, rooted in the Earth Shamanism lineage of Mexican curanderismo. My ongoing supervision with Tarwe remains a central part of my learning, practice and lineage.
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2018-Present — Trauma-Informed, Relational & Embodiment Studies
Hundreds of hours of training in trauma-informed work, nonviolent communication, conscious kink, and polyamory-centered relational facilitation. I’ve also completed a 10-day Vipassana retreat, shorter Buddhist retreats at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, California, and foundational courses in holistic massage. This is ongoing work, I regularly attend courses, workshops, and trainings to deepen my skills and stay sharp in my practice.
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2025-2026 — Pantarei Approach (In Training)
I am currently immersed in a 1.5 year Pantarei Approach somatic bodywork training, a healing modality rooted in touch, presence, verbal communication, connection, and the innate wisdom of the body. This deepens my work and informs every session I offer.
Estimated graduation: June 2026.
