Janine Grillo Marra
Meditation Teacher, Chair of NDF Movement Committee. Janine is the owner of Tranquil Flame Yoga and Wellness in Revere, MA. As a licensed physical therapist (McGill University, 1983), Reiki practitioner, certified Shake Your Soul dance teacher and certified fitness trainer, she augments her yoga classes with aspects of therapy, healing, and fitness for an integrated experience. She began her own yoga practice in 1992 and then participated in a yoga teacher training program led by Sarah Powers, a yoga and meditation teacher, in California (2000). Janine regularly enhances her practice with workshops, extended retreats and inner work. She teaches both yin and yang styles of yoga, various movement classes and meditation. Since the early 2000’s, Janine’s path has been deeply influenced by other teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist lineage – Lama Willa Miller, Lama John Makransky, Brendan Kennedy, Anam Thubten, Pema Chodron, Lama Surya Das, and Charles Genoud – as well as Buddhist psychologists Tara Brach, Jennifer and John Welwood, and Jack Kornfield. She is committed to the path of healing and transformation in her own life and helps others through her classes, workshops, retreats, Reiki and private sessions. Janine also volunteers teaching meditation classes at the Suffolk County House of Corrections.