Mary Steinberg

Mary has taught iRest since completing Level I training in 2009. Evanston Vet Center: (5+ yrs.) co-teaching with Gemma Adams Center On Halsted: SAGE seniors (3 yrs.) Living Room Meditations: (3+ yrs.) Jesse Brown VAMC: Day Hospital, Open/Drop-in Class, OEF/OIF/OND, Addiction Treatment Program, PRRTP Jacqui Neurauter, Gemma Adams and Mary have created a Veterans Restorative Project in 2012 (501(c)3 with the goal of expanding iRest into community-based and Veteran Affairs venues in the Chicago area. To date VRP offers on-going iRest classes in 3 VA hospitals, 5 Vet Centers, 3 community organizations and multiple retreats and workshops with partner organizations. As a yoga practitioner for 18 years, Mary is an Advanced Certified Yoga Teacher and has taught iRest and hatha yoga in corporate, public institutions and yoga studios. She holds a BA in Geography and a MA in Economics and she is the proud mother of a U.S. Army Soldier. This is what one of Mary’s clients’ says about iRest: “iRest really changed my life. EVERYTHING is better because of it. It let me stop and rest…. Isolate the fact that something was deeply hurting me, not just surface stress. Then I could go and address it. I am so grateful.” S. K.