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Khadeshia Beam is a heart centered being who enjoys laughter, transformative connections and life overall! Her desire to teach yoga and create a health and wellness business like Akoma (Heart) Bloom Wellness is inspired by her humanitarian nature, entrepreneurial spirit, motherhood and her own desire to heal from trauma, unhealthy cycles and self-suffering. Upon discovering that yoga can assist in healing mental, physical and emotional trauma through her own practice, she felt called to share yoga with others. It is imperative to her, that through guiding mindful yoga and meditation classes she brings awareness to the impact our individual well-being has on not only ourselves, those in our world  and the world around us.

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Marcia has a passion for mentoring, empowering, and helping others fight to see their light in the darkness.  Marcia is an advocate of holistic living and is a mouthpiece for promoting wellness and destigmatizing mental health in  under served communities. As a motivational speaker and author she empowers others to find victory in their circumstances.  Marcia is a domestic abuse advocate who provides guidance to those in various parts of their abuse journey. Based on her strong calling and life experiences, she became a pastoral counselor. In this capacity she provides spiritual development, couples counseling, grief navigation as well as guiding people through trauma and transitional issues that occur on the journey of life. She passionately teaches yoga, meditation and self-care to inspire people to find a pathway to heal and reduce stress. She is a certified 500 hour yoga instructor, 50 hour certified meditation guide, as well as a reiki master healer. One of her guiding principles is to allow her life and story to empower others to not just survive but thrive. She is blessed to have two pillars in her life, Myles and Adin, that have taught her the meaning of unconditional love. Marcia received her B.S. in Biology from Spelman College and her M.A. in Pastoral Counseling (Crisis Response & Trauma) from Liberty University.