Sarah Warhaftig, Founder
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Sarah has spent her career working in youth development, with a focus on wellness and coaching for the United States Olympic Committee, the YMCA, Brown Girl Surf, and five different schools around the country. She was the founding Director of Mindfulness and Wellness at Caliber ChangeMakers Academy in Vallejo, CA, and served as the Senior Program Director at SquashDrive.
In all of her roles, Sarah has been inspired by the impact of physical and mental well-being.
Sarah is passionate about delivering self-care, wellness, mental health and suicide prevention resources and tools to the construction industry because of the disproportionate rate at which construction workers are impacted by mental health crises and death by suicide.
Sarah is a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor and mindfulness coach, she’s completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training, and she’s trained in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills). An avid surfer, Sarah has surfed the California coast, Hawaii, Nicaragua, and Tofino, British Columbia.
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Erin Mariani, Founder
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Erin Mariani has experience working with individuals and groups for more than eight years at One Medical, an innovative primary care practice focused on long-term health.
She is currently the coaching lead at Galileo, a modern medical practice. Erin’s specialty has been on a skills-based approaches to stress and anxiety management. A national board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC) with a master’s degree in counseling (MA, Educational Counseling), Erin is passionate about supporting individuals on their journey to be the healthiest version of themselves.
Erin is trained in MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) from UCSF and is a certified yoga instructor trained by Rusty Wells. She recently completed a training with the Veterans Yoga Project. Erin is also passionate about improv and has studied at The Groundlings, The Second City in Hollywood, and Secret Improv Society and BATS in San Francisco.
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Nikki Pearl, Lead Instructor
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Nikki has worked in the health and wellness space for 30+ years, pioneering integrative health concepts and programs in the workplace. She received her Masters in Integral Health Studies in 2003 from the California Institute of Integral Studiesafter a 10-year career in natural foods marketing. Nikki is a CYTA certified yoga instructor and has taught workplace yoga for 25 years.
Nikki works with the San Francisco Giants to tailor and deliver programs that support employee health and well-being. She is also a lead educator for Wellness Tools for the Trades, where she works to build a culture of health in the construction trades. During the pandemic, Nikki launched the food security non-profit, Dine11 San Francisco and in 2023, co-founded Menopausitive Workshop, a health education program that empowers midlife women with education, resources, tools and community.
An avid dancer and a budding gardener, Nikki is passionate about food, nutrition and animals. She has two young-adult kids and lives in San Francisco with her husband and her dog, Juniper.
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