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The Four Gates of Vibrant Health

A Health and Wellness Experience

Reconnect with yourself, nourish your body and mind, and make room for a more loving heart and joyful life.

A two-day experience for women ready to give their well-being the time and care it deserves.

Explore practical ways to support your nourishment, rest, movement, and emotional well-being. Through Presence, Intuition, Trust, and Letting Go, you will work with one concern that matters to you and leave with a personal starting plan for everyday life.

Events Details:

📅 Date: January 30–31, 2027.

⏰ Time: 9:00 am–5:00 pm each day

📍 Location: Orange County, California  |  City and venue to be confirmed

An intimate group of no more than 12 women

Early registration:

$595

paid in full by December 30, 2026

Regular registration: $695

Inclusions: 

  • 2 days workshop events
  • workshop materials
  • refreshments,
  • and a light lunch each day.
  • Plus one individual 45-minute online follow-up session with Marie-Annick.

Yes, I’m ready to make time for my well-being.

Register Now
 

Perhaps you have been feeling it

Before your feet touch the floor, you are already thinking about everything that needs you. You know how to show up for your work, your family, and the people you love. Yet your own needs keep waiting for space.

You may be trying to eat well, stay active, and keep everything moving. Still, something feels off. You miss feeling at ease in your body. When you rest, your mind may continue to race. Perhaps you simply miss enjoying your days instead of getting through them.

You may wondering:

  • What do I need now, and where do I begin?
  • How can I care for myself without feeling guilty?
  • What would help me feel more nourished, at ease, and happily connected to my life?

These two days offer space to explore those questions with compassion, practical guidance, and presence. You are welcome exactly as you are.

Four Gates to explore what you need now

The Four Gates are Presence, Intuition, Trust, and Letting Go. Together, they offer a way to connect practical well-being knowledge with your own experience, so you can understand what needs attention and choose where to begin.

You will bring one concern through the Four Gates. It might be stopping sabotaging your diet, avoiding skipping meals, difficulty resting, stress around work, or the feeling that joy has slipped out of your days. You do not need to change everything at once. 

Notice what is happening without rushing to change it. Through guided awareness and reflection, you will explore your habits, feelings, and circumstances. Perhaps you regularly miss lunch when work gets busy or agree to commitments before checking your energy.

What is happening, and how is it affecting me?

Listen more closely to what needs your attention. Reflection and journaling will help you hear yourself beneath familiar expectations and outside noise. You will consider what you notice alongside practical information and any professional guidance you need to make more informed choices and be more aligned.

What needs my attention, and what matters to me?

Choose a caring action you feel ready to take. You will reflect on what you know to be true now, what remains uncertain, and what support could help. Your next step might be protecting time for a meal, asking for help, or making room for something you love.

What do I know to be true, and what step am I ready to take?

Explore what makes caring for yourself harder. You may be ready to loosen guilt about resting, pressure to do everything perfectly, or the belief that your needs must always come last. You may want to stop holding tightly to a situation of the past, but don’t know how. You will explore what releasing some of that weight could look like in an ordinary day.

What am I ready to stop carrying?

 

Perhaps you have been feeling it

Before your feet touch the floor, you are already thinking about everything that needs you. You know how to show up for your work, your family, and the people you love. Yet your own needs keep waiting for space.

You may be trying to eat well, stay active, and keep everything moving. Still, something feels off. You miss feeling at ease in your body. When you rest, your mind may continue to race. Perhaps you simply miss enjoying your days instead of getting through them.

You may wondering:

  • What do I need now, and where do I begin?
  • How can I care for myself without feeling guilty?
  • What would help me feel more nourished, at ease, and happily connected to my life?

These two days offer space to explore those questions with compassion, practical guidance, and presence. You are welcome exactly as you are.

Four Gates to explore what you need now

The Four Gates are Presence, Intuition, Trust, and Letting Go. Together, they offer a way to connect practical well-being knowledge with your own experience, so you can understand what needs attention and choose where to begin.

You will bring one concern through the Four Gates. It might be stopping sabotaging your diet, avoiding skipping meals, difficulty resting, stress around work, or the feeling that joy has slipped out of your days. You do not need to change everything at once. 

Presence

Notice what is happening without rushing to change it. Through guided awareness and reflection, you will explore your habits, feelings, and circumstances. Perhaps you regularly miss lunch when work gets busy or agree to commitments before checking your energy.

What is happening, and how is it affecting me?

Intuition

Listen more closely to what needs your attention. Reflection and journaling will help you hear yourself beneath familiar expectations and outside noise. You will consider what you notice alongside practical information and any professional guidance you need to make more informed choices and be more aligned.

What needs my attention, and what matters to me?

Trust

Choose a caring action you feel ready to take. You will reflect on what you know to be true now, what remains uncertain, and what support could help. Your next step might be protecting time for a meal, asking for help, or making room for something you love.

What do I know to be true, and what step am I ready to take?

Letting Go

Explore what makes caring for yourself harder. You may be ready to loosen guilt about resting, pressure to do everything perfectly, or the belief that your needs must always come last. You may want to stop holding tightly to a situation of the past, but don’t know how. You will explore what releasing some of that weight could look like in an ordinary day.

What am I ready to stop carrying?

Why I created this experience

As a former French and European table tennis champion, chef, author, and entrepreneur, I know dedication and the habit of pushing forward. For more than 27 years, I have coached and mentored thousands. I bring together practical knowledge of nourishment, an understanding of the demands we place on ourselves, and decades of Buddhist practice.

Illness, injuries, and major transitions have asked me to live what I teach: to listen, adapt, receive support, and reconsider what matters. The Four Gates have helped me find clarity and steadiness through those moments, and meet my life with greater ease.

Those experiences have also reminded me that the signals asking for our attention are not always dramatic. They may appear quietly as fatigue, stress, a habit that no longer serves us, or a sense that something meaningful is missing.

I created this experience to bring practical well-being knowledge and inner practices together. My intention is to offer you a place to explore what caring for yourself means in this season of your life, and how to bring that care into the way you live.

Practical learning for your everyday life

 

Nourishing your body and mind

Explore nutritional needs, balanced meals, hydration, and everyday eating habits, including how needs may change with age and health. My background as a healthy chef and wellness coach brings practical ideas and the pleasure of the table into our conversation.

Rest and movement

Consider exercise, sleep, fatigue, and your daily rhythm. Explore what gets in the way of rest and how to make movement part of your life with respect for your energy, abilities, and enjoyment.

Stress and emotional well-being

Recognize your stress patterns and practice a more conscious response. Explore how connection, playfulness, appreciation, and simple pleasures can make room for joy while life is still imperfect.

Meaningful work and a balanced life

Reflect on the relationship between earning a living, work you care about, responsibilities, relationships, and time for yourself. We will explore what feels nourishing and meaningful within the realities of your life.

Your two days together 

 Day One

We begin with the foundations of well-being and the concern you would personally like to explore. Through Presence, Intuition, and Trust, you will connect practical learning with your habits, needs, and choices. There will be guided practices, meditation, personal reflection, conversations, and time to pause.

Day Two

We continue exploring what supports your well-being, with particular attention to Letting Go and integration. You will consider what you want to make room for and develop a personal starting plan you can bring into daily life.

Throughout both days, you may participate at your own pace. Sharing is optional, and no previous experience with meditation or the Four Gates is needed.

What you can take home

  • Practical ideas for nourishment, rest, movement, and responding to stress.
  • A clearer understanding of the concern you have chosen to explore.
  • A personal starting plan with realistic next steps and the support you may need.
  • A way to return to yourself through the Four Gates as circumstances change.
  • Greater awareness of what brings meaning, balance, alignment, and joy into your days.

Imagine an ordinary Monday after the workshop. Your responsibilities are still there, but you notice your needs sooner. Perhaps you take a proper lunch break, choose manageable movement, or protect time for something you enjoy. You have practical ideas to draw on and a way to reflect when things feel difficult.

These two days give you a foundation to build on. Some insights arrive quickly; changing familiar patterns may take months of practice and adjustment. You can begin with one caring choice.

Is this experience for you

This experience may speak to you if:

  • Your health, energy, or needs are changing, and you want to understand what supports you now.
  • Work and responsibilities leave little room for your own well-being.
  • You know some of what would help but find it difficult to put into practice.
  • You want practical guidance alongside time to listen to yourself.
  • You are longing for a more nourishing and joyful way to live.

You are welcome to begin where you are.

Christine Lapidus

Marie-Annick's experience was a turning point in my life. The knowledge, practice, and insights I gained have transformed the way I understand myself, my needs, and my life. I am a completely different person and love who I am becoming.

Chantal Cadieux Schultz

Never in my life have I been able to be in a meditative state, my mind fully quiet, until that moment. In that moment, the whole world narrowed to one lane. There was no past to replay, no future to manage, and no story about what I could or could not do.

Your registration includes

  • Both full workshop days in a group of no more than 12 women.
  • Guided practices, personal reflection, and conversations.
  • Workshop materials.
  • Refreshments and a light lunch each day.
  • One individual 45-minute online follow-up session with Marie-Annick through Zoom.

 Support when you go home

Your individual follow-up session gives us time to reflect on what you have tried, discuss what feels difficult, and adapt your next steps to your life. Booking information will be provided on Day Two. I recommend meeting within two weeks of the workshop; the session must be used within two months.

If you would like continued support afterward, individual mentoring is available separately. You are welcome to discuss it with me if it feels right for you.

Make these two days your beginning

The Four Gates of Vibrant Health
A Health and Wellness Experience

 

January 30–31, 2027  |  9:00 am–5:00 pm each day
Orange County, California  |  City and venue to be confirmed
An intimate group of no more than 12 women
Early registration: $595, paid in full by December 30, 2026
Regular registration: $695

Includes both days, workshop materials, refreshments, and a light lunch each day.

Plus one individual 45-minute online follow-up session with Marie-Annick.

Yes, I’m ready to make time for my well-being.

Register Now

A few questions you may have

Your well-being deserves your attention now

There may always be another challenge, another responsibility, or another deadline asking for your attention.

Your health and well-being deserve that same care.

You do not need to change everything at once. Begin with what needs your attention now. Give yourself space to listen, learn, and discover what will help you feel more nourished, balanced, and connected to the life you want to live.

If these words speak to something you have been feeling, I invite you to make these two days a beginning. I would be honored to welcome you.

With warmth,
Marie-Annick


Stay present. Align deeply.

 

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