Marla integrates years of experience and a multi-disciplinary approach into every session.
Marla Hanken, NTP CMT BCSI is an experienced health and wellness practitioner based in San Francisco, California, offering online integrative wellness coaching, holistic nutrition consultations, and somatic resilience sessions. Her in-person private practice focuses predominantly on structural bodywork, movement integration, and somatic resilience. In addition to her background with bodywork and movement, Marla is also extensively trained and certified as a Health & Wellness Coach, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, and NLP Master Practitioner.
Marla has over 6000 total hours of training and over fifteen years in practice actively combining a variety of interrelated wellness-oriented disciplines and healing modalities. Given the depth and breadth of her knowledge and experience, she is uniquely positioned to offer somatically-aware, trauma-informed, truly integrative online coaching. Sessions support clients in developing and refining their innate resources and nutritional choices to cultivate resilience, balance, and overall wellness during times of stress and change using an integrative, multimodal approach.
Training & Education Highlights:
Nutrition & Health Coaching
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)
Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
Restorative Wellness Practitioner (RWP)
Autoimmune Paleo/AIP Certified Coach
Additional training in Resilience Coaching, working with food- and weight-related behaviors, microbiome and gut health, and various trauma-informed techniques
Hypnotherapy & Neurolinguistics
Certified Hypnotherapist (CHT)
NLP Master Practitioner (Marin-style NLP)
Advanced training in medical hypnotherapy for IBS, autoimmune issues, and chronic disease (with Eva Clark)
Advanced hypnotherapy and Gestalt Dreamwork training (with Randal Churchill)
Somatic Therapy & Trauma Work
Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists (with Kathy Kain)
Somatic Resilience & Regulation (with Kathy Kain & Steve Terrell)
NeuroAffective Touch Training (ongoing/ in-progress), including working somatically online (with Aline LaPierre)
Intergenerational Trauma, Long COVID-19, Chronic Pain, Syndromes (Peter Levine)
Yoga, Pilates, & Movement
Stott Pilates all apparatus/all levels
Classical Pilates apprenticeship (basic through intermediate levels, with Martt Lawrence)
YogaFit 200-hour yoga teacher training
Yoga for Trauma (with Lisa Danylchuk)
Reusi Dat Ton (Thai Hermit Yoga) studies with Reusi Tevijjo Yogi
Franklin Method private studies (with ZoyaMarie Jilbere)
Thai Bodywork & Sen Healing
Sen Healing & Thai Structural Bodywork private apprenticeship with Ajarn Itthidet Manarat (Master Poo Ong Dam)
Private & small group study of Buddhist Medicine and therapeutic bodywork with Reusi Tevijjo Yogi (2008-2012)
Continuing education and additional training with Nephyr Jacobsen, the Naga Center, Shivagakomarpaj Old Medicine Hospital, Noam Tyroler, Somananda Yogi
Western & Osteopathic Bodywork
IASI Board Certified Structural Integrator
Certified Anatomy Trains Structural Integration Practitioner (Tom Myers)
Certified Advanced Neuromuscular Therapist (with Cynthia Ribeiro)
Neurovascular Release (Kier Schumaker)
Barral Visceral Manipulation
Upledger Craniosacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, and Craniosacral for Chronic Depletion/Immune Response
CAMTC CMT #9820
“I feel utterly blessed to be working with you, Marla!”
— K.K., San Rafael, CA