Testimonials

I want to thank you so much for your extremely powerful workshop. The content was amazing and very well organized! Practical, simple and highly effective!

This workshop could be very helpful for domestic abuse victims and survivors. I've attended many workshops, courses and therapy associated with this subject but none match empowering advise and practical techniques. Thank you again!

I hope you will facilitate more in the future.
Also I loved your win win win charity donation idea.

Where does one begin when sharing thoughts about someone as singularly amazing as Mariko? I cannot imagine a life without Mariko as a friend, coach, and mentor. Our encounters are grounded in curiosity, respect, and deeply rooted in trust. Before Mariko, I was rowing fast but fearfully with no compass, feeling fatigued and lost. Now I better know where I’m going and living with more clarity, energy, and conviction.

Through Mariko’s loving, transformative guidance, I am learning to… …navigate frustrating family relationships by seeing my feelings as a product of my own thoughts—that I am the one creating the distress within myself. …say NO, and gaining tools to help me find greater peace in everything I do—learning that strength sometimes means being boss and sometimes means being vulnerable. …understand the universe in entirely new ways, and finding beauty in the natural world that I didn’t recognize before Mariko. …see knowledge as not just a tool for advancement, but as a path to appreciating life more profoundly. …experience the connections between mind, body, and soul as coordination and not just control in my movement practice. …accept that we can’t control life, but only live within the reality of what we encounter. …reframe the understanding of my sexuality, gender, and orientation, and experience a love affair with myself. …supercharge my sense of adventure and curiosity, and discover how to be more intimate with myself and others, and experience love in new, creative ways—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Part of this learning comes from powerful, blissful private sessions filled with real talk, challenging inquiry, and powerful intervention. It is also the result of participating in Mariko’s “Talk About Sex Like We Talk About Food” community. Few times in my life have I felt so welcome and free. I look forward to continuing to be a part of that growing group of individuals. I believe in Mariko. I trust Mariko. There is NO ONE I hold in higher esteem. Mariko is a gift to me and everyone in my life. Mariko IS joy, light, wisdom, integrity, strength, and love, and she has infused my body, mind, heart, and soul with all of that and so much more so that I can, in turn, pour it out into the world. I see, hear, taste, touch, and smell everything with more richness, truth, and love because of Mariko. Is there any investment more valuable?

The one session that you gave to us yesterday was so amazing! Work itself that you let us through really helped with some deep blocks that we did not know how to overcome. This is a miracle thing that you do. Also, you yourself as a person are a fantastic leader in pioneering couples to new and better places. I really appreciate your strength, your resilience, your clarity, and your gentleness. You are a magician!

Mistress Mariko is a phenomenal life coach and has been instrumental in helping me change my relationship with not only money, but with my own body and mind. I have talked to so many professionals about some of my very specific issues and in response I have gotten everything from blank stares to sheer looks of abject horror. As someone who was once the sort of patient that caused therapists to need therapy, I really appreciate how incredibly sympathetic Mistress Mariko is. She really takes the time to LISTEN to where I'm coming from without jumping to conclusions about what I'm trying to say. She has a gift of turning some of my most terrifying inner monologues into sources of boundless humor and creative inspiration. Thank You, Mistress Mariko, I will save a place for you in the new world order!!

Prior to Mariko’s coaching I had a relationship that I was trying to keep alive, but causing me emotional pain and continual frustration. After receiving Mariko’s coaching, I became aware of three things.

First, I began to see that I allowed this relationship to compromise my boundaries and expectations. I never communicated these things, but expected that my partner would innately want to understand them. But after continually seeing this not happen due to a series of similar events, Mariko had me to see that it was my responsibility to verbalize my expectations and communicate when boundaries are crossed.

Second, Mariko’s coaching emphasized the importance of writing your boundaries and expectations down. I had always had ideas of what I wanted in a relationship, but it was not until I wrote these things down did I begin to see that the relationship I was in did not align with my true desires and values.

Finally, after becoming aware of how my relationship was not in alignment, not only was I able to bring closure to it, but I was able to identify exactly the type of relationships I am looking for. Mariko asked questions that really got to the core of the things that I want and now I am taking steps towards the right direction.

Overall, I was really pleased with Mariko’s approach to my sensitive situation. She never imposed her views, but always asked if she could give perspective on how I can view myself, that individual, and the situation itself neutrally. I highly recommend Mariko’s dating coaching program to anyone who may be experiencing communication problems with one’s partner.

Mariko was truly a joy to work with, and a remarkable coach to meet. Having never before sought to work with a coach, Mariko's calm, direct, and encouraging approach was a perfect fit for me.
With her innate ability to distill all she heard from me, and offer incredibly perceptive insights while keeping our sessions gentle and fun, I feel we made remarkable progress in our sessions together. The improved sense of clarity and confidence I experienced so rapidly after working through our sessions and the exercises devised by Mariko was both exciting and empowering; a remarkable feeling to achieve in such a brief period of time.
I will not hesitate to keep in touch with Mariko as I feel her input, skills, and the coaching space she creates will be endlessly valuable in my ongoing journey as a freelance consultant and working mother.

Dearest Mariko,
I want to write you this E-Mail out of gratitude for our sessions and the talks we had on the topic of sexuality and business. I am deeply grateful for the time, commitment and love you dedicated to my growth, development and empowerment.
I felt so seen, heard and acknowledged by you. Since I studied Sustainable Business I have often felt like a weird person in conventional business contexts. There are parts of me that reject the usual way of doing business, a way of business that burns people out, destroys nature and lets no room for intuition, flow or unconventionalities. You helped me understand those parts and to welcome them with a lot of humor and love. There is as well this deep desire in me to make business differently, especially when it comes to building my own juicy business. Your coaching is full of curiosity, acknowledgement, love and powerful advice. It felt so good to be heard by you and your reflections were medicine for my empowerment. You are a badass business woman and as such your advice was priceless to me. After our sessions I felt encouraged to stay true to my unique way of doing business, to who I am and I started to feel like a Goddess instead of a Weirdo. You made me believe in my unique gift for the world: A way of doing business that is in alignment with nature, my own personal truth and power and the collective Feminine. I’m feeling confident now to rise my prices.
I see my own worth and the worth of my work and I believe in the change I can do in the world. The way you interconnect the power of sex with building a successful business is magical. I loved the depth of your sessions, the joy and laughter and the tears we cried together.
Thank you Mariko for your beautiful coaching!

I met Mariko via social media when I was going through the most difficult personal time in my life feeling disempowered and lost in my relationship. She did an awesome job coaching me through my relationship issues and showed me how to reveal my own self worth when I needed it most. She had the knowledge and ideas I needed to grow, learn and make changes that were due to be made by me at this time of my life. Right out of the gate our conversations showed she cares and wants to share her knowledge. After some time zeroing in on what I needed we came up with a great plan together. We focused on self love and self worth. It just worked, the assignments and suggestions made by her made everything fall into place and perspective. Mariko showed me the way to empower myself and make achievable goals in a way that I could relate to. Many changes are still ahead in my life but I now know i have the tools and power to make the changes I need to make to be happy. I am so grateful to know Mariko and I know she will be there for me.