Hi, I’m Maria!
My promise is to create spaces where women feel seen, supported, and safe enough to reconnect with themselves. I lead with integrity, compassion, and truth, offering experiences that challenge women to grow while honoring where they are in their journey.
You can count on me to deliver work that is thoughtful, transformational, and deeply rooted in nervous system regulation, embodiment, and self-trust. Everything I create is designed to help women experience lasting change in a way that feels aligned, sustainable, and true to who they are.
I am a life coach, somatic practitioner, and intuitive guide whose work bridges modern transformational coaching with ancient wisdom traditions. My training has been shaped by renowned coaches, spiritual teachers, shamans, and medicine women, allowing me to integrate practical tools with deeper embodied and spiritual practices.
Over the years, I have witnessed women create profound shifts in every area of their lives when they learn to trust themselves, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with their inner wisdom.
I work with women from all backgrounds, beliefs, and faith traditions, helping them discover what freedom, fulfillment, and alignment look like on their own terms because liberation is deeply personal, and no two journeys look the same.
I am a guide, coach, and educator who helps women reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel aligned, meaningful, and sustainable. My communication style is warm, honest, and approachable.
I believe people create lasting change when they feel seen, supported, and empowered to trust their own wisdom rather than relying on someone else to have all the answers.
I speak with both compassion and clarity, creating spaces where women feel safe to be honest about where they are while also being encouraged to grow into what is possible. Whether I am teaching, coaching, writing, or leading retreats, my goal is always the same: to help women slow down, reconnect with what matters most, and move forward with greater self-trust, peace, and intention.
I believe that something deep in your soul prompted you to be here so let’s get to work.
Welcome, I’m so glad you are here.
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Somatic life coach, Maria Brito is known for her fabulous nervous-system regulation techniques that women call absolutely life-changing! World renowned for her magical retreats all over the world, Maria has made her home in Huntsville, Alabama after traveling the world for 30 years with her husband Luke who recently retired from the military. Lovingly called by her closest as Mama Maria, she is known for “keeping it real” and is loved for her authenticity, spunkiness, and loving nature. As a mother of two daughters and grandmother to five beautiful souls, through her teachings she shares from her own life experiences. Her focus is assisting women in the journey to connect to what needs to be healed within in order to create space for what they want to manifest. She believes that we all have the magnificence to provide healing to our own bodies and loves to remind women of their worth.
Maria is also a certified RYT-500 yoga instructor, a breathwork facilitator, and Human Design coach. She infuses her offerings with powerful practices and tools which assist her clients in coping with everyday overwhelm so they can live more joyful, and present lives. She is also a certified trauma-release facilitator. Her programs and world-wide retreats are infused with a high dose of self-love and have been described as life-changing, transformational, motivational, raw and deep. Women who have experienced her offerings, fabulous retreats and coaching will tell you that it is “a must” for every woman.
You can learn more about Maria and her offerings by following her on Instagram @AwakenwithMariaBrito or on Facebook at Awaken with Maria Brito