Staff & Advisory
We are a global movement …
… dedicated to the rise of the Divine Feminine in balance with the Divine Masculine.
We offer programs to awaken the Magdalena Within, both training Energy Practitioners to give Magdalena Energy Sessions and preparing teachers to share the wisdom of Mary Magdalena around the globe. Our Magdalena Healing Society members share healing frequencies in every walk of life–business, coaching, education, and healing, to name just a few.
We are a global movement …
… dedicated to the rise of the Divine Feminine in balance with the Divine Masculine.
We offer programs to awaken the Magdalena Within, both training Energy Practitioners to give Magdalena Energy Sessions and preparing teachers to share the wisdom of Mary Magdalena around the globe. Our Magdalena Healing Society members share healing frequencies in every walk of life–business, coaching, education, and healing, to name just a few.
Magdalena Healing Staff
Mary Sise
Program Director
An international speaker, teacher, counselor, and co-author of the book: The Energy of Belief: Psychology’s Power Tools to Focus Intention & Release Blocking Beliefs, Mary Sise, LCSW, DCEP, has more than 40 years of clinical experience working with thousands of clients. In her practice and teaching, Mary focuses on how traumatic or overwhelming life experiences can cause spiritual disconnection or soul loss, resulting in dis-ease on a mental, emotional, or physical level. Her passion for truth led her to Sai Maa in 2001. Since then, Mary has served as the Director of the Sai Maa Transformational Healers Program, the Healers Internship, and currently the Magdalena Healing Program. Married with children and grandchildren, Mary has the capacity to bridge complex spiritual concepts into concrete practical application. Her teaching style is one of being refreshingly human and also very deeply in love with the Divine.
Laura Fontaine
Program Administrator
From Magdalena Healing’s beginning, Laura Fontaine has served tirelessly as its Program Administrator. She brings this same devotion to her other important role as the mother of two boys. In fact, the powerful devotion of Mary Magdalena and Master Jesus was what called her to enroll in the Magdalena Practitioner Program herself. Passionate about her spiritual journey, she first began exploring spirituality and healing modalities in 2009. She met Sai Maa in 2011 and has never been the same since.
Lisa Guinan
Customer Care and Certification
Lisa is a Life Coach, Certified Magdalena Energy Practitioner and Naturopathic Herbalist. Since 2008, she has run a successful business as a practitioner, teacher and examiner of Herbal Medicine. Lisa participated in the first Magdalena Practitioner Program in 2017. Embodying the energies changed everything for her as the healing energy infused into all aspects of her work. Lisa is fully committed to sharing the exquisite Magdalena energy so that others can receive the life-changing transformation that she herself experienced.
Cédric Dufour
Media & Program Support
Cédric Dufour started his professional life as a business consultant and project manager. He quickly realized that he wanted to support companies to become more humane and respectful. He now works as Tai Chi Illumination teacher, transformational coach, and energetic healer. Cédric participated in the first Magdalena Practitioner Program in 2017. The Magdalena energies have supported him to balance masculine and feminine energies within himself, the combination of internal power with tenderness and compassion.
Magdalena Advisory Board
Diane Breneman
Since 2010, Diane Breneman has been teaching meditation in a variety of venues to people from all walks of life. Her passion for the Divine Feminine led her to study with Her Holiness Sai Maa, whose teachings form the foundation of her approach to spiritual practice. Prior to teaching contemplative practices full time, Diane spent over 25 years as an attorney, creating a national practice representing catastrophically burned people, 80% of which were burned children or parents who lost a child to a burn injury.
Caroline Houle
Caroline Houle became a certified NLP coach in 2015. In 2016, she concluded a 20-year career in finance to create her own coaching and training business. She loves witnessing her clients unlock their full potential. In her work, she emphasizes integrity, authenticity, and sustainable results.
Caroline has been a student of H.H. Sai Maa since 2013, and she became a Magdalena healing practitioner at the beginning of 2018.
Toni Clow
For over four decades, Toni Clow, has worked as an educator, practitioner, and administrator in her role as an Emeritus Associate Professor of the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Receiving honors such as the the Distinguished Fellow Award by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners, Toni has served both regionally and nationally to enhance child and adolescent health care and the practice of nursing. Her decorated career has given her the opportunity to work with women of all ages and stages in life. Through this, she has witnessed a great need for change—a way to bring forward the Divine Feminine energies of humanity, to balance and harmonize with the Divine Masculine. She is grateful for the opportunity to advance this paradigm shift through the Magdalena Healing program.
Sophie Michaud
With more than 20 years of experience as a Medical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases specialist in Québec, Canada, Sophie Michaud is currently completing a PhD in Quantum Medicine. She aims at integrating quantum physics, medicine, and spirituality in a new paradigm for healing. To that end, she is devoted to embodying the Magdalena Healing frequencies. She has been studying meditation and healing with Sai Maa since 2009 and is particularly interested in healing through intention, Shakti mantras, and the oneness consciousness between the healer and client.
Kerstin Schoen
Born and educated in Austria until age 23, Kerstin Schoen received her Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of New Mexico in the U.S., the state where her in-depth training in energy medicine also began. Her early work as a Child Life Specialist taught her to bridge the physical and metaphysical worlds to serve people in crisis. Since 2008, she has been training practitioners throughout the world in healing through resonance. Her considerable experience and expertise in the field of energy work supports the Magdalena Healing program in its global mission to awaken the Divine Feminine in humanity.
Clare Sheehan
In Ireland, Clare Sheehan has co-directed a college of homeopathy and served on the committee of a European network for homeopathy education to create standards for education models and teaching. Along with this experience in curriculum development, Clare brings to Magdalena Healing a passion for deep transformation and soul work. Since a young age, she has been aware of a deep connection with Mary Magdalena. She holds a Masters degree in Integrated Healthcare, a homeopathy practitioner license, certificates in Magdalena energy & NLP and takes a leadership role in her spiritual community.
Cara Compani
Cara is an attorney whose work and passion have focused on criminal justice reform for over a decade. Beginning at an early age, Cara questioned the inequality she saw around her. With this, her interest in Magdalena originally stemmed from creating the balance between the divine feminine and masculine on the planet—a central part of Mary Magdalena’s mission. She is now committed to bringing the core values of Magdalena—compassion, healing, fearlessness, and ultimately love—to her family, work, and all areas of her life. Cara has been a student of Her Holiness Sai Maa since 2010 and completed the Magdalena Practitioner Program in 2020.
Liz Whatley
Liz Whatley earned her Masters in Social Work and has maintained a thriving clinical private practice for over 16 years. Earning certifications for working with trauma, she has supported hundreds of individuals to create freedom from past wounds. Through the Magdalena Practitioner Program, Liz awakened to the power of energy in healing. The balance of Divine Feminine and Masculine she encountered through this program gave her access to something she had always sensed missing from her work. The program has facilitated healing for herself and her clients. She also loves bringing the energies of Mary Magdalena into her home. Liz feels deeply grateful to have the teachings of Mary Magdalena and Her Holiness Sai Maa to assist her and her husband in educating three young boys.
