Marsha Banks-Harold

Marsha is the owner and manager of PIES Fitness Yoga Studio, where she provides Yoga Therapy, a holistic yoga approach to health and healing, to clients seeking balance in their lives, including an integrative process of amplifying and restoring health; educating and empowering clients to make clinically proven healthful choices about work, nutrition, rest, relationships, movement, and thoughts; supporting the entire person: body, energy, senses, intellect, and spirit.  She also teaches gentle, prenatal, vinyasa flow, kemetic, kids, and senior yoga and meditation on a daily basis to a diverse clientele.  Further she manages the day to day operations of the studio: marketing, budget, networking, recruiting, and scheduling of classes.  She provides oversight for all Yoga, Kick Boxing, Boot Camp, Zumba, and Belly Dancing classes.  In addition she manages fitness programs for local apartment complexes building a community for the residents of the complexes.  In addition she is the Health and Fitness Ministry Lead for Shiloh Baptist Church in Alexandria VA.  She also serves as a Yoga Coach for Bishop Ireton High School football team where she offers personal growth philosophy in addition to flexibility training.  She provides yoga instruction for seniors at Charles Huston recreation center in Alexandria VA.  She routinely teaches yoga for minority and underprivileged communities for children ages three through high school including programs such as: Howard University Kids N Culture; Power Up, Higher Achievement and local elementary schools.