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Mairin Smit is a Performance & Wellness Coach, Yoga & Meditation Instructor, and Founder of Five Winds – Performance & Wellness Coaching. She is passionate about helping performers achieve vitality, balance, and personal wellness throughout their performing careers.
Mairin coaches performers using body and movement based methods and meditation techniques to help them prepare for and recover from the stress and intensity of performing. She also works with performers in need of a refresh to find focus and precision in their performing careers. Her clients include actors, dancers, musicians, athletes, leaders and entrepreneurs who spend significant time presenting in front of audiences.
She has led workshops on yoga for performing, performance preparation and post-performance recovery at Canadian Stage, Toronto Fringe Festival, Hillside Festival, Ankh Yoga and Peel District School Board. Her work on performance and wellness has been featured in Intermission Magazine, Elephant Journal and Cue to Cue: The Performers Podcast.
Mairin holds an HBA in Theatre Performance from the University of Toronto. She is a certified yoga instructor in Hatha, Restorative, Yin, and Chakra yoga and a Mindfulness Meditation teacher. She served for seven years as the Artistic Director of Glasswater Theatre, a Toronto based independent theatre company committed to fostering new methods of performance creation and exploring the intersection between reality and theatricality. She has worked in Toronto and abroad as an actor, director, and arts administrator.
Mairin is currently based in Toronto, ON where she coaches performers from all over the world in person and online. Find out more about her work on her website: www.fivewinds.ca.