Toni De Marco, author, teacher and founder of the Wellness & Sexual Healing Centers, has an extensive background in psychology, metaphysics, and health.  Her training includes having studied with many of the world’s leading Tantra instructors (see Healing Intimacy Problems below) and she, herself, has worked as a teacher, healer and counselor to both individuals and couples for over 30 years.  She has written and conducted scores of classes, lectures and workshops on a wide variety of subjects including health & beauty, spirituality, relationship, yoga, and sacred sexuality. 

The following “expanded” bio will help you to understand how an extensive background in the healing arts and other experience has brought Toni to the place where she can offer you the best possible techniques and program to maximize accelerated healing.   You may also want to read a shorter bio embedded in the section on Relationship Training Retreats.

The Early Years

When Toni was in her mid-20’s, she was introduced to many books that promoted the idea of creating your own reality with authors   like  Napoleon Hill   and    Norman Vincent Peale who taught about the power of positive thinking. Then a friend  took her to a lecture by Champion Teutsch, whose methods promised to give her the tools she needed to create any reality that she could envision for herself.  This set her off on a quest to master her own life.  

One of her strongest interests was in health and wellness and in the early years she studied many modalities including Touch for Health (a practice that Dr. John Thie developed based on Chinese medicine using kinesiology with muscle testing, energy balancing, and releasing energy through acupressure points along the bodies meridians). She studied may types of Yoga (Integral Hatha Yoga as taught by Swami Satchidananda; Kundalini Yoga with Yogi Bajan; and Ashtanga Yoga) and went on to teach Hatha Yoga for many years. More recently she produced Tantric Partner Yoga, a DVD, demonstrating simple yoga asanas for partners. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) was an important part of her early studies and she has come full-circle in more recent studies with Dr. Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics, based primarily on NLP techniques, and Quantum healing.


Nutrition and The California Way to Natural Beauty

During the years when Toni was an Internationally known commercial and fashion model, she became obsessed with nutrition and beauty secrets.  She quizzed many other super models about what made them more beautiful than the average woman.  Their backgrounds usually included growing up with healthy nutrition, active sports, and a balanced life.  This interest   eventually   led   her  to  writing   a    health   and   beauty   book,
The California Way to Natural Beauty. 

Five years of research went into writing and publishing the book (Grosset & Dunlap) and included studying the works of Adelle Davis;  Arnold Ehret; Raymond Dextreit; Louis Kervan; Dr.H.E. Kirschner; Frances Moore Lappé; Dr. Henry G.Bieler; Edgar Cayce (nutritional readings) and many, many, others.

Alternative Studies

Toni learned about the secret life of plants through authors Christopher Bird and Peter Thompkins; delved into natural cosmetics nurtured by moon cycles through the writings of Rudolf Hauschka; screamed out painful feelings by studying with Arthur Janov; discovered altering consciousness, alternative realities, and finding spiritual bliss through Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Her long-time friend and mentor Jess Stearn, author of Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet introduced    her    to    the      Cayce   family    and    Cayce’s  foundation,
The Association of Research and Enlightenment, where Toni evaluated book submissions and wrote articles for their magazine.

As Toni’s life quest for a life of health, happiness and fulfillment brought her to so many irresistible alternative possibilities, she wanted to bring her discoveries to the mass media through television and video, and to do this she eventually became a producer.

Celebrities in the health and healing professions she studied with as well as interviewed include, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Fritjof Capra, and Dr. Bernie Siegel.

Reaching the Masses

Her involvement in television only strengthened her interest in health and healing.  More and more healing modalities came her way and Toni enrolled in classes in everything from healing to Quantum Physics.  Uri Geller taught her spoon bending as well as mind-bending. Rev. Willard Fuller taught her about spiritual healing.  Through John-David’s learning institute (a certified International Institute on Neurosciences) she studied left-right brain functioning.  She walked on fire with Tony Robbins; learned how to find God through sex with David Deida; learned non-violent communication through Marshall Rosenberg; discovered her life’s purpose through Terry Cole-Whittaker; and learned about shamanic healing through Medicine Woman, Lynn Andrews.


Physical and Psychological Healing

Rolling and Chua-Ka facial  massage techniques, she learned through Oscar Ischazo’s Arica Training.  Through Rolfing she learned to do deep tissue massage and structural integration.  She also developed many structural alignment techniques of her own over 3 decades of yoga practice and is working on releasing a DVD in which she teaches a 15-minute routine that shows people how to do just this through playful movement, dance and yoga techniques. 

She learned energy healing and chaka balancing from Dr. Richard Moss.  Other healers she studied with include Roz Bruyere; the channelers Lazarus and Kevin Ryerson; dowser, Harold McCoy; the Yuen Method; and Margarida Moniz.  She is currently learning quantum healing techniques through Richard Bartlett and his Matrix Energetics training.

She learned about health and intimacy in relationships with Sandra Ray’s Loving Relationships Trainings, and many others.  This and her years of study in emotional, spiritual, and mental-psychological healing techniques prepared her for the counseling service she has performed for people both in and out of relationship during the last 20 years.

Over the years she also practiced the art of massage, and is especially fond of techniques she learned from Bob Ramey, who taught her a combination of Swedish, Thai, Shiatsu, and contact dance all rolled into one.

Healing Intimacy Problems

Toni studied Tantric sexual healing through internationally known teachers such as Lori Grace Starr and Robert Frey; Margot Anand (The Art of Sexual Ecstacy); Kutira & Raphael; Mare Simone and Corinna Clark; R.D. and Maralena Silby (American Tantra); Miriam Serman & John Hill and Charles & Caroline Muir.

Her most recent venture into the Video/DVD arena, Tantric Partner Yoga, is a tool to help couples to develop more intimacy in their relationships through sensual partner yoga and Tantric sexual healing techniques.


Psychological Counseling

Toni believes that through the therapeutic relationship, a person can better access his or her most powerful resource – his or her own self. She facilitates clients' growth by using a directive, action-oriented, educational approach to therapy.

Toni facilitates clients in identifying their beliefs, values, morals and feelings, then assists them in understanding how these affect past, present and future issues. She supports each person's individual journey, validates and applauds their differences, and assists them to develop, utilize and highlight their strengths.

Clients are facilitated in identifying and gaining insight into their unique life patterns and lessons, which allows for new shifts and understandings to occur. A client's increased ability to be aware and conscious of their choices allows for the development of dreams and visions they once thought to be out of reach.

Naturally, what develops is a more empowered life where dreams and visions do come true.

Sacred Relationships
Intimacy Training Retreats with Toni De Marco

Toni’s most recent endeavors have taken her to many exotic places around the world, and she is currently living in a bungalow on the beach in Koh Samui, a beautiful tropical island in Thailand, which she uses as a home-base while she travels around Asia presenting her Tantric Lifestyles retreats. Tremendous transformation and healing takes place over these four-day intensive trainings and are especially helpful for couples just starting out or who wish to renew and revive their relationships. Singles are also welcome. Please read more about these retreats under Relationship Training