Featured Budo Sister: Guro Marie Lonero
Marieclare (Marie) M. Sia, MBA is a personal and professional wellness development consultant certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, a master fitness instructor, and an accomplished martial artist who is also certified in guided meditation by the Mind Body Institute of Hawai’i for Jin Shin Mind Body Therapy.
Currently she oversees the entire wellness and safety programs at the prestigious Loyola Marymount University located in Los Angeles, California.
Her Master degree in Business and Finance focused on management consulting and training and development, which led her to design and facilitate a multitude of workshops for hundreds of people. Topics have ranged from mind/body connection, to professional development, empowerment and self-discovery.
Outside her engaging life at the university, Marieclare manages to balance her passion for teaching fitness classes and training in martial arts. She cumulates over fifteen hours of weekly teaching and her broad knowledge enables her to cover a wide variety of topics such as Spinning, Strength Training, Pilates, and Yoga. For the past 20 years, she has been influenced by some of the finest martial artists of our time and was granted the rank of Black Belt in Thai Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts, and Maphalindo Silat by legendary instructors Dan Inosanto and Ajarn Chai Sirisute. Nowadays, Ms. Sia teaches martial art classes at the world-renowned Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts in Marina Del Rey, California and travels worldwide with her partner Daniel Lonero (XTMA International) to bring her passion and knowledge to countries such as Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Chile, England, Germany, and Luxembourg.
On a personal level, Marieclare has always been a strong advocate and a port-parole for abused women. It is in that spirit that she created and design Fight Strategies for Women. An innovative way to introduces women to self-defense strategies by acknowledging psychological and environmental perspectives, minimizing risk, and ultimately accessing quick and easy techniques to deter physical attacks. The program was also a direct counter-response to “self-defense” modules mostly taught by men, which fails however to address imperatives that only a female voice and perspective can bring to the discussion on assault over women.
Such various ranges of experience have helped shape Marieclare M. Sia into a unique multifaceted professional, giving her the ability to connect on a deeper level with her clients/students and ultimately empower them with the rare gift of self-fulfillment.