Marylene Henry is an experienced yoga teacher with a background spanning events, operations, and strategy management across diverse global corporate environments. She applies a holistic, immersive approach to yoga, focusing on body systems, alignment, philosophy, and mindfulness, and writes for YOGI TIMES.
Yoga as a career, examined honestly
Marylene’s most substantial work for YOGI TIMES is a two-part practical guide to teaching yoga professionally: what it actually takes to become a certified instructor in 2026, and what a realistic yoga instructor salary looks like once qualified, a companion pair that has been translated across more than a dozen of YOGI TIMES’s international editions, including French, Greek, Ukrainian, Turkish, Slovak, Indonesian, Japanese, Swedish, Chinese, Danish, Portuguese, and Korean. She has also written on the historical origins of yoga, tracing the practice’s roots and etymology.
Corporate experience and yoga journey
Her corporate experience in diverse global environments has deepened her understanding of lifestyle’s impact on body and mind, and she draws on that same practical, operations-minded background in how clearly she breaks down the real costs, certifications, and earning expectations behind a yoga teaching career, treating it as a genuine profession with real numbers attached, not just a calling.