Nicole Marcia

Nicole (she/her) is an Ashkenazi Jew of mixed European descent. In 2009, she was awarded a master’s degree with a specialization in yoga therapy from Lesley University in Boston, MA. For 9 years, she served as the Director of Therapeutic Yoga Programming for the Provincial Health Services Authority at their Burnaby Centre for Mental Health & Addictions and Riverview Psychiatric Hospital. From 2007-2018, she worked as a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) at Onsite, the treatment arm of North America’s first safe injection site in Vancouver’s downtown eastside.