She has been teaching in Los Angeles since 2008, with a focus on seniors with dementia and other severe impairments. In the past Mary credited her kundalini yoga practice as part of the intervention that saved her life following a personal tragedy in 2003. She spent many years as a devoted practitioner, teacher, and teacher trainer. In 2018 she spoke out about the community profiting from human detention through a business relationship with ICE. She created a petition and website to bring attention to the issue, and then worked with a group of activists to demand change. But when the chronic abuse, corruption, and hypocrisy at the root of kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan was exposed in 2020, Mary knew it was officially time to move on. She is pursuing a new approach to her teaching and practice, one that better reflects her values of integrity, transparency, and authenticity. She completed Accessible Yoga Training in September 2020 and is committed to a teaching style welcoming all abilities and backgrounds. She brings her natural sense of humor to her classes, which focus on breath, movement, meditation, and self-acceptance. Mary considers herself (and all humans) a work in progress and encourages students to find honesty, accommodation, and introspection in their practice both on and off the mat.