In 2024, Mary Novas founded Novasana, a yoga program centered around sustainability with the goal to help martial artists, athletes and active adults achieve fast recovery and optimized performance.
Mary began her yoga journey in 2004 while searching for tools to help cope with the effects of anxiety and PTSD. Over the course of the next 20 years, she taught thousands of yoga classes, led numerous teacher training groups, and completed over 500 hours of training herself, earning a E-RYT 500 teaching designation through Yoga Alliance. Mary is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and competitor with a rank of Purple Belt under Chelsah’ Lyons.