Hi! I'm Marissa
BE A CREATOR OF YOURSELF
There is creation afoot.
Inside, I hear the loud hum that resonates within us all.
I strive to continue this path of pursuing the humming within.
It is there, I am home.
To hold our failure as close as our success.
What is evolving here is the interconnectedness that is woven through us.
Between the space out there and the space within, we would not know the actual value of our most significant
accomplishments without reaching the depths of defeat.
-M.Quinonez
Welcome && Thryve
Your Presence is an Honor
It's a pleasure to be a part of this community! I am Marissa, the owner of Thryve Yoga Holistic Health and Wellness Centre, LLC, located in Amsterdam, New York.
In 2010, at the age of 18, I graduated from Massage Therapy at a Charter College in Southern California. I then worked under Dr. Joseph Koh, a DAOM and LAC, at New Hope Acupuncture as a medical assistant and massage therapist, assisting in various healing modalities.
In 2016, began my Human Services Degree at a Community College in Upstate New York.
With Yoga, I have been practicing religiously since 2018. I had been highly interested in it since my teenage years, but I didn't know the essence behind it.
Completed my 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2024 with Allie Van Fossen, CEO of The Body, Mind, and Soul Studio. Then, leaned fully into my 300-Hour Yoga Teacher and a 50-hour breathwork Training with Selena Garefino (Sept. 2024), and the completion of the YTT program in 2025. Moving straight into 100 hours of studying Katonah Yoga, developed by Nevine Michaan.
Through all the years of gravitating toward helping or healing others, psychology, mental health, and self-care books, routines, and rituals have all brought me to where I am right now.
This centering point is the only moment where the chaos out there begins to settle in here (points to head). And I want to share it all with you!
It's not about how many handstands you can do.
It's about how deep your breath can reach within.
I do not claim to heal others or that I know better. I choose to learn more in my life and what's helped me find stillness, even just for one minuscule moment, and that's something.
Please, take your time here and remember how capable you are.
Move with intention & that even if you can give only 1%, that is enough.
Let's tend to the spaces we don't normally get to.
See you inside.
Marissa Quinonez
Hello
The studio opened in early 2024.
Offering the creation
of space within.
It is very, very easy to get lost, and what I desire is more.
Not more confusion or ache, instead, a time to return the attention that I give to life, back to myself.
The same way you tend to out there (points index finger), bring our awareness right here.
Remember, Yoga is a way of life, not just a Physical movement class. It's not how far one can bend or be flexible. It is a reminder that you are consciousness within a physical body and how we can remind ourselves, "hey, I'm in here, don't leave me behind". Life becomes chaotic and messy. It is very easy to move through each day, putting our beautiful selves on the back burner. Thryve is here to provide a safe space where we can set aside an hour in our day to listen to what often gets shut out or drowned out by life's noise. Welcoming you with open arms!
This practice is so expansive and immersive that teaching it is a gift, an honor, and a privilege.
Explore Mindfulness With Me
Cultivate Growth
There are many different options I personally use to enhance my life.
Using online platforms such as this has held me accountable nearly every day. The people I value to guide me into awakening are Allie Van Fossen, the CEO of "The BMS studio," and Selena Garefino, a woman who's an artist of her life wearing many hats, Mary Stockton, a "Breathwork Facilitator," and Jeff Bomberger, the author of "Awakening Soul Force."
In discovering these processes, we delve deep into a transit state of being.
In these places, we allow ourselves to deepen the connection with our actual human attainment.
Welcome and Thryve!
Honor your inner self
Is it just me, or are we all aspiring to deepen this anonymous human connection that lingers in the back of our minds?
I'm here to shed light on the awareness of something a bit more abstract to the human whole.
Allowing each of us to delve deep into our bona-fide being.
Something that is unspoken and felt deeply.
"Look at your mind and see if there is space. Or is your mind so occupied, so full of knowledge, problems, desires, longings, and fears that it has no space within it? You must have space in order to understand. If you are committed, if you are occupied all the time, as you are, where is the space? Without space, you are going round and round in circles."
1974- Krishnamurti
stand in your truth
“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she just takes a strawberry, puts it in her mouth, and enjoys it thoroughly. Tigers above, tigers below. This is actually the predicament that we are always in, in terms of our birth and death. Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to love Yourself and and Your World.