Mariana, author and creator of Baby Zen, is a freelance writer and practicing metaphysician with a background in aromatherapy. Mariana has focused her writing on the powerful effects of meditation and human consciousness.  

Mariana herself experienced firsthand the detremental effects of having been given the label  "high risk pregnancy" by the health care community while carrying her twin girls, Heather and Megan, at the age of 40; while at the same time enduring the rare and debilitating pregnancy symptom of hyperemesis gravidarum throughout her pregnancy. 

As a practicing metaphysician, Mariana applied her own personal knowledge of mind/body approaches during her pregnancy; helping her to overcome the challenges of her own high-risk pregnancy and the symptoms that followed, resulting in carrying her twin girls -(weighing 6-10 and 6-5 at birth) - full term without any complications to herself and here babies. 

Her own personal experiences of applying mind/body approaches during her pregnancy passionatly led her to author and  design this unique guided meditation CD for pregnancy with an emphasis on high risk pregnancies, mothers of twins and first pregnancies, realizaing that there are many women out there today who are suffering both emotionally and physically that may not be aware of the extraordinary benefits that this simple,yet profound, natural healing approach can have during a difficult pregnancy.

Mariana has three children, a nine-year-old boy and a set of one-year-old twin girls. In leisure, she enjoys spending time with her children, as well as a passion for horses, yoga, meditation and kayaking, and also writes a children's column for her local Unity Church.