The Wellness Journey with Lynnis Woods-Mullins with guest Dr. Marcus Penn aired April 5th-11th
It is still rare to find a traditionally trained Medical Doctor that also recognizes the importance of the mind, body and spirit connection. Dr. Marcus Penn, MD, C.Y.T. is such a Doctor and Renaissance man ( He is a Certified Yoga Instructor, Artist, Author and Photographer) and is passionate about the importance of taking care of our mind, body and spirit. Dr. Penn shares with us his prescription for wellness. He also shares how we can inform our bodies, empower our mind, and heal our spirit every day to achieve wellness. Join Dr. Penn and me for an informative and inspiring interview.
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Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn, M.D., C.Y.T. brings over 10 years of experience working with diverse populations and age groups as a health and wellness consultant. He has a strong passion for informing people about holistic and medical modalities that support living a healthier life. In this role Dr. Penn helps populations become informed of their own health and empowers them to adopt healthy behaviours that lead to their healing.
His healthcare background has focused on public and community health. His community health experience includes: reviewing community health and medical grants for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; working with the UCSF Radiation Oncology Department as Coordinator of Community Outreach; consulting with the Ethnic Health Institute of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, CA; and serving as a project coordinator for a Heart Health Study looking at the benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids in African Americans. His local community involvement has ranged from organizing and facilitating Men’s Health & Prostate Cancer Screening Events and Seminars to providing health education for faith-based organizations to participant recruitment for preventive health
studies. Dr. Penn continues to promote conscious healthy living practices on local, internet, and national television and radio.
Dr. Penn is a Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT) in the Raja and Hatha yoga styles receiving training through a two-year Integral Health Fellowship with the Niroga Institute in Berkeley, CA. He teaches weekly yoga classes in his native San Francisco Bay Area. As the founder and CEO of Self Care Reform Wellness Consultancy, he focuses on providing tools and strategies for self-awareness, personal transformation, stress reduction and lifestyle change for individual, group and organizational clients.
Dr. Penn is a native of San Francisco and currently lives in Oakland. Harnessing his many talents as a community health physician, photographic artist, yoga teacher, wellness consultant, workshop facilitator, poet, author, and
speaker, Dr. Penn is passionate about living, seeing and moving through life fully and helping others do the same. His travels have taken him to six continents and in 2012, he released his first book on healing photography, Sunset Therapy: A Prescription for Healing.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a Minor in German Studies from Morehouse College in Atlanta, with honors, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Penn received his M.D. from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and then went on to continue his medical training at Alameda County Medical Center Highland Hospital in Oakland.
Since releasing “Lori Leak Travels to Paris” I have been sharing it across the Internet and using to engage in conversations on-line and in local groups, about empowering girls. Lori Leak was published just before the 1000 Black Girl Books movement, which sparked attention to the lack of children’s literature featuring female heroines and role models for Black girls. This is an important conversation, globally. Currently, I am busy introducing the Lori Leak to libraries and classrooms in Denmark where I am residing right now. “Lori Leak Travels to Paris” is being used to teach English to 4th through 6th grade Danish children.
I founded Holistic World with the vision of opening Holistic World centers globally. The mission of the centers being that to provide a modern day sanctuary on the high street for the mind body and soul. Stemming from my wish to provide inspiration and good well-being for my children and children all over the world I had the idea to write a series of children ’s yoga books which children could read and enjoy individually or as an adult. The aim of the Magnificent Me, Magnificent You series is to highlight to children the many wonderful qualities they have within and also the amazing beauty and power of the natural world.
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