Mayanā Clarissa Lisboa, MBA

Founding Trustee

Clarissa MayaNa Lisboa is a business development consultant and wellness program advisor with over 35 years of progressive experience across organizational governance, wellness retreat operations, educational program design, cultural integration, and community development. She brings a rare combination: the analytical rigor of an MBA in Sustainable Business and Conflict Resolution alongside 35 years of embodied practice across Yoga, Ayurveda, holistic health, regenerative agriculture, and Nonviolent Communication. Her consulting methodology begins with deep listening — she is known for an embedded, observational approach that produces interventions precisely calibrated to organizational culture, not imported from a generic framework. She works without positional authority and achieves structural change through consent, co-creation, and trust. Trilingual in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, cross-culturally fluent, and grounded in lived experience across the US, Canada, Hawaii, and Brazil she holds a documented record of guiding organizations through transitions that would otherwise become crises.

Her yoga and Ayurvedic path began as a teenager in Brazil, where dance first opened the door to a deeper experience of the body's inherent intelligence — a practice that unfolded into a profound spiritual journey, eventually leading her to the guidance of Baba Hari Dass and years of immersive community living at Mount Madonna Center in Northern California. As founder of Sacred Shakti Wellness for Women, she also supports clients in their journey toward balance, vitality, and purpose; specializing in Pancha Karma, an Ayurvedic Detox and Rejuvenation protocol. She has served organizations from startup formation through sustained development, and brings to every engagement the same quality of presence: grounded, ethically anchored, emotionally intelligent, and systems-oriented.

As an advisor to Matre Sofia, Clarissa Maya Lisboa offers the rare integration of business sdevelopment and soul-rooted wisdom; in devoted service to the flourishing of children, families, and the Earth.