Take 5
Welcome to Your Take 5 Studio
You made it. Now breathe.
Notice what happens when you give yourself permission to pause. This is your space to step off the stress hamster wheel—whether you've got 5 minutes between meetings or 20 minutes to remember what your body feels like when it's not clenched.
Designed for professionals who've been running on fumes longer than they'd like to admit, the Studio gives you what actually works: resets that land, practices that stick, and relief you can access right now—for yourself and everyone you lead, serve, and care for.
Discover what's waiting inside:
150+ Take 5 Micro-Practices – Five-minute audio and video practices designed for your desk, your commute, those "I need a minute before I lose it" moments. You'll start reaching for these instead of your third coffee.
Live Guided Meditations – Something shifts when nervous systems sync up on the same intention at the same time. You'll feel it the moment you join.
Release & Receive Workouts – Watch what happens when emotional release meets movement. Fifteen to twenty-five minutes of strength building low-impact, high-relief practices that help you literally shake off what you've been carrying.
1:1 Coaching & Hypnotherapy – When you're ready to go deeper, you'll find yourself uncovering patterns you didn't know were running the show.
Begin with whatever calls to you today. Your nervous system is already responding.
Ready to bring Take 5 to your whole team or organization?
Custom Corporate & Clinical Wellness Programs available. Email: maria@take5.health
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About Us:
About Take 5 Digital Studio & Maria Mayes
Personalized Transformation for High-Functioning Professionals
Take 5 Digital Studio is a premier wellness platform founded by Maria Mayes, offering transformative well-being experiences for professionals seeking deep, sustainable change. Established in 2020, Take 5 is dedicated to Health Empowerment, Stress Management, and Mindful Consumption through personalized coaching, hypnotherapy, and innovative digital resources.
Maria's Unique Approach
Maria understands the real-world challenges of corporate life because she's lived them. Unlike typical wellness practitioners, she has navigated the fast-paced tech startup environment for over two decades. This authentic understanding of workplace stressors informs her transformational work with clients.
Maria's experience as a leader in a digital mental health company combined with extensive work in behavioral health settings has allowed her to test, refine, and validate her approaches in the most demanding environments. This clinical application ensures her techniques deliver tangible results where they matter most.
Services & Offerings
Take 5 specializes in personalized transformation through:
- 1:1 Holistic Health Coaching - Comprehensive support for professionals navigating stress, burnout, and life transitions
- 1:1 Hypnotherapy - Deep transformational work to shift limiting beliefs and create lasting change
- Individual Studio Membership - Ongoing digital support with guided practices, meditations, and mindful movement
- Corporate & Clinical Wellness Programs - Custom well-being programs for organizations and healthcare settings
The Take 5 Digital Studio serves as an ongoing resource for coaching and hypnotherapy clients, as well as participants in corporate and clinical wellness programs, providing continued support between sessions.
Maria's approach to mindful consumption is particularly distinctive, drawing from her personal journey, professional experience in substance use programs, and formal wine education credentials including her WSET Level 2 Award in Wines.
The Take 5 Promise
What truly distinguishes Maria's work is her ability to guide clients toward profound transformation through a practical approach that delivers tangible results. She combines technical expertise with intuitive guidance to create safe spaces where lasting change can naturally unfold.
Join Maria at Take 5 to discover how her unique blend of corporate experience, clinical training, and holistic practices can help you create a more balanced, mindful, and authentic life.
Education & Certifications:
- National Board Certified Health & Wellbeing Coach (NBC-HWC)
- Certified Chopra Total Well-Being Coach X 2
- Paul McKenna Certified Hypnotherapist
- MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) Trained
- Chopra Certified Meditation Instructor
- Certified Chopra Ayurveda/Health Instructor
- E-RYT200 Yoga Instructor
- Certified Breath Coach
- Certified Yoga Shred Teacher
- Yoga for Mental Health Certificate
- Applied Polyvagal Theory and Yoga Certificate
- Teaching the Neuroscience of Yoga Certificate
- WSET Level 2 Award in Wines with Distinction
- B.S. in Business Administration
- CPR & First Aid Certificate
