Mariane received her degree in Physical Therapy from Unicenp PR, Brasil in 2002 and has since entered the Masters program in the Science of Human Movement specializing in Biomechanics. She also owns Peniel Esportes e Fitness, a personal training and educational program provider in Brasil.
After majoring in Exercise Science in Santa Barbara, CA, Mariane returned to Brasil in 1994 to become one of her countries first personal trainers. From 1996 to 2001 she owned Fit & Co. Health and Fitness Center where she intensely pursued advanced information for herself and her staff in the area of human movement and the "sciences behind ‘what we do' as trainers".
During that period she authored the Technical Manual for the Fit & Co (including resistance training and exercise prescription) and became the Translator of the Reebok Step Training Manual and organized the International Reebok certification workshop for Step and "Reebok Functionality workshop" for her country.
As she states, "In 2000 I met RTS and my life changed…" She now presents educational workshops regularly including RTS Brasil and has performed numerous televised interviews on the subject.