By Anne-Marie Barbier
Anne-Marie Barbier was born in Paris, France, and attended private schools in Tunisia, Algeria and Madagascar due to her father's international assignments. Anne-Marie
earned a BAC in Business and Office Administration in France. Anne-Marie's professional work experience includes five years as general director of a restaurant in Port
Grimaud, France; followed by six years in marketing and sales for several women's fashion retail stores in Saint-Tropez, France, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. From
1985 to 2003, Anne Marie worked for big corporations in United States and was involved in every aspect of marketing, media relations, customer service, management,
employees/ team-building, and leadership training.
While conducting training and researching management and leadership theory, Anne-Marie discovered Dr. Deepak Chopra's writings. In 2002 she became certified by the Chopra
Center for Well Being to teach a workshop titled "The Seven Universal Laws of Success in the Workplace." In 2004, Anne-Marie was certified to instruct Primordial Sound
Meditation and in 2005 she earned her certification to teach the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga from the Chopra Center for Well Being in California.
During the last few years in Atlanta, Anne-Marie was self-employed as a yoga, meditation and spirituality workshop instructor. In November 2005, she relocated to France
where she has opened her Yoga Institute, Milles Petales. She is a board member of the School of the New Spirituality and is leading monthly book clubs on the material in the
Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch. She serves as secretary of the Toulon area Lion's Club, where she is very active in working for the community, speaking,
and organizing business development activities and education. She is proud to be an American citizen since June 1995. See her bio and workshop posted on the School of the
New Spirituality website by clicking "About Us" and "Workshops." She may be reached at her email: Blissofspirit9@cs.com
