KAIRO EMBODIMENT
THE ARCHITECT BEHIND YOUR EDGE
I'm Maria. Not your typical coach, but your recalibration architect.
Born in Colombia, I carry the fire. Years as a pro basketball player forged a rare grit, relentless discipline, and a deep obsession with precision.
New York sharpened my edge. Ruthless standards. High stakes ambition. A refusal to settle.
Now, Bali grounds me in presence, integrating power with purpose.
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I work with men who don’t need saving.
They need sharpening.
Leaders, founders, visionaries who’ve built empires...
But know there’s another level:
The one where your body isn’t just keeping up. It’s leading.
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KAIRO is where performance meets legacy.
We don’t just train bodies.
We recalibrate your system.
We train your nervous system to hold:
→ More power.
→ More precision.
→ More presence.
So you can build without breaking.
With me, health isn’t a checklist. It’s your foundation.
Your edge. Your legacy.
We cut the noise.
Optimize the system.
And match your body to the weight of your ambition.
I’m not just here to count reps or tweak macros.
I’m here to challenge you, sharpen you, and make you unshakable.
Together, we don’t just sustain success. We expand it.
This isn’t fitness.
This is your foundation.
This is your legacy.
This is KAIRO.
THE KAIRO MASTERY TIMELINE
A Legacy of Mastery and Embodied Expertise
2011-2015
WHERE THE EDGE WAS FORGED
Before mastery, there was silence, sweat and the edge.
2011. Age 16
Pro Ball Colombia. Film School. Discipline, vision and a hunger for more.
2016-2020
THE ASCENT AND THE FRACTURE
Chasing greatness. Reaching it. Breaking beneath it.
2016. Age 21.
I moved to New York City alone.
First time in the U.S.
No connections. No comfort zone.
Just a dream to become a Producer.
The goal?
Break into Hollywood. Make it to Netflix.
Not just to work in the industry, but to create at the highest level.
2017. Dream, achieved.
From foreign city to Netflix sets in under a year.
What once felt impossible became my everyday.
2017. Doors opened.
Worked on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and You, HBO’s The Deuce, Happy, and the Emmy Award-winning Never Settle Show.
2019. Bigger stages.
Worked on the Hollywood film The Informer and music videos for Dua Lipa, Cardi B, and French Montana.
2019. Heights and hollows.
An Oscar Win..
From the outside it was glory. Inside, I was disappearing.
End of 2019. Burned out.
On paper, I had it all, but my body said otherwise.
Success was loud. My system was screaming quietly.
I quit.
Ever feel like you’re losing parts of yourself just to keep up?
Like the dream you chased isn’t the life you want?
That was me, so I walked away from the film industry.
Chose myself over a life that no longer fit.
2020. Everything changed.
I left production, and found what I was born to do.
Production was what I did. Coaching was who I am.
Not just a career shift, but a remembering of why I’m here.
2020-2025
WHERE THE SYSTEM WAS BORN
Obsession became structure. Structure became transformation
Then I got obsessed.
I’ve always been a nerd at heart: Curious, hungry, relentless.
When the world shut down, I did'n stop. I dove in.
What became as learning became a path of devotion.
Phase I: Foundations.
I built structure. Grounded strength. Mental resilience.
• Certified Personal Training (CPT)
• Functional Movement Systems I & II
• Mental Toughness
• Bodybuilding
Solid ground. Clear structure.
From here, I went deeper.
Phase II: Movement Mastery.
I trained in systems that demanded precision, presence, and flow.
• Animal Flow I
• Russian Kettlebell Challenge I & II
• The Kettlebell Club
• Muscle Clocks
This wasn’t just training. I was learning to read the body like a language.
Phase III: The Mechanics of Mastery.
I stopped guessing. I started seeing patterns most coaches miss.
• Precision Programming
• First Principles of Movement: PREPARE
• Evolve Biomechanics Mentorship
• Conor Harris Biomechanics
• Closed Chain Biomechanics
Advanced biomechanics and system based design became my obsession.
Phase IV: Performance Systems.
I refined my ability to deliver results to high-level humans.
• High-Performance Coach, Athletic Lab
• Moment Mentorship
• Common Sense Training
This is where strategy met precision, and coaching became art.
Phase V: From injury to peak performance.
I turned setbacks into systems. Rehab into results. Pain became data.
• Clinical Navigators
• Dynamic Sports Performance Coach
Everyone says, “I just want to get back to how I was before.” But what led to the injury was that version of you. We don’t go back. We build forward.
Stronger. Smarter. More precise.
This is where recovery became reinvention.
INITIATED BY THE BEST
Then everything shifted.
I met the two mentors who’ve shaped me for the past five years. They’ve coached NBA legends, Olympic gold medalists, elite performers in the NFL, MLB, and beyond.
Learning from them wasn’t just training, it was transmission.
Dr. Andy Chen.
Doctor of Physical Therapy. Mentor. Visionary.
He showed me how to bridge rehab and elite performance,
and how to think like a true movement strategist.
Dr. Craig Liebenson.
Doctor of Chiropractic. Pioneer of modern movement health.
His mentorship shaped how I understand resilience, longevity, and the full arc from pain to performance.
Their legacy lives through my work, and now, through yours.
FORGED IN THE FIELD
Life Time Fitness
The Foundation: Coaching Under Pressure
I joined Life Time Fitness and stepped into the real world. Everyday athletes. High-performing professionals. No time for theory. No room for fluff.
It’s where I learned to deliver, no matter who stood in front of me. Structured systems. Personal attention. Performance under pressure.
This was the proving ground.
Soho Strength Lab
Precision, Presence, Mastery
Next came Soho Strength Lab, a boutique NYC performance gym known for training pro athletes and elite clients who expect results on demand.
It was an environment built on precision and presence, and it demanded mine. Every rep, every cue, every breath had to count.
This is where I learned to deliver where nothing less than mastery would do.
Iconoclast Fitness
Legacy Requires More Than Strength
Then I joined Iconoclast. A private gym for celebrities and high net worth leaders facing chronic tension, aging joints, and nonstop demand.
I saw the truth: The men building empires weren’t just overworked, they were under supported.
They didn’t need more workouts.
They needed systems that could hold their power, not just produce it.
So I built them.
Momentum Fitness
Training the System Behind the Man
Momentum wasn’t just another gym.
It became the place where I started coaching men to lead from the body.
Not just to perform, but to endure. To recalibrate. To build legacies that last. This is where I began training the system behind the man.
BUSINESS VENTURES
2021. High ON Vibes
A digital platform built to train the body across a full year of progressive performance.
But the real gap wasn't strength. It was identity.
People didn’t need more workouts.
They needed a system built to anchor their power and hold their legacy.
2023. Peak Performance Pathways
Where rehab met high performance and rewrote the rules.
I helped men bounce back from pain, injury and pressure.
Not just to recover, but to return sharper, stronger and more resilient than before.
The goal was never healing. It was evolution.
2024: KAIRO Embodiment.
The culmination of it all.
KAIRO is where legacy driven men recalibrate the system behind their success:
Body. Mind. Energy. Identity.
This is elite performance coaching at its deepest level: Nervous system mastery. Strength without sacrifice.
Engineered presence.
Power that doesn't leak. It leads.
If you’re ready to recalibrate the system behind your legacy, start here.
LIVING THE WORK
Living in Bali.
Building KAIRO into a global movement.
Guiding legacy driven founders, investors, and elite performers to upgrade the system behind it all.
Currently studying Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Formal training beginning in 2025.
Because no breathwork, no ice bath, no protocol can fix what’s imbalanced within. Performance starts with the organs, the system, the internal terrain. Without that, nothing holds. Not even the strongest body.
And when I’m not building systems or decoding meridians?
I’m barefoot.
On my motorbike.
Chasing sunsets, waves, and wonder.
Rehabbing my ribs. Rewriting how movement feels.
Learning herbs, drinking tea like it’s sacred (because it is).
Singing louder. Laughing deeper.
Nourishing my nervous system as the real power source.
Because discipline without joy collapses.
This time, I’m building legacies, from the inside out.
This work lives in me. It’s not just what I teach. It’s who I’ve become.
If you’re building something that demands more than strength, this is your system.
MY MENTORS, AND THE WORLDS THEY OPERATE IN
You’re not just working with a coach. You’re inheriting the systems, precision, and philosophy of world-class mentors trusted by Olympians, elite athletes, and performance legends. I’ve trained under them. And now, I bring it to you.
You don’t need another coach. You need a system that honors the man you’re becoming.
If you’re building something that demands more than strength, let’s recalibrate it from the inside out.