From Apathy to Connection and Compassion

Mark Viglione's wellness journey began after witnessing his wife Natalie's health crisis. Despite never struggling with weight, he realized his poor diet and sedentary lifestyle wasn't the way.

His transformation started with basic improvements in diet and exercise, but Mark soon understood that genuine wellness goes deeper—requiring knowledge about food sources, toxin avoidance, minerals, clean water, emotional wellbeing and energy cultivation.

Initially drawn to intense martial arts like Muay Thai and Kung Fu, Mark eventually discovered Tai Chi and Qigong—ancient practices that became the cornerstone of his approach to health. These graceful yet powerful movements helped balance his nervous system and activate his innate healing capabilities.

Now a certified Qigong and Tai Chi instructor, together with his wife, Natalie, he founded the Forge and Flow Sanctum where he teaches weekly classes focused on releasing stagnant energy and renewing vital life force through movement, breathwork, meditation, and self-applied massage. He also teaches group classes locally in Eastern TN where he guides people of all ages to experience the power of their own energy.

"Understanding true health requires deprogramming and reconnecting with the natural way," Mark emphasizes. At the Forge and Flow Sanctum, he combines powerful yet gentle movement practices with breathwork, strengthening the body from the inside out, and positive mindset/self-love work to help members reconnect with their body, breath, and spirit (The Three Treasures in Chinese Medicine) and build greater resilience.

From Corporate Burnout to Holistic Healer

After 17 years in corporate sales and marketing, Natalie's health collapsed due to severe mycotoxin illness (black mold poisoning) and chronic stress, leaving her with brain fog, digestive issues, fatigue, and unexplained weight gain. She worked out (too much she came to find out), ate well (or so she thought), but that all was not enough...

Frustrated by the lack of answers from conventional medicine, and becoming a case study for naturopathic doctors, it was then she embarked on her own healing quest. This personal health crisis transformed her life's mission and sacred purpose. She discovered the critical importance of bioavailable minerals, the connection between environmental toxins and chronic disease, and the harmful effects of synthetic supplements, and more.

Today, Natalie is a Certified Root Cause Protocol Mineral Consultant, Certified Flower Essence Alchemist, and is a Master Herbalist under apprenticeship. She uniquely bridges ancient healing wisdom with a modern lens to see clearly today's challenges like EMFs, microplastics, and zero nutrients processed foods.

Together with her husband Mark, she founded the Forge and Flow Sanctum, where she guides members to remember their unique bodily needs, reclaim a profound relationship with the Divine Spirit within, release limiting patterns, and ways to raise and upgrade one's overall vibration.

"The most beautiful outcome of my quest in the reclamation of my body and health, was cultivating a profound connect and unconditional love for myself for the first time ever," Natalie reflects. "This is the wisdom I'm here to share—how to honor your body, the Divine Spirit within, reconnect with your innate healing power, and reclaim your vibrant health by raising your vibration on all layers and levels."