Stephanie Wagner, NBC-HWC, MA, MM, NETA-CGEI

Stephanie Wagner is a board-certified health and wellness coach, meditation teacher, curriculum designer, group fitness instructor, and teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota with a masters degree in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching from the Center for Spirituality and Healing.Stephanie has a 20+ year career working at an executive level in the world of Corporate Training and Development, where she created and taught large scale training programs in subject areas like coaching, service, and wellbeing.

Stephanie’s passion for holistic wellbeing started with an interest in meditation that led her to study with some of the world’s most renowned teachers like Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Sharon Salzberg, and Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche.
As a coach and owner of her own coaching business (Inner Fire Health and Well-being Coaching), Stephanie employs mindfulness-based coaching techniques to help people live their best lives--with abundance, ease, and connection--by helping them understand how to leverage self-awareness, self compassion, and their strengths to make positive, sustainable behavior changes. She helps clients and students to cultivate awareness of the triggers and habits that drive them, to help them define strategies to make lasting behavior change.

Stephanie is inspired to bring wellbeing practices to as many people as possible and does so through her work as lead trainer, meditation coach, and meditation teacher with Healthy Minds Innovations, a non-profit affiliated with The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--and her work as a meditation teacher within the Tergar Meditation Community. Stephanie has been teaching meditation and co-leading meditation retreats for the past 15 years.

Areas of interest and expertise:

Meditation

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness

Habit formation

Neuroscience of Wellbeing

Tibetan Buddhism