Marion Schneider

Since 1983, Marion Schneider has been active in the healthcare industry, focusing mainly on human health and how it can be influenced by therapy. In the companies of her parents, Saunalux and Tomesa, she studied the effects of water, warmth and light to develop and sell products and therapies for health and the treatment of chronic diseases. In her own companies, Klinikzentrum Bad Sulza and Toskanaworld, she is also applying architecture, as well as art and music on the healing and relaxation process. She has contributed significantly to the introduction of balneophototherapy (Tomesa therapy), that is, the effect of the simultaneous application of water and light on human health, as well as Liquid Sound – bathing in lights and music. In her responsibility for patients, she has been dealing with focal short-time therapies like relaxation techniques, NLP and family constellation work, as these can also play a significant role in the rehabilitation process. Her personal goal is to give prevention and rehabilitation a key role in politics as well as in medicine as this is not only socially but also economically reasonable. Apart from her daily work, she is writing and publishing articles and books, is giving lectures and is contributing to conferences and congresses. Born on December 31st, 1956, she studied History, German Language/Literature and Ethnology in Marburg and Freiburg, Germany. During her studies she worked as a language teacher in Great Britain for a year. Together with her husband Klaus Dieter Böhm, she is the CEO and co-owner of Toskanaworld, an umbrella brand for “health and happiness” comprising a multitude of companies. Furthermore, Marion Schneider is an active author whose publications include collaborations with New York art photographer Linda Troeller. She started her international professional activities with membership in the International Spa Association in 1997 and became Board Member and later Chairwoman of the British Spa Association from 2004-2011. She was Board Member of ASTECC (American Spa Therapy and Education Certification Council) and was on the Advisory Board of the Corporate Health Improvement Program of the University of Arizona. Currently, she is part of the Global Thermal Think Tank and the Hot Spring Group of the Global Wellness Institute. She is also a board member of the Saxon Spa Association and an Advisory Board member of the Global Health Institute, Mel and Enid Zuckerman Institute of Global Health in Arizona. Since 1997, Marion has been a speaker at many national and international spa and business events in Japan, Italy, Cyprus, Brazil, USA, Monaco, France, Great Britain, Greece, Turkey and Australia. Alongside her business activities, Marion Schneider is active in many charities: Chairwoman of the International Children’s Fund Ourchild e.V. and the Pragerhaus Apolda e.V., a local history organization, as well as a board member of the Auerworld Festival e. V., the Privates Institut für mediale und kulturelle Vielfalt e.V., the Integralis e.V., the German Greek Society in Weimar and several others. Marion Schneider’s biography is in the Marquis »Who Is Who in the World« and the index of ”2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century” at the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge. In 2006, she received the award of Entrepreneur of the Year of Weimar Land, where she is located, and in 2018, she received the Order of Merit of the Land of Thuringia, the German state where she is living.