I am Marie-Dominique Rail — creator devoted to light, healing, and the sacred path of transformation. My life has interwoven resilience, faith, art, and devotion into a journey of awakening, where every challenge, every victory, every loss, and every breath becomes an invitation to greater love, peace, and presence. As a chef, musician, author, and Reiki Master, I craft experiences that nourish the body, uplift the heart, and awaken the soul through conscious cuisine, healing music, spiritual writing, and intuitive guidance.

A graduate of the Institut de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ) in Montréal, I dedicated more than twenty years to mastering the culinary arts in Geneva, Milan, Las Vegas, and Montréal. As the founder of MariDo Caterer and MCHEF®, my greatest joy has always been to nourish others — first through exceptional cuisine, and later through subtle, energetic, and spiritual nourishment. Throughout my journey, my intention has remained constant: to transform food into a moment of memory, connection, and healing.

My commitment to conscious nutrition led me to create an organic, hypoallergenic line of herbs and spices, and to publish several bilingual cookbooks, including Guide culinaire du mode de vie de Chef Marie, 100 French Gluten-Free & Low-Carb Recipes, Chef Marie’s Lifestyle Food Guide, Salades aux vinaigrettes sans huile et ses accords de vins, Oil-Free Salads & Wine Pairings – Chef Marie, Gâteaux et desserts – Douceurs d’enfance, Family Recipes: 100 Easy and Exquisite Creations, and Cakes & Desserts – Childhood Memories. These works guide readers toward healthier eating while inviting them to rediscover nature, gratitude, and the sacred dimension of nourishment.

During the profound experience of my bone marrow transplant, my creative and spiritual worlds united. In the heart of that passage, I wrote three spiritual books designed as companions for those navigating healing, grief, or inner transformation. Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful — Healing by Planting Love Within: Meditations and Affirmations to Journey Through Life with Confidence and Anchor in Your Inner Rock offers meditations and affirmations for reconnecting with inner strength, alongside its enriched French edition, Semper Fidelis: Fidèle à soi-même, guérir en semant l’amour en soi: méditations et affirmations - traverser la vie avec confiance et pour s’ancrer à son roc. I then wrote, Beyond the Veil: Living the Presence of the Invisible and the Continuity of Love and its French counterpart Au-delà du voile: vivre la présence de l’invisible et la continuité de l’amour, inspired by the passing of my godmother Constance and my eldest brother Jeff, who left this world two months apart.

My upcoming work, The Journey to Wholeness: Awakening Through the Healing Path – 52 Weeks of Discovering Within, and its French edition, Le Voyage vers la Plénitude – Un guide spirituel de 52 semaines accompanies readers on a year-long journey toward inner peace and spiritual awakening.

As a pianist and composer, I have recorded nine meditative and therapeutic albums, including Mother-Earth Vol.1 (2003), Father-Sky Vol.2 (2005), Nation Of The Stars Vol.3 (2007), LUV Vol.4 (2014), Mirrors Of Souls Vol.5 (2017), Semper Fidelis – Meditations & Relaxation Vol. 6 (2022) in both English and French versions, and Beatitudo Hymn: Renaissance (2025). Available on all platforms, my music is a form of audible prayer — a sacred language bridging the visible and the invisible, offering calm, healing, and inner alignment. Each composition serves as a sonic sanctuary, inviting listeners to breathe, settle, and return to themselves.

My search for meaning has deepened into a profound spiritual revelation that led me to become a Reiki Master, intuitive healer, and spiritual guide. 

My philosophy arises from lived experience: “A healer must first heal themselves. It is from this place of inner peace that we can truly walk beside others.”

In 2023, I underwent a life-changing initiation: cancer. What could have been an ending became a powerful rebirth. Through prayer, music, faith, and unwavering trust in life, I rediscovered serenity, purpose, and the joy of sharing the light that guided me. My story, highlighted in At Least They Don’t Shoot the Piano Player (Hometown News, 2023) reflects my mission of resilience, hope, and spiritual awakening.

Today, I dedicate my life to helping others remember their true nature: luminous beings experiencing human life. Through my books, meditations, music, and energy work, I offer a sanctuary of gentleness, presence, and clarity. My body of work softly reminds us that healing is not an act of fixing, but a return — a living remembrance of the light already within us.

“My path has been creative, demanding, joyful, humble, and infinitely sacred. If even one step of my journey illuminates a moment of yours, then every lesson, every note, every prayer will have fulfilled its purpose.”