Title: Dancing Mystic

Gender: Female

Age: 37

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Location: San Rafael, CA

Maria has been involved in the healing arts for over 14 years, beginning her journey at 19 with a five year apprenticeship with a Lakota shaman from South Dakota, who blessed her to walk with the Sacred Pipe. Maria received her BA from New College of California, Santa Rosa, in 2001, with an emphasis on Sustainable Community through group process.

Prior to New College, Maria received certificates from the California School of Herbal Studies as a Certified Herbalist, and two Permaculture Design certificates through Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and Lost Valley Educational Center. She is a certified Master of Intuition Medicine through the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito, CA, where she studied for two and a half years. Maria received her certification in Hypnotherapy through the Alchemy Institute of Hypnotherapy in Santa Rosa.

Her development as a teacher and healer has been most greatly influenced by her training in Naka-Ima over the past 8 years, which she continues to deepen her commitment to as she works with her mentors Deborah Riverbend and Jaime Campbell. With Deborah, Maria co-teaches about three Naka-Ima Self-Awareness Intensives a year.

In 2003 Maria created her private healing practice Soul-Centered Healing Arts in order to offer the wisdom and skill she had acquired through her trainings and life experiences. Currently Maria is working towards her MA in Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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