Maria's Bio
When I was a kid I spent a lot of time running around in nature –while your feet are moving your mind is conversing with imaginary friends and wildlife. Sometimes I’d go rock hunting. My cousin would challenge me to stalk a butterfly, and off I’d go, flitting this way and that imitating the dance. Before I started school everything was surreal when I'd climb trees and swim in the pond. The family was a good place to be. They understood that the realities of contemporary life were lost in the visions of what could be. After graduation from Mission High, I spent sometime being a political activist, honing my ability to convience people that there was a better way to live life, learning to transfer my anger into plausible causes. Demonstrating made me feel important, but it never felt exactly right. It was frustrating at best, excruciating at worst. My family was exasperated over my choice of politics over spirit and land. Life in the future seemed so dark and impossible. I developed a depression that took me to the bottom of the pit.
Somewhere down the line I started teaching ways of Earth. My first step was as a guardian for Indigenous Elders. The second step was… well never mind, you get the idea.
One day I picked up a pen and started writing. I was nearly 40 years old. I sent my little essays out to magazines and got rejected a lot. When I'd had it, I begin channeling prayer wheels for individuals.
Four years into my PrayerMaking career, I got a call from Arielle Ford asking for a story to put in her anthology, Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Teenage Soul. It was a vision experience written about the first time I saw my life partner, and I was paid a staggering $100.
With my head reeling from all this money, I plunged into writing books of EarthWisdom, teaching and leading ceremony full time, saying good-bye to not being seen. I wrote nonstop for the next five years, and had two books published by Bear & Company. It was a rewarding experience, but after Legends & Prophecies of the Quero Apache and Prayers and Meditations of the Quero Apache, I wanted to do more than what the editors at the company wanted, and decided to move into the world of self-publishing.
I spent two years re-tracking –working our earth lessons, learning to write how-to, practicing speaking in public. At the end of those years I created my SpiralDancing Life apprenticeship program. I would say that the program has produced some of my best ah-ha moments in healing and growth, and I will admit that the entire apprenticeship program borders on ingenuis.
It turns out I’m a really overamped-ceremonialist with no hobbies or special interests. My favorite thing to do is ceremony and talking philosophy with people.
I listen to 60s music and I only watch happy movies. I motivate myself to move forward by going out and playing with friends when I am afraid. And now that I'm grown up, I've turned into Grandpa.
Somewhere down the line I started teaching ways of Earth. My first step was as a guardian for Indigenous Elders. The second step was… well never mind, you get the idea.
One day I picked up a pen and started writing. I was nearly 40 years old. I sent my little essays out to magazines and got rejected a lot. When I'd had it, I begin channeling prayer wheels for individuals.
Four years into my PrayerMaking career, I got a call from Arielle Ford asking for a story to put in her anthology, Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Teenage Soul. It was a vision experience written about the first time I saw my life partner, and I was paid a staggering $100.
With my head reeling from all this money, I plunged into writing books of EarthWisdom, teaching and leading ceremony full time, saying good-bye to not being seen. I wrote nonstop for the next five years, and had two books published by Bear & Company. It was a rewarding experience, but after Legends & Prophecies of the Quero Apache and Prayers and Meditations of the Quero Apache, I wanted to do more than what the editors at the company wanted, and decided to move into the world of self-publishing.
I spent two years re-tracking –working our earth lessons, learning to write how-to, practicing speaking in public. At the end of those years I created my SpiralDancing Life apprenticeship program. I would say that the program has produced some of my best ah-ha moments in healing and growth, and I will admit that the entire apprenticeship program borders on ingenuis.
It turns out I’m a really overamped-ceremonialist with no hobbies or special interests. My favorite thing to do is ceremony and talking philosophy with people.
I listen to 60s music and I only watch happy movies. I motivate myself to move forward by going out and playing with friends when I am afraid. And now that I'm grown up, I've turned into Grandpa.
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Maria Yraceburu
310 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road #107-403 San Marcos, CA 92078 |
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