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Shine Without Shame

Release what Blocks your Radiance

The world needs your gifts... it's time to step into your light!

Break through the fears that keep you from shining your bold bright beautiful colors in a holistic, creative and magical journey.

A holistic integrative approach

The limiting stories holding you back are not just mental beliefs. Imagine a holographic globe of emotions, memories, beliefs, expectations and ancestral traumas embedded in your energy field. Each time you try to move beyond your fears, the entire shebang is triggered and overlayed over your perception, distorting your current reality.

You need a holistic approach to re-weave that pattern into the brilliant life you want. You are a multi-layered being and it's all connected. Address emotions, mind, body, soul and spirit. Go to the core issues and the energy patterns holding them in place. This empowers you to change your limiting stories from within by reweaving the fabric of your being.  

Enjoy a creative transformation

Transformation is challenging.

Breakthroughs can be painful. But when you bring creativity, art and ceremony into the journey, it becomes a playful discovery!

The practice of Story Alchemy is a blend of story-building, re-weaving energy patterns and aligning with your dream, gifts and potential through sound and movement Alignment Alchemies.

Maria combines this with Artchemy projects that radically change the way you see and respond to your circumstances, the way you perceive yourself and the way you connect to others, the universe and your tribe.

A shamanic approach that can flip your world in a blink!

Both quantum and neuroscience are just  catching up with the shamans of old. They are recognizing shamanic principles such as the Twin Law of Energy and Attention, the power of acceptance, intention and gratitude and our core nature as energy beings as well as the power of sound and emotions to generate radical transformation.

Unfortunately, our Western culture traps us in a mental attitude that steals the wisdom of our heart, the truth in our body, the effectiveness of energy practices and the relevance of creativity and imagination in our transformation.

Break free of that mental cage and see your wings gracefully unfolding.

"Maria Mar and Yollana Shore, I just finished listening to your conversation in the storytelling video and had so many take-aways. When you began talking about the Prosperity Thermostat, it resonated very strongly. Financially, my parents never had enough as they grew up during the Great Depression so I realized I have been living a theme of "not enough." I look forward to working with my Ancestors in the process you described. Thank you both so much for this time and for sharing your conversation."

~Julie Holly
Inner Radiance Coaching

Personal and professional development designed for women

As a woman you face challenges and have gifts that are different from the male-dominated formulas available out there that often make you feel that there's something wrong with you. Explore a heart-based wisdom that comes from the Sacred Feminine School of Wisdom and gives you ways to change that resonate with you.

Includes a supportive community

Included in this program are two women communities: our free closed Butterfly Waves FB group for inspiration and celebration and our Butterfly Waves Premium Support Community here, on a private, secured platform for you to ask questions, join deep conversations and share your process.

What if change could be a magical journey?

What if the results you want did not have to come out of struggle, pushing, fixing or stressful approaches. What if you could employ your creativity, enjoy your journey, discover your magic mojo and uncover your feminine gifts and in this exciting adventure you shifted your world and found yourself  "suddenly" inhabiting the dream that seemed so far?

"I felt challenged and loved unconditionally at the same time. Gained insights, as well, and am using your book to inspire me further."

- Nancy Fairbrother

Course Summary

In this creative holistic journey, you will reweave the energy fields holding old limiting stories that keep you from shining in the world in your bright, bold, beautiful true colors and from sharing your gifts and talents with others to make a profound change in the world. 

You will combine shamanic insights, energy work and creative projects to dismantle the different layers in those old stubborn patterns in a way that will not push your mind, creating resistance ~but that uses your feminine gifts and way of learning to help you embody your vision, free your radiance and share your gifts joyfully and organically.

There is nothing to fix. You are not broken. Learn why your fears are sensible, how Historical Female Gender Trauma, Female Family Karma and current double standards are behind your fear and how to address this fear using your feminine gifts, creativity and holistic experiences -- so that the change will feel pleasurable, real, integrated and happening now, just as you are.

  • ​​ Break free from the top 5 challenges that keep women from shining bright!
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  • ​​ Experience a creative-holistic approach to transformation that addresses all the layers needed to reweave your old patterns.
  • ​​ Reweave the energy fields holding old limiting stories to rewrite your life
  • ​​ Enjoy shamanic insights and tools that are practical spirituality empowering you to reframe your obstacles into a bridge to your goals.
  • ​​ Have a ton of fun with sound and movement alchemies and feel it as you release the patterns keeping you stuck.
  • ​​ Address these five challenges that keep you from shining without shame:
  • ​​ Challenge 1: Fear of shining and outshining others, then being rejected.
  • ​​ Challenge 2:Feeling frustrated with lack of results and getting distracted.
  • ​​ Challenge 3: Feeling intimidated about reaching to the "giants" in my field
  • ​​ Challenge 4: Fear or speaking or delivering new messages that are new, controversial or may produce discomfort.
  • Challenge 5: Working alone, feeling unsupported, fear of launching.
  • ​​Do everything at your own pace in the privacy of your home.
  • ​​Includes access to two communities for celebrating, sharing, getting support and more.
  • All levels include:Maria Mar's book: "Shine without Shame: Invitation to the Peacock Sisterhood."
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 "I think just being able to name these challenges has propelled me on my way out of them. Maria Mar, your insights and thoughts are such powerful waves sent my way in this river of change I am swimming through.You are so generous in sharing your own story and experience of how you worked through these challenges." 

Pragalbha Doshi
Butterfly Woman and entrepreneur

Course Curriculum

Maria Mar

Are you struggling with putting your gifts “out there”? Then Maria is your guide to breaking free from the fears and limitations that steal your gifts from the world. Maria Mar is a storyteller, author, poet, performer, artist and shaman with more than 40 years of experience in transformation through the arts. She has helped creative women in three continents to embody their purpose, unfold their potential, share their gifts and awaken their creative genius. She is a scout for you during change and challenges and helps you go from where you are to where you want to be. Maria invites you to play for your transformation in a magical process that employs creativity to design the life you want. Maria specially loves to work with multi-talented women who are ready to be change-makers but struggle to integrate all their gifts to serve the world. Her shamanic stories are journeys of transformation, manifestation and liberation that lead to potent, immediate and deep changes in your real life.

Loved the practice! It is simple and beautiful! Felt very joyful and ecstatic!! this is a profound practice! I highly recommend it!!

- Debora Brodey
  Butterfly Woman and Sound healer

Course Pricing

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