In Depth with Mariana Mae
Mariana Mae is an artist, visionary, cultural bridge and healing arts practitioner native to Coyoacan, Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Currently residing in the Chorotega Nation Lands of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Mariana offers her work under the wingspan of Mariana Mae | Earth Medicine Arts, through her newly launched Community Collective, Tierra Viviente and as a contributing facilitator at Niwe Rao Xobo.
Since 2015, she’s created the vehicle of Easy to Breathe to share her Clay Work, Cultural, Educational offerings and series of Programs and Ceremonial Gatherings.
Now expanding with the evolution of time, Mariana has opened her online work once again to offer Earth-based Guidance for those inquiring to traverse and currently walking the Earth Medicine Path.
Mariana’s work is anchored in the core principle of recognizing Ethnicity, Ethics, Expression + Empowerment in our own understanding and acceptance of Self, thus of one another.
The fountain of her work in the world
Begins and Ends with the Holistic Safety that is required to uphold in order to cultivate an environment for Trauma Healing, Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation Work.
Her service is rooted in Traditional Folk + Earth-based Medicine through the Creative, Devotional, Ancestral, Feminine, Healing Arts to reignite the Life force of one’s Health, Voice, Prayer and Purpose in the world.
Mariana’s work highlights our Ancestral, Emotional Wounds as Tools, being in Right Relationship with the Natural World, expressing our Voice through Song and cultivating Creativity in Celebration of the Story we are here on the Earth to tell and the Reclamation work we are here to offer to the coming generations.
The teachings shared by Mariana are informed by Earth-based Wisdom Teachings, Psycho-spiritual Somatic Therapy, Expressive Arts, Women’s Studies, Linguistic Anthropology and Indigenous Education. She humbly acknowledges the vital role of being a Woman with innate gifts ‘dons’ in our society today.
Devoted to her path of Curanderismo, she is a practitioner of the Mexica Piez Dezcalsos tradition of Mexhiko through the guidance of Abuela Chicahuaxochitl, a student of the Amazonian Shipibo tradition through the Lopez-Sanchez lineage of Peru, and a certified End of Life Doula. She carries the medicine of Cacao by way of her Maya Q’iche initiates and teachers, Paola IxTzunun and Gustavo Ik. She has worked and studied with the Q’ero Nation of the High Andes of Peru as well as the Maya Kaqchikel of Guatemala and the Yawanawa of the Brazilian Amazon.
Mariana’s study and work is mostly dedicated to her Shipibo Maestra’s home healing center, Niwe Rao Xobo in Pucallpa Peru, where she facilitates Master Plant Dietas. Currently, she is working to help open a Traditional Shipibo Healing Center with her teachers in Iquitos, Amazon of Peru.
Mariana also serves as a facilitator for Plant Medicine Healing Programs abroad in Mexico, USA and Canada.
Mariana is the founder of MAI KAYA, a collective in alliance with the Shipibo Indigenous Nation of Peru, committed to amplifying the Voice of Cultural Education, Preservation and Exchange. With reverence to the Source of Ancient Wisdom and in Benefit to the Heart Healing of Humanity, MAI KAYA offers a Living Library for Ancestral Knowledge and Wisdom told directly by a Shipibo-Konibo family lineage, as well as accessible and impactful opportunities to receive and reciprocate support.
Since moving to the U.S, Mariana has studied various Art forms as a healing modality for expression. Mariana is passionate about the grammar of animacy. She believes language and communication are far deeper than words, but rather a work of art which carries a message of meaning and purpose. Mariana believes each individual is born with a distinct way of learning and thus a unique way of expressing oneself.
Mariana has been teaching pottery through Art Therapy since 2013, starting at Bitter Root Pottery Studio and Westland School in Los Angeles, CA, and later founding Pottery Workshops for children + adults in her studio in Ojai, CA. In 2017, Mariana began offering a series of Women’s Clay and Cacao Ceremonies, Mujeres de Barro. Since 2020, her work has been available worldwide through Live Online Programs & Immersions,
UNEARTH — A Communion with the Elemental World
CIHUATL CACAO — Study and Prayer Immersion with Cacao
& INHERITANCE — Group Mentorship Program
In facilitating accessible Ceremonial Containers with reverence to the diverse ways of Self Remembrance, Healing, Integration and Leadership, she bridges the Wisdom teachings of Science and Spirit together as One in contribution to restoring Health and Harmony between Human and Land.
Always in humble gratitude to the generously healing & miraculous resources from our true place of origin, our Mother Earth.