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Maria Mar Corazón Tierra Tanya Torres
Creator of The Poetry Botánicaä Co-creator of The Poetry Botánicaä Associate Artist and Member of our Advisory Board.
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The Poetry Botánicaä

The Poetry Botánicaä is a project dedicated to creating art that heals and transforms the self and the community. A creation of Maria Mar with Corazon Tierra, The Poetry Botánicaä brings together poets, performers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, healers and shamans who want to promote healing and evolution in humanity through the arts.

The concept of the popular botánicas, with their syncretic, colorful mixture of physical and spiritual remedies is brought back to life by artist-shaman Maria Mar. It is adapted to present art, metaphor, love and creativity as the essentially healing and transformative ingredients in personal and collective life and consciousness.

 

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 Maria Mar

The Dream Alchemist

PBS-featured artist-shaman María Mar integrates writing, visual art and performance to create interactive art experiences that have an immediate, powerful impact in peoples' lives. She specializes in personal growth and women's empowerment through the arts and is an internationally known spiritual teacher. As an artist, Maria is a performer, writer, visual artist and storyteller with more than 20 years of professional experience.

 

Women's Leadership and Fulfillment

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Her wise counsel, with tools and insights for women's lives, has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including the Spanish-language radio segment for women in Arizona, Cuerpo y Alma de Mujer, her monthly column at Alumbo! the self-help supersite, as well as her Dream Express online magazine and the Dream Express blog.

 

Ms. Mar has worked with more than 70 organizations in the USA and abroad and has received funding from Sister Fund, Con Edison, Chase Manhattan Bank, United Ways, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Catholic Charities, North Star Funds and New York State Council on the Arts, among others,  for her dedicated work using art to empower women, reduce family violence and help disadvantaged communities.

 

She has been featured in profiles and appearances in New York/Newsday, WKCR, WBAI, WADO, Daily News, BronxNet and other printed, radio and TV media. Maria also contributes frequently to women's magazines. Maria Mar's healing voice is one of her Medicines, bringing peace and insights into any encounter. You can hear her at the Dream Alchemist Radio Show for inspirational wisdom on living the life of your dreams. Humor, compassion and piercing honesty are her trademarks. She offers Spirit with Spice!

 

Published by University of Arizona Press. Click for credits and contact address.

Maria Mar's live performances, featured in PBS, Channel 13, are community ceremonies where the spectators become SpectActors in ceremonies of healing, transformation and empowerment. This art methodology was featured in Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology, published by The University of Arizona Press in 2000.

 

Maria's passion is to empower women emotionally, spiritually, socially and creatively. To achieve this, she uses interactive performances, lecture-performances and arts & crafts to guide women into transforming their own lives into masterful works of art. She offers women several life coaching solutions, building a step-by-step approach to releasing self-sabotage and manifesting your dreams, healing issues with creativity, success and power. Maria specializes in helping you break through the limitations that keep creativity, spirituality and prosperity in different compartments, and in women's issues with creativity, passion, power, success and money. She offers a path to success with soul!

 

As a specialist in arts for personal growth, Maria Mar has worked with more than 70 organizations in the USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico and South Africa. Maria Mar was the artistic and executive director of a non-profit, Ecuelecuá Interarts, for six years. In this capacity, she networked with women's organizations and service organizations, to bring her performances to their clients, creating empowerment workshops and interactive art events to help them explore alternative lifestyles, prevention of social problems and other relevant issues. In the past decade Maria Mar created, with Corazon Tierra, a Latina-owned business, ShamansDance Publishing and Productions. The Poetry Botánicaä is a program of ShamansDance.

 

Maria Mar has developed several female-wisdom based systems to help women in their self-empowerment, spiritual evolution and success. These are:

 

 

Catch the Dream Expressä

In Catch the Dream Express, Maria Mar guides women through an alchemical journey to manifest their dreams and release the obstacles that stand between you and your potential. She also offers a membership for women who want to create the life of their dreams. The Dream Express Membership is a ride through your fears into your dream, with the ebook and workbook at the center. Through arts and crafts you apply and quicken the power of the Laws of Attraction, Manifestation and Alignment.

 

Visit http://www.catchthedreamexpress.com

 

Write to Dreamä

Maria Mar created the Write to Dreamä System as a creative writing system that helps women write effortlessly and quickly while developing the discipline for writing or self-transformation. Write to Dreamä offers several coaching programs that helps a woman write her expert book to position herself as an expert in her field. Maria Mar also offers private coaching for self-development to women who want to use writing in order to create the life of their dreams, but need to develop self-discipline or release self-sabotage.

 

Visit http://www.writetodream.com

 

 

The Bewomaning Experienceä

At the core of all the female-wisdom systems, Bewomaning stands as an Act of Power: the Act of becoming a woman on your own terms.

 

Through the Bewomaning Experienceä, Maria Mar helps women free their Female Powers and become the protagonists of their own life. Intense self-knowledge is offered through the Female Power Archetypes and alchemical formulas to transmute pain into power. Bewomaning helps women take time and space for themselves in their own lives and to bring their Female and Male aspects into balance to be effective in the world.

 

http://www.bewomaning.com

Coming Soon!

 

FlightDream Systemä

This easy to understand systems reveals the most crippling self-sabotage MOs in women and helps women to transmute them into Emotional Streams of Affluence. Maria mar uses Fairy Tales and other Female Archetypes to help women free themselves from ineffective life patterns.

 

http://www.flightdreamsystem.com

Coming Soon!

 

 

Hunt Down
the Inner Enemies of your Successä

Train as a Shadow Huntress. Track down the Inner Enemies of your Success and re-cast them as allies to your dream. This system helps people understand how their defensive strategies and sub-personalities are created, how they are governed by False Beliefs unknown to them consciously, and how to free themselves from all those patterns to assume their Personal Power. (This system is included in many offers at Maria's different websites and programs.)

 

 

As a shaman, Maria Mar is a Woman of Power. This means that she has transformed her pain into power, her emotional wounds into her Personal Medicine. She has trained for 14 intensive years in a full-time path to reclaim Female Wisdom. She has reclaimed the power of art as a ritual for individual and community transformation. Maria Mar walks her talk. Each book, digital product, performance or program she creates comes out of her own journey to freedom. She has worked, healed and addressed thousands of women in the USA, South Africa, Mexico and other countries.

 

Maria Mar as a speaker

 

For more information, visit:

 

For spiritual guidance and dream manifestation:

http://www.catchthedreamexpress.com

 

For book writing or writing to heal:

http://www.writetodream.com

 

About Corazon Tierra

About Tanya Torres

For Presenters

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corazón

Corazon Tierra

 

 

Corazón Tierra is a Puerto Rican performer, bailaora, writer, poet, editor and an expert in helping women live happily in their bodies. For more than 15 years, Corazon has been integrating dance, poetry, theater and live music in performances that bring to the audience a healing experience. Audiences in the United States, South Africa and Spain have experienced these interdisciplinary creations.

Corazon has presented her work in diverse venues internationally; from alternative spaces in New York City such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, Performance Space 122 and Movement Research to women’s festivals and high schools in Spain. She also presented her work in the townships of South Africa, under the sky in the Karoo desert and at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in Puerto Rico.

 

In the last 12 years, Corazon has created four dance-theatre performances that reveal the inner world and the perceptions of girls, young girls and women. She has presented these performances in colleges such as Penn State University, Touro College and Hunter College. Her performance piece about her experience of healing from anorexia, Goddess/dam Body (CuerpOdiosa), was featured on television in Seville, Spain in 2002.

 

Corazón has written extensively about her experience of healing from anorexia, publishing articles in magazines such as Latina Magazine and Siempre Mujer.

 

She is now writing her book Casi Desaparecida: Retorno al Territorio de mi Cuerpo (Almost Disappearing: Reclaiming the Territory of my Body). This magical autobiography depicts her journey from an anorexic girl to a woman who reclaims the power of her heart. A fragment of this book was included in Ana y su anorexia: Más allá de no comer, an anthology about anorexia (Editorial La Biblioteca 2005).

 

Corazon is passionate about helping women who want to free themselves from body stereotypes and limiting beliefs about power. Through her writings, dance-poetry ceremonies, workshops and her Beloved BodySoul teachings, Corazon helps women to tap into their grace so they can free their authentic beauty and power

 

Corazon is the co-founder of ShamansDance Publishing and Productions, a Latina-owned company dedicated to helping people transform their pain into power through the arts. She is also the health and food editor for Siempre Mujer magazine, a national magazine in Spanish that reaches about 375,000 Hispanic women.

 

For more information, visit http://www.belovedbodysoul.com or in Spanish http://www.notehagaspquena.com

 

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About Corazon Tierra

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Tanya

Tanya Torres

Tanya Torres was born in New York City and spent her childhood in Puerto Rico, moving back to New York City at age 15. She graduated from the City College of New York with a B.A. in Art Education, and an M.F.A. in Printmaking. Her artwork and poetry have been presented at the United Nations Organization, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library, the Museum of the 19th Century Dominican Family in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the Tenement Museum and the Porta Coeli Museum of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, among other venues. In 2002, she was selected as one of the 50 Women of the Year by El Diario/La Prensa.

For more information, visit:

Website: www.tanyatorres.com
Thoughts: http://hoy-artista.blogspot.com/
A little more formal stuff:
http://tanyatorres.blogspot.com/

 

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About Corazon Tierra

About Tanya Torres

About ShamansDance

 

ShamansDance

 

ShamansDance uncovers the alchemical power of art to transmute your pain into power. We fuse the power of books, personal growth tools and the arts to help you fly into your dream! Through art we help you find a path to your power that responds to the Female Way of Knowing.

 

Enjoy our Creative collections, where we integrate art performances, interactive events, workshops, books and products to enrich the lives of:
 
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Women and their families- The Bewomaning Collection, by Maria Mar, helps women become the protagonists in their own life and life fully and joyfully, flying towards their dream. In this collection, Maria Mar offers the Catch the Dream Expressä programs, the Write to Dreamä Programs, the FlightDream Systemä and the Bewomaning Experienceä.
 

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Young girls and women- The Beloved BodySoul Collection, by Corazon Tierra, helps women live joyfully in their bodies. In this collection, Corazon offers the Beloved BodySoul programs and the No te hagas Pequeña programs.
 

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Finally, ShamansDance offers you the Poetry Botánicaä, with online and live events that bring art as a healing tool for women, families, Latinos and multicultural audiences.

 

ShamansDance empowers you to use art as an alchemy to transform your life. Our art is interactive and relevant to life. It transforms you from a spectator into a SpectActor.

 

ShamansDance is a woman-owned and Latino-owned business. Founders María Mar and Corazón Tierra are two professional artists with more than 40 years of combined experience in theatre, dance theatre, visual arts and professional writing, both in the fiction and non-fiction genre. They are also experts in the field of personal growth through the arts.

 

María Mar and Corazón Tierra underwent a 12-year training as contemporary shamans using the arts to achieve personal freedom. During this training they developed unique systems and philosophies that are the trademark of ShamansDance. These artists-shamans integrate their spiritual knowledge and personal power tools into our beautiful performances, inspiring books and empowering internet products to help you reach you full potential and live creatively.

 

Like the shamans of old, María Mar and Corazón Tierra dance and enact stories that take you into a magical quest for your hidden talents, lost dreams and personal power. In our performances, the audience becomes a community coming together to rise above their individual limitations in an empowerment ceremony of art, personal growth and inspiration.

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