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LifeBites: A chunk of life on stage

See your problem in a new light.

Find a solution you can practice.

 


PBS- featured author, performer and shaman Maria Mar uses poetry, dance-theatre and shamanic tools to present mirrors of today's current problems and offer easy, do-able solutions. Maria Mar's LifeBites are the encapsulated, modern version of a shamanic healing ceremony in the ancestral communities. Maria embodies the problem and uses movement, voice and poetry to condense it, powerfully moving the audience. Then she embodies the solution, again using art to strike a chord in each person's heart. The audience is encouraged to do a physical, simple activity that serves as a catalyst for change. Freedom, relaxation, a change of perspective, expanded vision, humor and hope are the end results.

 

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30 minutes (1 LifeBite)

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60 minutes (2 LifeBites)

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90 minutes (3 LifeBites)

 

The LifeBites can be presented by themselves, as a speaking engagement or followed by a conversation, a  workshop, or as part of the Poetry Botánica.

 

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Upcoming Presentations

 

Customized LifeBites

 

 

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LifeBites Menu

 

 

Release the Rush!

Release Time-related Stress Response

 

Stress related to time, multi-tasking and the fear-reflex associated with the body's response to stress. Maria Mar used dance-theatre and poetry to offer a mirror of what happens to the body during a stressful respond to time. She engages the audience in recognizing the physical symptoms. She then helps the audience "unwind" with a relaxing, graceful "tiny dance" that relaxes the body, deepens breath and opens the flow of energy. Quick, practical solution to stress offered in a beautiful, artful and ceremonial structure. 30 minutes. Ready Now!

 

This performance is part of a larger performance in the Poetry Botanica.

 

 

Swimming Against the Tide

Stop Struggling. Bloom where you are Planted.

 

You want to move to the house of your dreams and give your children a good education. You need a better health insurance. But how can you even dream of this? You are trapped in a job that doesn't pay you enough and there's no prospect for a promotion or a pay raise. So you are depressed. You live trying to make ends meet. Your life is a struggle and you are always in emergency mode. Stress is threatening to put you out of business, and the family is suffering. Stop! Stop listing all the things you need to get. Stop listing all the things you don't have! Join Maria Mar in an exploration of how to bloom where you are planted. It's the only place to start! 30 minutes. Ready Now!

 

 

The Female Face of Power

Re-defining Power to Engage Female Leadership

 

In this compelling performance, Maria Mar uses dance, theatre and poetry to portray how women often push themselves to use the available patriarchal models of power as control and exclusionary power, resulting in the violation of their own organic Female Power. This is a strongly visual, plastic and visceral presentation of the emotional invisibility women experience in a world that defines power as control and renders them invisible and the amazing power released when a woman re-defines power using her organic nature: relationship, emotions, empathy, connection, environmental receptivity, grace, beauty, collaboration and synergy. 30 minutes. Ready Now!

 

 

Who Stays with the House in the Inner Divorce?
You can't divorce yourself. Save your Inner Marriage!

 

You want to progress and manifest your dream. But the models of leadership and prosperity around you strike you as opportunistic, aggressive or downright unethical. You'd love to be financially independent, but you are the creative or spiritual type. You are not comfortable with money. You give so much, but it's not appreciated by your friends or family, let alone your boss. You do so much, but at the end of the day, you feel it's not enough.  You take so much, and then burst out and feel guilty later. You struggle between what's assertive and what feels violent to you. At the end of the day it seems that you've been shifting from one foot to the other. You're tired of dancing and you feel evicted from yourself. Join Maria Mar in a journey to explore the female Face of Power and the Male Face of Power. This is beyond Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. This is about healing your Inner Divorce and performing your Marriage of Power. Women groups. Co-ed groups. 30 minutes.

 

 

The Inner Wars

The battle of the galaxies is waging inside you.

 

You'd love to sell your book well, but... (fill in the blanks). You'd love to start a business, but... (fill in the blanks.) You'd love to marry or divorce, but... (fill in the blanks). You'd love to start a personal growth journey, but...STOP! If you are trapped in ambivalence and find yourselves wanting two opposite things or believing that you have to sacrifice one thing for the other, you are caught in the frontier between two warring forces inside you. This is called Polarity. Join Maria Mar in examining what forces have been pit against one another inside you, when, how and where they were polarized and how to bring Peace and congruence into your struggling desires. 30 minutes.

 

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Customized LifeBites

If you have an event, conference or workshop, and would like to include one of Maria Mar's LifeBites, but do not find one that is relevant to the topic, contact Maria Mar. It is possible that Maria Mar can prepare the following, customized format for your event.

bullet30 minute LifeBite using Maria Mar's Female Wisdom Principles connected to your topic. *
bulletInteractive experiential activity within your conference or workshop.
bulletHealing and Transformative Ceremony using poetry, dance-theatre and interactivity, as a closure.
bulletCeremonial Poetry Closure.

ALL EVENTS INCLUDE:

  1. 20 minute no-cost preliminary consultation to see if the LifeBite is appropriate for your event.
  2. A pre-production Assessment Teleconference with you, to talk about your topic, values, audience and perspectives.
  3. Participatory Materials fee, when appropriate.
  4. Books and other products for sale or included in cost, if and as appropriate.
  5. Asterisk: For Women only.*

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LifeBites Menu Upcoming Presentations Customized LifeBites Book Maria Mar now.

 

 

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