Retreats & Events
Creating inspiring experiences centered in connection, community, creativity and healing
Upcoming Retreats & Events
Maya Moon Retreats & Evolving Stardust Events presents
Meet Our Facilitators
Ilse
Ilse is a Psychotherapist born and raised in Costa Rica. Her style of work is based on Eastern Yoga Psychology, the Body Psychotherapy, and Yoga Asanas. During sessions she invites clients to learn about the philosophy of the Yamas and Niyamas. She considers herself a holistic clinical psychotherapist. Her speciality as psychotherapist is the treatment of chronic stress, trauma, anxiety and grief. Individual and group Embodiment sessions are supported with gentleness and a compassionate heart.
In 2001, Ilse immigrated to the USA from Costa Rica. Her journey was supported by a wonderful community in the USA. Her counseling sessions are sustained in an environment of cultural diversity, in this interception of two worlds, she found the power of acceptance, tolerance, gentleness and love for all beings. Beside individual therapy, Ilse created a Roses Women's circle that supports women in the Capital Region of New York. She strongly considers Mother Earth (Pachamama) a great source of healing.
Ilse is a fully certified Somatic Psychotherapist, Mindfulness therapist, EMDR certified, Energy work with a Reiki Master at Kripalu, Shamanism and Somatic Energy with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, PHD and Marcela Lobos. Ilse believes we are all light, emotions are light and our bodys enclose the light. The magic of creating presence in a felt/sense will bring you back to your authentic self.
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Kate
Kate Maranville-Hiser is a multi-modality practitioner and ceremonialist offering a unique blend of services. Her expertise includes Usui Reiki, Sound Healing, Akashic Record readings, Cacao Ceremonies, Kambo Ceremonies, Folk Herbalism, and Conscious Micro-dosing. As an event coordinator, Kate also specializes in creating transformative experiences through retreats, ceremonies, and music and wellness festivals.
Kate is driven by a heartfelt passion to empower others on their unique healing journeys, sharing the transformative tools and wisdom she's gathered along her own path. Guided by compassion, intuition, and a profound reverence for the natural world."
Valerie
Valerie Sami Porras was born in 1982 in Montreal Canada, to a Costa Rican mother and Egyptian father, she has been residing in Costa Rica since 2009. She is a Psychologist, Medicine woman, Moon and Sun dancer, and has received for her work the guidance and blessing from medicine people working ancestral rituals and ceremonies from the north and south. She has been a yagesera (working with yage the Colombian version of Ayahuasca) for about a decade now, with the permission and blessing of a taita from the Inga tribe of the Putumayo (Colombian Amazon). She also leads certain ceremonies such as the Temazcal (sweat lodge), work with the sacred feminine, women's circles, and incorporates into this work some other sacred plant medicines as well.