Hello World!
I’m MaryAnn.
I am a Queer Non-binary Trans Genderfull being with a big, multiplitious spirit. I have a wise, giving heart, an open mind, and youthful, vibrant energy!
I teach and coach folks who seek alignment, unity, and joy. My superpowers include finding creative pathways forward, celebrating individuality and connection, and centering consensual communication.
Tenets of My Practice
Consent ~ Transparency ~ Humility ~ Curiosity ~ Accountability ~ Openness ~ Creativity ~ Embracing ~ Self Compassion ~ Tending ~ Imagination ~ Self Trust ~ Realness ~ Resilience ~ Practice ~ Wonder ~ Celebration
The Bottom Line
“Hire me to be a powerful voice for the change that heals, reconciles, forgives, and improves.” ~ Pixie Lighthorse
Given my lived experience, I have a deep understanding of duality, complexity, communicating across realms, and navigating power structures. I have a unique perspective and know how to hold rooted, transformational space.
I love to reimagine, invigorate, and revitalize!
My Roles
Speaker ~ Teacher ~ Coach ~ Artist ~ Bridge ~ Visionary ~ Trans Advocate ~ Spark ~ Guide ~ Maker ~ Explorer ~ Galvanizer ~ Experimenter ~ Bird of Prey & Paradise ~ Warrior ~ Peacemaker ~ Aries Manifestor
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MaryAnn George is a Queer Non-Binary Trans Genderfull being with a big, multiplitious spirt. They have a wise, giving heart, an open mind, and youthful, vibrant energy!
MaryAnn coaches and teaches folks who seek alignment, unity, and joy in their every day. They specialize in communication, intimacy, power dynamics, sexuality, and gender. A sacred galvanizer and great life experimenter, their highest values are integrity, justice, transparency, and connection.
MaryAnn grew up in a large Lebanese family, the third of six children, in St. Louis, MO. Their path has led them from Missouri to San Francisco to Iceland to New York, from milking cows to nannying to graduating top of their class at Parsons to being a coach, artist, and teacher.
They have an eye for the divine and deep understanding of duality and complexity. They are well versed in communicating across realms and navigating inherent power structures. Given their unique perspective, they know how to hold rooted, transformational space for embodied alchemy.
They say, “My practice is founded in uplifting, accepting, and affirming because I truly believe everyone is already capable, complete, and magnificent! We were all born whole. Somewhere along the way we started believing otherwise – stress, fear, and expectations can cloud our knowing. In my work, I invite folks to unravel that, digging to the root, and allowing the magic of their essence to flow freely.”
A Bit More About Me
I am currently pursuing a Love, Sex, and Relationship coaching certification from Layla Martin’s VITA Coaching Program. Expected completion: Fall 2021.
In my heart of hearts, I am a rainbow child from the Stars and of the Earth. An alchemist, a connecting spirit, a cosmic experimenter, and a wild galvanizer. I am a vocal advocate and a warrior for peace and prosperity. I love to reimagine, invigorate, and revitalize! In teaching and coaching, I find a generative space to do just that.
My superpowers include…
~ Wild creativity
~ Having a hawk’s eye view ~ holding wider perspective
~ Translating and bridging ~ finding common ground
~ Communicating in metaphors & symbols
~ Reframing and finding access points
~ Making and creating connections
~ Holding ~ space, hope, and multiple truths at once
~ Galvanizing ~ bringing in that bright, solar energy that excites action
~ Telling hard truths tenderly
~ Experimenting and practicing
~ Contagious enthusiasm
~ Dreaming of future possibilities
~ Voicing from a place of integrity
~ CELEBRATING!
I love to work with folks who…
~ Shapeshift, evolve, practice, and experiment.
~ Are curious, excited, playful or want to be.
~ Are dedicated, interested in tending, committed to growth and prosperity.
~ Want to find more creative ways of living and connecting.
~ Lead with love, courage, and integrity.
~ Are interested in healing their lineages, in all directions.
~ Have tried many modalities and practices.
~ Are Queer, are fluid, are trying to create their own way.
~ Are creative af!
~ Love and practice ritual.
The future I dream of is…
~ Equitable and just.
~ Circular and interconnected.
~ Gender Open and Gender Full!
~ Queer and so fluid.
~ Close to nature, honoring and apart of ecosystems.
~ Aware of consequences and striving for integrity.
~ Rooted in our divinity and deeper knowing.
~ Full of possibility and community care!
~ Creative, joyful, more embracing.
~ Possible.
So far in my life, I am so proud of…
Trans People Are Sacred Billboard
In 2020, my artwork was featured on a billboard in my hometown of St. Louis, MO as part of a project by Jonah Welch and Save Art Space. This piece is a triptych collage featuring three different images of me and proudly states “Trans People Are Sacred ~ Trans Magick is Real.”
Being a part of this project was an absolute honor. Trans and Non-Binary magic and divinity is something I believe in so deeply, as is representation. Growing up I had so few positive images of Gender Blessed folks.
My gender identity is an integral part of me. It touches everything I am and everything I do. It resides in my divine, eternal spirit. Swirled together, inseparable. It felt exhilarating to celebrate that in such a big, public way.
Being an Engaged Family Member
My family was my first community. The place where I began learning about right relationship, connection, uplifting, and caregiving. I have five very distinct siblings and a large extended family ~ my mom has 16 siblings, my dad has eight, and then there are so many cousins and other relatives.
One of the biggest challenges of my life has been living my truth and exploring my identity while respecting my family. I strive to be a present sibling, child, aunt/uncle (still haven’t found the right gender-open language for this role), cousin, and grandchild in ways that honor my self, my boundaries, my beliefs, and my family. Celebrating my ancestors, both living and passed, is an integral part of this practice and an endless source of love and support.
My Adventures in Iceland
When I was 19, I went to Iceland on a whim. After some weeks exploring and hitchhiking around the island, I ended up working on a farm in South Iceland. There I milked cows, built fences, and assisted with lambing season. The language, the culture, and the landscape captured my heart.
When I returned to the United States, I went to UW Madison to study Icelandic. At the time, it was the only college in the US that offered it. Soon after I moved to Reykjavik, Iceland to attend the University of Iceland and continue studying Icelandic Language. While I no longer live in Iceland, I treasure the years I spent there and still feel a strong connection to the island. Studying and speaking Icelandic is a true joy for me.
My Qualifications
Lifelong Learner
It feels really important to say that I have done formal training, and that training was fundamentally flawed and even harmful at times. Like many formal trainings, it is founded in white supremacy with transphobia and homophobia very present. This experience really invited me to trust my own rooted knowing and see how incredibly valuable my lived experiences are.
So while I have received formal coaching training through Layla Martin’s intensive year long VITA Coaching Program, much of my learning has been through taking other classes, enjoying workshops, and seeing one on one practitioners. Learning about and experiencing different modalities, styles, and practices has really informed how I show up as a practitioner.
Even my time working as a server in New York was a bountiful time full of applicable lessons. Interacting with hundreds of guests every night at cocktail bars and farm to table restaurants was invaluable practice in reading a room, anticipating needs, and learning when to take charge and when to step back.
Formal training is valuable, but by no means a full education. What I have gained through lived experience and continue to learn everyday is what influences my work most.
Pro Domme Experience
My experience as a Pro Domme (or Dominatrix) was a masterclass in how to meet folks where they are. The art of domination is about conscious power dynamics, embodied play, focused energy, understanding incentive and desire. It is also about creating consent, clear communication, and creative pathways through unknown, sometimes scary space.
Dominating requires a lot of focused attention as well as adept flexibility. The key for me is to be connected and attuned to my submissive/playmate. To create an energetic connection between us so that the exchange flows with ease and understanding. Syncing up with each other so we could move and play together, improvising as we go. Coaching is quite similar.
My time as a Pro Domme informs my coaching on so many levels. It’s where I mastered creating spaciousness, mono-tasking, practicing non-judgement, reading body language, and tuning into desires, especially when those desires are uncomfortable or feel alarming to the nervous system.
I am proud to say I am a kink aware, BDSM informed, SWer friendly practitioner. As a kinkster myself, I know how hard it can be to find folks who really understand the ins and outs.
Art-making & Design Education
My formal education is in fine arts and communication design. I attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Parsons School of Design. I studied printmaking, bookmaking, embroidery, typography, illustration, photography, paper-making, performance art, and all types of design including publication, UX, and UI.
The practices from art-making and design often come into play in my coaching sessions. This is where my love of experimentation and vivid visuals comes from. My excitement about symbols, poetry, concepts, my ability to see future outcomes and my dedication to flow and process. These are all things I developed and practiced in the studio.
Creativity is a way of life. I believe we are all creative beings. It can be seen in how we put words together, create an image, set a table, or move through a meditation. It’s so present.
My Own Spiritual Practice
I am committed to exploration, to ritual, to my own inner wisdom and knowing. A student of the divine, I have been fascinated by ceremony and magic since I can remember. While I am no longer religious, my Catholic upbringing introduced me to sacrament, sacred symbolism, and parables. It instilled in me a real awe at the mystery of the Spirit realm and the power of the Divine.
I have a rich spiritual practice that involves meditation, breathwork, embroidery, art making, and sound making. I feel very connected to my well, bright Ancestors, beloved Transcestors, blessed Transcendants, and guiding Spirits. With their guidance, I explore astral realms, internal landscapes, and parallel Universes.
It is through these channels that I have come to know and value my shapeshifting ability. It is a gift and in service to my purpose here on Earth. Which is to act as a bridge, a leader, a student, a peer, a warrior, a sacred galvanizer, and great life experimenter.
See What Others Have to Say ~
“MaryAnn is open supportive and so so loving, a sacred spark and ocean of intuition. They offer such pwrful witnessing, encouragement, and reflection.” ~ lou
“MaryAnn has an exceptional capacity to meet the entire me with integrity, warmth, and compassion. […] One of their most unique gifts, is their ability to champion the parts of me that I underestimate, stigmatize, or hide.
I love their playful approach. I love their ability to spot and savor richness. I love that they extend respect inward and outward at the same time... radiating appreciation and self-worth. I love the wild universe of their quick mind.” ~ Brooke Herr
“MaryAnn is an insightful, compassionate truth teller and wise companion to those creating their own path as they walk it. They hold what’s true for me without judgment or fixing while challenging me to see potential pitfalls and possibilities outside my limited view. I consistently emerge from our conversations feeling reoriented, grounded and inspired.” ~ Kathy Bresler
“MaryAnn is a pioneer in what they do. It is through MaryAnn that I deepened my own coaching practice to be holistically inclusive in my space holding, in my language, in my energy and in my heart. MaryAnn has a commanding energy and indeed is a force, guided by their ancestors, spirit guides and other beings of ether. You know you are in the presence of a person who was sent to change the broken bits of our society when you work with MaryAnn.” ~ Chloe Adriana
