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Participants

These circles are for anyone that wishes to gather in
community to practice Sacred Celebration!

Sometimes I offer Celebration Circles for Trans and Non-Binary community members only. I will always state that clearly and if you have any questions about that, please reach out ma.george.co@gmail.com ~ Thank you.

Price

Pay What You Desire ~ Recommended Rate $11-36

Please pay what lights you up! You are welcome to join no matter what you pay.

What are Celebration Circles?

Celebration Circles are gatherings where we celebrate in community!

They start with a guided meditation to ground and come together as a group. We arrive and step into a celebratory space where we are held and protected by our guiding spirits and well, bright ancestors. From there we share ~ we take turns celebrating ourselves, our lives, the highs and lows, our resiliency, our brilliance! As each person speaks, we as a group listen and then celebrate with them freely and vocally. After plenty of celebration, we close our circle by joining together again in a moment of guided meditation and grounding.

I am thrilled to offer these circles because celebration has been a profound life changing practice for me and I love gathering to celebrate in community! The thing I love the most about celebration is that it doesn’t try to erase or color over the tough stuff. It’s not toxic positivity. In celebration, everything is welcome. It’s a practice of embracing.

Why Celebrate?

Celebration is empowering! It’s a practice of claiming our agency to notice, to lean in, to find the pieces and parts WE want to savor. It’s joyous, it’s something you can do anytime anywhere! It can be a noise, an exhale, a twirl, a prayer, a moment of glee.

It can also be a party! A ceremony, a whole community engaging together to rejoice, to consecrate, to commemorate. Celebrating is REVOLUTIONARY! It is timeless and liberating! It can be all encompassing. It can be as small and fleeting or as large and wild as we want! Either way, it is a fantastic way to practice agency, presence, and self tending.

Celebration has taught me these things we label as good and bad can exist side by side. Celebration says life is both/and. Celebration and ceremony can encompass it all! They are big enough and powerful enough to hold whatever is happening.

Celebration is a practice of noticing, of highlighting, calling to attention. It’s taught me that no matter what’s happening, there are glimmers of magic, of hope, of humanity. So come celebrate with me in a sacred circle! Celebrate your accomplishments, your life, your triumphs, your trials. Celebrate waking up, breathing deep, soaking up the sunshine even for 5 min. Celebrate your survival. Celebrate your desire for change, for more, for pleasure in a world that says forget pleasure.

When I look ~ and when I allow myself to look ~ I find that there is so much to celebrate!

These circles are…

~ A place of courage, openness, and embracing.
~ An invitation into presence and agency.
~ A sacred ceremony, rooted in magic and prayer.
~ For anyone who wants to join.
~ A labor of love.
~ Born out of my genuine desire to practice celebrating in community.
~ A place where curiosity and vulnerability are encouraged.
~ Designed with a “rising tides raise all boats” mentality.

These circles are NOT…

~ About comparing or competing.
~ Intended to guilt or shame.
~ A place to get political, argumentative, or combative.
~ Designed to give advice or input.
~ A place of judgement.

What are my qualifications?

~ I am a Royal Cosmic Celebrator Extraordinaire!
~ Experience holding space for and teaching the sacred practice of Celebration
~ Many, many hours of leading guided meditations and creating circles
~ Contagious enthusiasm is one of my most potent qualities
~ I practice Celebrating daily, solo and in community
~ I have studied Celebration in depth through ritual

See what others have to say ~

“MaryAnn is exactly the prismatic being you want to guide you through igniting the colors of your inner landscape. They bring the rainbow forward in every sense of their own embodiment, and you cannot help but trust and lean into their gentle but potent invitations to explore your own rooted life force.” — Virginia

“[MaryAnn is] both a sparkly rainbow explosion and an endless ocean on a dark night. as deep, intuitive, restful n slow as they can be ecstatic and electrifying ~ a sacred spark with the power to light a thousand stars. MaryAnn is a person of many paths with a dedication to joy and radical deep luv. they live into their truth boldly and hold a torch for other's freedom with their very existence.” — lou

“MaryAnn is a pioneer in what they do. […] 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

Recommended Resources

~ TED Talk by Ingrid Fetell Lee on Where Joy Hides & How to Find It
~ Celebrating the Everyday

Final Thoughts

Celebrating doesn’t ignore or erase all that is wrong or unjust in this world. It fortifies us as we face it. It feeds and nourishes us when we need it most. It roots us in a practice of presence and community, which gives us strength.

It helps us keep our fires lit and tended to. It reminds us of our lineages and birthrights. It brings us back to who we are at our core when so much is trying to get us to forget.

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These circles are mighty, revolutionary, a gift ~ created with the intention to notice, name, amplify, and be joyous! The practice of celebration may be simple but wow, it is a magical, surprisingly potent act.

Time bends, selves multiply, bright Ancestors join, portals open and beckon us.

There are rainbow roller coasters, waterfalls, future and little selves, caves, adornment, fresh grass, the Cosmic blanket wrapping around us as we take part in this ancient tradition.

There is so much Queer Joy ~ so much Community Joy.

Life expands and the future seems so close we can taste it. The feast is rich and hearty. We eat slow and fast, feeding each other at times, eating with our fingers. Laughing and tearing up. Twirling. Cheering, whispering encouragement. Actually howling.

So many beautiful hand movements and grounding objects held close as we soar through the cosmic portals, bending time and space to join choirs of ancestors rejoicing.

Joy is our birthright.

Celebration is a revolutionary practice of remembering, being present, and exercising our agency. We get to make noise, use our voices. We get to have joy and celebrate!

We get to gather and support one another.

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