Mara Branscombe - RITUAL AS REMEDY

3. Biography Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spiritual coach. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community ceremony since 2000. An adventurous spirit, Mara has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, trekked across the Himalayas, studied yoga in India, planted trees in Canada’s north, lived off the grid in a remote cabin in the woods, worked as a Waldorf (Steiner School) teacher, and then found her passion for dance and choreography. All the while yoga, meditation, mysticism, and ritual have been at the heart of Mara’s journey. Her trainings in the Incan Shaman lineage and the Pagan tradition have greatly inspired her life’s work of earth-based, ceremonial, intentional, and heart-centered living and loving. Mara currently lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and two daughters. 4. Websites: www.marabranscombe.com 6. Facebook: marabranscombe and Instagram: @marabranscombe 9. List of TEN questions or subjects to discuss in an interview: ⦁ What is a Ritual? ⦁ What are some examples of simple rituals for someone new to this path? ⦁ What inspired you to write this book? ⦁ What if the difference between a full moon ritual and a new moon ritual? ⦁ Can you share your background with yoga, meditation, and guiding community ceremony - and how these practices can support healing and transformation? ⦁ Why is this book an essential body of work for our modern times? ⦁ What is one simple ritual you can recommend to begin your day with positivity, openness, and clarity? ⦁ Is there an evening ritual you can share to enhance sleep, release stress, and return to one’s true nature? ⦁ Can you share your process in weaving together the practices, poetry, and prose in this book? ⦁ How does your background as a dance artist, intuitive guide and yoga/meditation teacher influence or inspire your writing? Or the way your work expresses itself? ⦁ In the book, there are many techniques on how to work through excess emotions such as fear, shame, guilt, grief, and low self-esteem. How do you feel rituals alongside soul care practices encourage someone to reclaim wholeness and pursue their life dreams? 10. Where are your books available? Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all good independent bookshops - May 24, 2022 11. Paragraph about your book. Sum it up. An evocative and inspiring guide to ritual as a healing balm for the psyche and soul, Mara Branscombe shares potent self-care and soul-care rituals that awaken freedom, joy, depth of spirit, and wild, untamed self-love. Harnessing the power of imagery and poetry, she shows how ritual can serve to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers. She explains how ritual invokes a unique magic that allows you to step outside of time and experience something beyond the mundane, connecting you to your inner mystic, the unseen realms, the sacred turning points in your life, and the truth of your soul’s calling. 12. Events to promote: Not yet, but happy to do live Instagram’s, online ritual classes, podcasts, etc. 13. Is there any thing else we should know? Can you take callers questions for example? Sure.