Dancing is my passion. I’ve danced from youth to old age. I helped found a swing dance that continues to hold dances more than 30 years later. I’ve been part of the collective holding our local ecstatic dance for decades. I hold Dance Church and other dances in my dance space. But I’ve also lived a professional life dedicated to social change - founding a public interest law firm. After retiring from law, I began to explore personal and social transformation through ritual. When I experienced Biodanza, the various threads of my soul’s journey became clear. It is my dream that New World R&D grows regular practices of ritual and dance in communities everywhere.

Mary is the founder of Walking Our Talk – a non-profit that trains women to participate in and lead women’s circles that nourish individual accomplishment and build community through a culture of trust, connection, and support.

Mary is an ordained inter-spiritual minister and counselor. She is also an Intimacy Coach and educator working with women and couples to lead a more fulfilling life of interpersonal connection. diviningbeauty.com

Mary is also enrolled in the three-year training program to become a Biodanza Facilitator, through École de Biodanza SRT - Montréal et Sud-ouest du Québec near Montreal.

I am committed to creating bridges. I've danced my whole life, discovering conscious dance about twenty years ago. I know the dance as a place where I can experience, and witness, us as divine beings in a mortal existence. Supporting. and spreading, the dance is a way to realize my dream of bridging us all into a different, sustainable, and joyful, way of living. I have worked as an artist and theatrical designer, a scientist, and a statistician. I have held pivotal roles in retreat center management, handled production and promotional work for a national class action law firm, and assisted in the creation of a B2B holistic enterprise integration system. I have led groups and taught classrooms. And I have spent decades searching my soul and learning how to live. This personal and professional work has all been dedicated to a kind of bridging: creating elegant systems to provide support and structure for people, groups and projects looking to bring dreams to manifestation. Bringing myself to New World Ritual & Dance is a great great joy, and I look forward to moving with you soon!