About Maria

Maria Skinner is a BeSoul™ Dance and Dance Spells™ Founder and an Ageless Grace Brain Health Fitness Trainer & Educator.  She is the founder of Embodied Astrology, bringing somatic awareness to the astrological map and has been in practice for over 30 years.  Maria is the author of Living High Like a Tree and co-authored the Spanish translation of Our Bodies, Ourselves – Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas – and contributed to My Hungry Head by Marybeth Sherrin.

I’ve devoted most of my life to learning to love being in my body. There have been times I’ve wanted out. At some point, I realized that the only time I felt completely happy to be embodied was when I was dancing so I danced and dance a lot! My earliest memories are of being at Playa Hermosa in Uruguay and sensing the warm air on my skin. I was at the beach and the seagrass was between my toes, the waves were crashing, the sun was setting. And I had a wonderful sensation that I was not to have again until I began experiencing orgasms later in life.  At that moment, 3 or 4 years old, I was in my body, I loved all its sensations and I felt truly ALIVE. I was dancing with the earth. What happened between then and the time that I realized I was not in love with being anymore, I am not sure, but the path back to that sensation has been long, delightful, and sometimes painful.  Through my many movement explorations I have regained a connection to my ANIMAL body, my body that is part of the earth and enjoys the pleasures of this planet as such.  Through BeSoul Dance & Dance Spells, I find I am again often living into that amazing erotic experience I had as a child, feeling free and happy in my movement every day and thrilled that I get to share that with others!

As an astrologer, I bring the journey of embodiment to bear to my work. My readings will help you ground and use the things that are already in you and in our life to rise to a higher potential. The patterns that live through you can be here for your unfolding. I can help you hone your map! It will be my pleasure.