Maggie’s commitment and leadership took me past my resistance into a deep experience.”
--Workshop participant
Maggie Ostara is a healer’s healer.”Maggie Ostara is a certified Clarity Breathwork practitioner and trainer, a qualified Awakening Your Light Body teacher, former women’s studies professor, mother, avid dancer, and healthy living advocate. She dedicates herself to supporting herself and others to feel enlivened and to make meaningful contributions that benefit all beings. She loves to teach, breathe, move, laugh, meditate, sing, read, write, be in nature, and commune with gemstones.
--Jeri Lawson, energetic healer, Reiki Master
A few biographical highlights:
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As an undergraduate she fell in love with dance, but decided instead to get a PhD and pursue a career as a professor. As Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University, she mentored rebellious young women and men, and published numerous articles and a book on African American women’s writing, US National Identity, and resistance to slavery.
In 1997 she discovered spirituality and metaphysics, left academe, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. There she reconnected with dance through the Bay Area’s barefoot, freeform dance community, at Dance Jam and the Northern California Dance Collective’s (NCDC) dance camps.
At the age of 42 she gave birth to a radiant daughter, Emma, who has always been her greatest teacher. She currently lives with Emma, and her beloved (Emma’s dad), DJ Geej Mauriva, in Oakland, CA.
The thing that Maggie does as a healer is that she is both very spiritual with access to guides and angels, as well as rather sharp and intellectual. So her insights on a gut level are given voice in a precise, muscular way that is very user-friendly but never simplistic. Then there's the Earth thing: the way she speaks about nature is very simple and seems to assume our connection to her and to a cosmic order. All this (and more) in one person is rare in my experience.”Her post-academic studies have included:
--E.K., Artist, Berkeley
- Two years professional training in Healing with Whole Foods at what is now the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City
- Prosperity and manifesting courses with Bob Proctor
- Private studies in shamanic practices, including work with guides and journeying
- Professional training to become a Clarity Breathwork practitioner, extensive session work to become certified, and co-facilitating numerous workshops to become a Clarity Breathwork trainer
- The teachings of Orin and DaBen, channeled by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, including Awakening Your Light Body basic and teachers’ course; graduate courses in Being Your Authentic Self, Divine Manifesting, Self-Exciting, Frequencies, and Light Body Consciousness; and Becoming a World Server, Creating Money, and Advanced Manifesting and Magnetizing,
Body Tales®, Contact Improvisation, and Continuum Movement - Working with our mineral allies—gemstones with metaphysical qualities
- Compassionate Communication, aka Non-Violent Communication
In 2004 Maggie took the name Ostara, the goddess who presides over the Spring Equinox and who represents new life, growth, fertility, initiative, increasing light and abundance. Early Christians recast the various forms of her name (Estarte, Oester) as Easter, representing resurrection and new life.
Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.”
--Robert Plant
Selected bibliography, academic titles published
under the name Maggie Sale, PhD
The Slumbering Volcano: US National Identity and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity. Duke University Press, 1996.
“To Make the Past Useful: Frederick Douglass’s Politics of Solidarity.” Arizona Quarterly 52 (1995): 25-60.
“Call and Response as Critical Method: African-American Oral Traditions and Beloved.” African American Review 26 (1992): 41-50.
“Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance.” American Literature 64 (1992): 695-718.
© 2007 Maggie Ostara PhD, www.soullevel.net