Woman of the Week Before – Mahara Brenna

Presenting:

Reverend Mahara Brenna

Here’s a little bit about her:

Rev. Mahara Brenna is a Master Rebirther with over 30 years teaching Holistic Rebirthing throughout Canada, U.S.A., Europe and Australia. At the age of 23, Mahara healed a lifetime of epilepsy through this powerful healing modality. She is also a Holistic Health Educator, Couples Mediator, Community Builder, Life-Coach, Performer and International Speaker. She has been dynamically leading community building on campuses and for conferences for the past 25 years. She designs and facilitates special events for the upliftment and unification of our Family of Humankind. Mahara is known as a “Mid-Wife for Souls”, a “Planetary Change-Agent” and has been teaching many workshops such as “The Healed Relationship”, “Living the Course In Miracles”,”The Breath & Self-Mastery”, “The Sacred Marriage”, “The Cosmic Joke”, “Eruption~ Total Self-Expression” and “SHE” The Power of the Divine Feminine, since the 80′s.

As a Priestess, Mahara is often invited to open events with sacred ceremony. As a Registered Minister, Mahara performs specially designed marriages and memorial services. A dancer all her life, Mahara has trained as a NIA Integrated Movement Instructor and leads “Trance Dances” as a Shamanic Trance Dance Facilitator. She also performs as a drummer and percussionist. As an actor, she currently performs with the Radiant Rose Actors Guild. The foundation of her teachings are based on the Ancient and Lost Knowledge of the Ascended Masters, A Course In Miracles and the integration of Psychology, Sirituality and Shamanism. She is proudly one of the founding members of the Akasha Mystery School now the Radiant Rose Academy Inc.

And here’s how she answered my 6 questions about creativity:

What inspires your creativity?

Movement and Breath. The two expressions that have most influenced my life and work in the healing arts and performing arts. Breath gives birth to movement…and movement expands breath…and then everything opens up…the heart, higher mind,vision, rolling down a hill, play, laughter, creative problem solving.

How have you reinvented yourself through your creativity?

By letting my Soul out…by recognizing my infinite and eternal Soul requires many outlets, many forms of expression. It’s as if it pushes out of me, like doors and windows opening outwards from my inner house. “Let me out!, she exclaims. “I want to sing now, I want to belly-dance now. I want to African dance now.”  Whatever she says, I do. I don’t argue with her. I have come to learn that her urgency and fire produces the cauldron that transmutes the denser energies. Peace always awaits on the other side. To not listen would bring slow death.

Based on your response to your creativity, how do you involve others?

When I dance, I mean when I really dance…when I’m plugged into the Cosmos and I can feel the Universe pouring through me and there’s no stopping me…I feel like a tornado whipping up the energies and everyone around me. Sometimes I hear people’s voices around me squealing as the energy builds and builds and builds and I feel as though I’ll never stop. Like when I was in the epicenter of the big earthquake in Guatemala in 1976, and Mother Earth was hollowing and undulating and I lay on her and road her like a dragon serpent.

What is the wildest journey your creativity has taken you on?

I remember a Rebirthing client of mine who did large art installations. She was feeling stuck and uninspired as to her next project and was trying to figure it out with her head. I said to her, “You’re putting the cart before the horse. Move your body, move your energy…the inspiration will come out of that!  What you need is to find a class where you can stretch, dance, move your kundalini, sing, chant, meditate, write and paint…all in one night!  Get your flow flowing and grease those rusty wheels!” “Great. Will you teach it?” And so I did. It was a wild ride for 8 weeks with a full class of 25. The last 1/2 hour was painting with big brushes on huge pieces of paper 3 feet x 7 feet, the music weaving and soaring as people unabashedly slapped on colour with large sweeping strokes. We opened ourselves as pipe conduits for Life to pour through and so much happened to everyone over that 8 weeks….insights, revelations, new workshop ideas, book outlines, architectural designs, renovations, proposals, music, choreography, and yes, the next art installation.

What is your most memorable moment in the act of being creative?

I love those magic moments on stage with fellow actors during a well rehearsed scene. All at once everyone is really present and relaxed and time slows down and so Spirit shows up…and every line is richer and more deliberate and sculpted. And we can feel that we are collectively creating something greater that ourselves….and I’m sure the Light around shines more golden. Creating in community can be heaven on earth.

I also loved when I first realized, that as health is wholistic, creativity is as well. What I mean by that is everything we do creatively impacts or effects every other form of creativity also. When I started drumming it influenced how I danced. Playing percussion helps my singing. As a speaker, I joyfully demonstrate a lot of what I’m saying through body movement. My yoga practice gives me better posture as a drummer. Everything contributes to everything else.

What’s next for you?

A project I’m not ready to talk about yet.  That’s the lesson of containment. Holding the seed in the great silence of the sacred womb. But thanks for asking. Its been fun talking with you.

And here’s something that inspires her creativity:

My latest inspiration came from a young group called Imagine1Day…a flashmob Vancouver style on Robson Street last Saturday afternoon Feb. 13th 2010. We rehearsed over a couple of nights, maybe there were 200 people there each time. When it came to actually “Dancing In the Street” there were thousands of us!!!!

Thank you for letting your soul out with us Mahara!