Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meet MaryAnn Copson
Hello, I’m MaryAnn Copson, – the Founder of Evenstar, Woman As Healer.
Being a lifetime healer of many persuasions – intuitive, teacher, nutritionist, shaman, mystic, herbalist, author, midwife, priestess, eco-therapist, life coach, clergy, mentor, consultant, energy healer, and pastoral counselor- I have partnered with thousands (literally) of women to help them become happier and healthier as they reconnect to who they really are and create the life they long for through an integral approach to life woven from many strands of ancient wisdom and leading edge awareness.
Living, teaching, and working aware of multiple dimensions occurring simultaneously – I have come to recognize that this is our natural state as human beings. We are multi-sensory, multi-dimensional beings living within the matrix of time and space held within the web of life.
My center of operations, The Evenstar Sacred Earth Path Seminary and Mystery School is located on our wooded property in rural Virginia and I maintain a lively online presence. You are invited to make an appointment with me and enjoy my programs, services, and products online and long distance from anywhere.
I offer journeys, adventures, programs, services and products to help you realize the magic inside yourself and to feel centered and grounded within your life, your self, and your health that you wish to design and manifest. These offerings provide safe, natural, and long-lasting transformational strategies, and solutions that improve the quality of your life, deliver results you want, and nourish and revitalize you and your longings that are seeking fulfilllment.
I live in Virginia with my husband of 50 years, David, (who is an Artist, and the Chief Operating Officer of Evenstar). Our five grown children live close by with their spouses and partners, 12 grandchildren, and many dog, cats, chickens, birds, goats, pigs, and a plethora of plants, trees, flowers, and grasses.
My Philosophy and Approach
When I started my company, Evenstar, back in 1986, I was following a vision for creating a place of healing and consciousness shifting. Since then Evenstar has gone through many transformations. Throughout each of these transformations, I have been guided by my heart’s desire to continually merge multidimensional ancient wisdom with the frontiers of consciousness.
I have naturally lived my life through intuitive, mystical, and extra-sensory perceptions. Earlier in my life, I focused on developing my more rational measured self in order to balance my more natural intuitive self. But now, at this mature stage of life, that split has disappeared as I allow my intuitive, empathic, multidimensional self to come center stage and bring an open richness and depth to me, my life, and my work.
From the beginning, Evenstar has been about the multidimensional nature of healing and the journey to the realization of your True Self, living with deep health, wellness, and well-being. As Evenstar grew and evolved and took on different forms, it became less and less about the journey from being sick to being not sick (not to say that is not important – as it certainly is), and more and more about the leap from being just OK to Thriving, Flourishing and the Realization of our Longings.
It was always the ancient wisdom of things unseen that captured my attention. My focus for Evenstar has been to keep it grounded in the art of non-local ancient wisdom and intuition and marry it to the science of true medicine. When I refer to medicine, I am not talking just about conventional medical treatments. Native peoples often refer to medicine as something that gives power and completion to a person. Medicine is that which supports our Wholeness. And this is the definition that I bring to Evenstar.
Evenstar was created as an integrated, multi-layer, multi-facetted place of Creative Transformational Living – a place where you can Cultivate Thriving within many Houses of Healing as you bring your self to fruition as a Woman. In my vision, true creative living engages with living, healing and coming again to know our self from a holographic, integrated, holistic, evolutionary perspective. Woman As Healer takes a multidimensional, multi-level approach to supporting the creative force of your body, mind, and spirit in being centered in the fulfillment of your expansion.
Disease, illness, unhappiness, and un-fulfillment are not really my focus, but rather building resilience and resonant coherence in the body, mind, and spirit. We look to return and maintain these forces in their full functional capacity and move beyond that into thriving and flourishing – along the way disease, illness, unhappiness, and un-fulfillment transform and symptoms of disconnection are resolved.
Now as Evenstar reaches its maturity, it steps into the expansion of fostering the remembrance of the multidimensional capacity of human consciousness. It takes health, wellness and well-being and goes beyond that – reaching deep into the flow of awareness to connect with the journey of the magic of life. It offers woman a place and a way of unfolding your own creative force as women.
And that journey can start no matter where you are.
Taking the Journey of a Woman As Healer is an art and a science. It is a journey into the depths of yourself to retrieve that remembrance of who you really are. When you go to claim that remembrance you pass through the doors of the creative force within yourself.
When we work together, my intent is to hold open the invitation for you to remember and embrace the wholeness of who you really are. When you remember who you really are you will remember that you can bring about the life that you really want -the life that you long for.
While you are in the process of remembering, we work with many beautiful and lively journeys and adventures that support that process of remembering and retrieving and act as bridges to go from separation to wholeness.
For me, the saddest experience is to see dreams die and wither away into hopelessness. And, the most beautiful experience is a woman’s claiming herself and her power to bring her dreams and desires from mere hopes and wishes to manifested reality.
Your dreams, desires, longings are your inspired gifts of your self that are yours to bring into the world and they are your pathway to bringing yourself to fruition – they are your ultimate healer and purpose in life. Your Dreams are your outward expression of your own creative force seeking expression and thriving in the world.
You are Magic and Can Live a Magical Life!
About MaryAnn Copson
MaryAnn has an eclectic complex of training and experiences which enables her to offer a uniquely integral approach to living as the creative force in your life.
Since 2004 she has maintained a private practice as a Personal Life Coach receiving her coaching training as a graduate of CoachU’s three year Life Coaching Program. She also has completed the Simply Effective Coaching training and is a licensed trainer in the following Personal Life Coaching Programs:
In her current Personal Life Coaching Practice, Cultivate Thriving, she leverages many strands of ancient and modern life to aid her clients in crafting a new Life Story using proven strategies, approaches, and tools ranging from interpersonal neurobiology and neural restructuring; to ancient archetypes, shamanic journey work and eco-therapy; to resiliency, strength, appreciative inquiry and conscious aging; all to help clients learn a system that they can apply again and again in their life.
For over 35 years she has worked in the Alternative Medicine Field as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, herbalist, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, lay midwife, brain chemistry profiler, and a Health and Wellness Coach with a comprehensive functional medicine, health and wellness, and energy medicine background.
MaryAnn's strong academic background:
- MA in Psychology and Counseling, Goddard College
- MA in Human Development, University of Chicago
- BA in Psychology, Bucknell University
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In 1987 she started Evenstar Herbs and began doing Wellness and Herbal programs and teaching herbal classes. Over the years she has done more than 10,000 Wellness Nutritional and Herbal Programs.
Her extensive training in the field of Alternative Medicine includes:
Her Functional Medicine Specialty is working with the Biochemistry, NeuroScience, and Functional Physiology correlates of Mood Disorders. For over 10 years she has worked in partnership with the top Functional Medicine Testing Laboratories including:
MaryAnn’s interrelated esoteric and spiritual trainings.
She is the Founder and Director of the Evenstar Earth Path Seminary – Mystery School for Women Shaman Priestess Healers which focuses on nature centered therapy, Shamanic Healing, and contemporized Rites of Passage as well as deep Mystery School initiatory trainings on the path of reclaiming and living ancient Woman Shaman Priestess Traditions.
The touchstone of her spiritual Shamanic work is based on a 12 year traditional apprenticeship with a Cherokee Mystic. In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, she also trained for 3 years with Susun Weed in Shamanic and Wise Woman Herbalism and Goddess work as Susun’s first live out apprentice.
Around the same time, MaryAnn, was initiated into the Seneca Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge by Twylah Nitsch the Clan Grandmother who trained her to draw Seneca Wolf Clan Medicine Wheel Earth Energy Charts. MaryAnn later became a StoneKeeper of the Wolf Clan Lodge.
In addition, she has received the following spiritual trainings:
Woman Shaman Priestess Healer
MaryAnn is a Shaman Priestess Healer of the Sacred Wisdom Herbs and the Rites of the Shaman Priestess Mysteries, having been initiated as such and having reclaimed these ancient works and ways through her inner work with her Council of Nine .
She is an Ordained Clergy and Initiated Dianic DruidCraft Guardian High Priestess and Bandrui of the Apple Branch, a magic initiatory tradition combining the work of Druidism and Witchcraft based on the Old Dianic Tradition and Faerie Faith Tradition with special connections to ancient female Druidism known as Bandrui. She is also an Ordained and Initiated Priestess of the Feminist Dianic Wicca Tradition.
Through the order of Ord Brighideachhe, is a FlameKeeper of the Three Fold Fire of Brighid . She is also a Priestess of the Avalon Tradition through her own inner work and training. She is also holds the Shamaness Status of Hnoss-Horn Volva initiate in Pillar Seidr an Initiatory Path in Norse-based Shamanism for Women.