about mayra
Throughout my career I've worn many hats and worked in a number of fields including restaurant and retail operations, banking, financial services, project management, public relations, community health, higher education, and publishing.
All of this, (and more!), led me to become a health educator who specializes in mental, emotional, and spiritual health education and promotion. I am also a writer and publisher in these subjects.
How I got here is not that unusual. Life and burning curiosity actually led me.
In 1998, I left a wonderful career in the financial services sector to pursue advanced degrees in community counseling and community health education because these fields of study felt like what I sorta wanted to do.
In 1999 I became a mother (at age 34, and then again at age 37). In 2006, I became a parent-caregiver to my first-born daughter, Serena, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis that year. I mention these 3 dates and events because together, they deeply informed me, as well as weaved a profound yet non-conceptual understanding of life.
The culmination of most of my professional work to date is found in the pages of this website. Because health and well-being is directly impacted by a number of external forces, some of my work delves into gaining a deeper understanding of these:
- media, marketing, and advertising
- money & economics
- policy, law and our justice system
However, my passion and expertise is concentrated in these areas:
- applied mindfulness & inquiry methods
- non-conceptual knowing
- emotional intelligence
- spiritual health education
Being born and raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico made me keenly aware of race, culture, and language. I am bi-lingual and multi-cultural. As I've grown in my own self-awareness, I've come to realize that I'm an empath and someone with a neuro-divergent brain. In many ways these have been my greatest kryptonite, but also, and most importantly, my greatest superpowers.
My evolving work in health education, coupled with my personal journey through grief, led me to the field of sound, vibration, and light modalities.
Currently, I'm studying and learning new things in what I call 'health harmonics', which aims to support our understanding of these areas:
- light and sound for well-being
- personal energy literacy
- personal energy management
- the human biofield and its impact on our body's systems
- expanding human consciousness
- development of new technologies (non-medical biotech)
May you 'stay centered and groovy' as we navigate these transitional times for humanity. I hope some of these resources can be of assistance in your journey and work. If you have specific questions or need individual assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.
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