About
You do not have to become someone new.
I am Mary. I help people remember who they have always been, underneath the striving.
Mary Le Gassick · Divine Mother Priestess
Who I am
I guide people home to themselves.
I believe there is a place within each of us that our striving never touched. A place that has always been whole. Much of my own path has been about finding my way back to that place.
I am a Priestess of Divine Mother. I believe our humanity is not something to transcend but something to enter more fully. The shadow belongs. The body carries wisdom. Our most difficult parts hold medicine. And we can meet ourselves with both fierce honesty and deep compassion.
This is the foundation of how I live and how I guide others.
You are not a problem
to be solved.
The approach
A different kind of transformation.
True change begins when you stop meeting yourself as a problem to solve.
Many of us spend years trying to fix ourselves. Growth is a beautiful part of being human. But there is a difference between growing and waging a quiet war on yourself.
My approach bridges psychological inquiry with embodied spiritual practice. Insight alone is not enough. What we understand in the mind must be experienced and integrated through the body before it can become something we truly live.
Through shadow work, self-inquiry, embodiment and sacred practice, we meet what has been rejected or judged with both truth and compassion. These parts are not obstacles to overcome. They are part of the way home.
The path that brought me here
Ninety minutes, and the weight moves.
It began as a physical practice. It became a devotion.
I
walked into my first yoga studio for my body. I stayed for what was happening underneath it. I did not have language for it then. I only knew that for one hour,
walked into my first yoga studio for my body. I stayed for what was happening
in room full of strangers, I was not at war with myself, and I wanted to know how to make that last.
It took a long time. For years I drank, and for years I told myself a story about why that was fine. When I finally stopped, what came next was not a program of self improvement. It was the far more uncomfortable work of learning how to stay with myself without leaving. That is where this practice actually begins. It is also why I tend to recognize the story someone is telling themselves before they do. I told most of those stories first, and I know how convincing they are from the inside.
I taught yoga for five years, which is how I learned to hold a room. I trained in Kundalini and apprenticed after it. I became a Reiki practitioner and studied Holographic Sound. And then I found the tradition that gathered all of it: a long apprenticeship in the Divine Mother lineage, years of serving in temple immersions where blessing ceremonies ran three and four hours at a time, and finally an ordination as a priestess of this presence.
That last part is not a title I hold above anyone. It is a responsibility I carry into every room, and it means the work is not mine. I hold the space. She leads.
underneath it. I did not have language for it then. I only knew that for one hour, in room full of strangers, I was not at war with myself, and I wanted to know how to make that last.
It took a long time. For years I drank, and for years I told myself a story about why that was fine. When I finally stopped, what came next was not a program of self improvement. It was the far more uncomfortable work of learning how to stay with myself without leaving. That is where this practice actually begins. It is also why I tend to recognize the story someone is telling themselves before they do. I told most of those stories first, and I know how convincing they are from the inside.
I taught yoga for five years, which is how I learned to hold a room. I trained in Kundalini and apprenticed after it. I became a Reiki practitioner and studied Holographic Sound. And then I found the tradition that gathered all of it: a long apprenticeship in the Divine Mother lineage, years of serving in temple immersions where blessing ceremonies ran three and four hours at a time, and finally an ordination as a priestess of this presence.
That last part is not a title I hold above anyone. It is a responsibility I carry into every room, and it means the work is not mine. I hold the space. She leads.
These trainings shaped my practice.
My own life has been the greater teacher.
Ordained Priestess, Divine Mother lineage · Hatha Yoga teacher, five years · Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and apprenticeship · Reiki Levels I and II · Holographic Sound Levels I and II
My own remembering
My own path of remembering.
How I got here.
My relationship with embodiment began twenty years ago when I first stepped into a yoga studio. What began with the body soon opened the door to something much deeper: a lifelong exploration of what it means to be fully present with ourselves.
Over the years, that exploration has taken many forms. I taught Hatha yoga for five years, completed a Kundalini yoga teacher training and apprenticeship, became a Reiki practitioner, and studied Holographic Sound. Along the way, my own life continually asked me to practice what I was learning. To question the stories I believed. To meet the parts of myself I would rather avoid. To stay present when leaving myself would have been easier.
Eventually, my path led me to Divine Mother work. I’ve spent the last two and a half years apprenticing under Elizabeth Heubner, serving within temple immersions and assisting in trainings before being ordained as a Priestess through the Church of Divine Mother.
My training gave me practices, teachers, and a lineage. My life taught me how to live them.
For a long time, I believed freedom was somewhere outside of me. If I could understand enough, achieve enough or become enough, I would eventually arrive there. What I found was simpler: freedom came through learning to meet myself exactly where I was.
How I Work
I believe in the both / and.
Tenderness and truth
I will meet you with compassion without reinforcing the stories that keep you stuck. There is room here for tenderness and honest reflection.
Depth and lightness
This work can take us into vulnerable places. It can also hold laughter, play and the beautiful absurdity of being human.
Tenderness and truth
I will meet you with compassion without reinforcing the stories that keep you stuck. There is room here for tenderness and honest reflection.
Depth and lightness
This work can take us into vulnerable places. It can also hold laughter, play and the beautiful absurdity of being human.
Openness and boundaries
All of you is welcome here. We honor your pace, your choices and the boundaries that allow this work to remain safe and grounded.
Spirit and sovereignty
I hold this work in relationship with Divine Mother and Spirit without asking you to surrender your own authority. Your sovereignty remains your own.
Openness and boundaries
All of you is welcome here. We honor your pace, your choices and the boundaries that allow this work to remain safe and grounded.
Spirit and sovereignty
I hold this work in relationship with Divine Mother and Spirit without asking you to surrender your own authority. Your sovereignty remains your own.
Guiding Principles
A few things I know to be true.
We are worthy of meeting ourselves with both kindness and truth.
Softness and sovereignty can live in the same body.
Your shadows are not something to fear. They carry medicine.
Your body is not an obstacle to awakening. It is the way.
Sacredness is available in ordinary moments. An authentic life begins with being present for the one you are already living.
Outside the work
A little more about me.
I am also a wedding photographer and have spent years documenting people in some of the most meaningful moments of their lives. It is a practice that has shaped my spiritual work by teaching me that presence is what makes something sacred. The moments that move me most are rarely the perfect ones. I am drawn to what is human, honest and a little imperfect.
I am also becoming a mother, which has brought me even closer to what matters most: presence, love and the people we share our lives with.
Outside of work, I love being in nature, camping in our trailer with my husband, wandering through antique stores and slow mornings with a cup of coffee.
[Testimonial. Choose the one that speaks to who Mary is to sit with, rather than to what the work produced. Two to four sentences.]
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