Mayra Leen

Mayra Leen runs ceremonies, retreats, and women's circles out of Austin. Their events lean toward the ritualistic and embodied, with names like "Golden Nectar: Food of the Gods" that tell you exactly what territory you're in. This is not yoga-and-smoothies wellness. It's ceremony, tantra, shadow work, and pleasure treated as serious practice. People come to Mayra's events because the container feels both held and free at the same time, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.

Before building this work, Mayra spent years in operations, business strategy, and product management. They held leadership roles at startups and Fortune 100 companies, and they have degrees from Baylor University and Northwestern University. That background shows up in how they run events in ways you might not expect. Their facilitation is structured and deliberate, consent gets laid out clearly before anything begins, and the pacing of an evening or a full-day workshop feels considered rather than loose. Plenty of people in this space can hold energy in a room. Fewer of them can also run one.

Mayra is a certified hypnotherapist, embodiment coach, and best-selling author. Their philosophy is direct: everything you're looking for is already inside you, and pleasure is a legitimate way to access it. They work with what they call the full spectrum of being, light and shadow both, without trying to fix people or push them toward a specific outcome. Acceptance comes first. Then whatever wants to move through can move through. That framing runs through everything they do, from large group ceremonies to quiet one-on-one sessions. It also explains why their events tend to attract people who are done performing growth and ready to actually feel something.

Their calendar covers a lot of ground. Dark Temple gatherings, women's circles, ritual ceremonies, daylong workshops, and destination retreats all show up regularly. What ties it together is the scale and the approach. These are smaller groups where Mayra can track the room and respond to what's happening in real time. They describe their method as "clean facilitation" and "consent-led play" layered with music and ritual. If you've spent time in Austin's tantra and embodiment community, you've probably come across their name or attended something they organized.

Mayra also takes on one-on-one coaching clients and does business consulting, which might sound like an odd pairing until you hear them explain it. They bring the same mix of analytical thinking and gut-level intuition to a client's business that they bring to a ceremony circle. Strategy and soul, in Mayra's framing, are not separate skill sets. They just get applied to different problems. Their coaching starts from the same premise as their ceremonies: people already have what they need, and the work is getting whatever blocks them out of the way.

Find out more at mayraleen.com or follow along on Instagram at @mayraleen.