Local Stories with Shoutout Colorado

* An article by Shoutout Colorado with Maya Sol

Meet Maya Sol Dansie | Founder & CEO, Cultural Broker, & Life Therapist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Maya Sol Dansie and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Maya Sol, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?

In my own lived experience as a 1st generation, Spanish-speaking Mujer in Boulder County, I experienced a huge gap in services, visibility, and experiences that were relevant to my identity. This was true in community events, leadership positions, mental health & therapeutic services that considered Indigenous practices; inclusion to my Spanish-speaking self, and overall access to resources. I have I lived in the ‘in-between space’, being told to “check your activism at the door.”

As I grew, I learned I wasn’t alone in my experience and desire for change, access and representation in my community were shared and we found and cultivated a strong, intergenerational community committed to creating new systems built on authentic cultural identity formation, social and institutional change. I believe that mental healing and authentic identity formation include engaging in social justice. Mayamotion Healing is my response. ⁠

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?

Mayamotion Healing is a consulting and holistic therapy group practice serving our BIPOC communities. We are on a transformative journey, driven by a powerful purpose: to heal the hearts, minds, and communities of today’s world. Our mission is simple yet profound – to ignite healing, empower change, and champion justicia.

Mayamotion Healing is committed to raising awareness, cultivating political consciousness, and standing in power with the community. The focus extends to increasing culturally grounded and decolonial mental health access in California and Colorado, with a particular emphasis on Spanish-speaking and BIPOC communities. There is a proud history of addressing disparities within the community with an intersectional, intergenerational, and inclusive lens, especially for LGBTQ2S Communities of Color.

We are proud to have a team of clinicians that are Bilingual and Bicultural Women of Color who offer individual, couples, adolescent, youth, family, and community therapeutic services. Our deep cultural competency ensures therapy is tailored to each client’s cultural background, intersectionality, and lived experience. We incorporate Indigenous healing practices and knowledge that is guided by the wisdom of our elders, the mentoring of our ancestors, and our spiritual comadres.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.

Well first and foremost, if you are a guest of mine, you’re first stop is without a doubt, mi casita. We’ll start here where I will have a family recipe on the stove – your choice of albondigas, pozole, or buffet style. Once our bellies are happy – it’s off to an early birdwatching tour. Just down the road we have families of eagles that like to post up, offering their birds eye view perspectives. We have incredible open space areas where we honor and give thanks to our original caretakers of these lands, to the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho peoples who are still here. As we road trip, we’ll make stops at some of our local community spaces including our close partners at El Centro AMISTAD at their new home on Pearl St., our collaborators at Integrated Work and home office of Mayamotion, and connect with our collaborative teams who are beautiful humans doing beautiful movement work. We’ll continue our day with a long walk around Chautauqua to build up an appetite for some Nopalitos downtown and end the night in good company at a community celebration with great food and social impact!

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?

I inherit a legacy of activism from my diverse and deeply rooted family. I carry within me the teachings of my father, Roberto, a Mayan-Toltec renowned speaker and Clinical Psychologist, and my mother, Elena, a cultural psychotherapist specializing in women’s power and infant mental health. Their wisdom, intertwined with the resilience passed down from my father, Jorge, a community organizer and advocate, and my mother, Tessa, an author and health equity ambassador, forms the foundation of my journey.

With roots firmly planted in Mexico, they instilled in me the sacred principle of Cultura Cura—the belief that investing in my cultural well-being is an act of healing rebellion. My path is a reflection of my family’s commitment to resistance and change, echoing the survival and sacrifices of my ancestors and abuelos. It is through honoring these lineages, exploring my identities, acknowledging my power and privilege, and embracing the beautiful tapestry of my relations, family, culture, history, and upbringing, that I find purpose in my work. To be of service is not just a duty but a sacred honor embraced with cariño, humility, and a profound sense of responsibility.

*This article is credited to Shoutout Colorado