I’m Ginny Muir
Mentor. Writer. Mystical relationship coach. Devotee to the cycles of Life.
Here to ask the question: “what would bring you so alive it might feel a little like dying?”
Come hang out with me at THAT edge, where the juiciest transformation happens.
I’m also an open book, because transparency breeds intimacy, and intimacy is my thing. Let’s start here:
I am a student, a ceaseless investigator, and a scientist of the human experience. My life is my laboratory.
I am driven by authentic connection — with self, with other, with everything around us.
I am a Pisces Sun, Aries Moon, Taurus rising. I am emotional. I am water. I am passionate. I am fire. I know myself most fully as nature.
I am a 1/3 Manifesting Generator with an emotional authority — a boundlessly energetic creatrix of beauty and an advocate for wildness in all forms.
I believe in the relentless healing force moving through each of us, and I’m honored to ally with this energy in service of liberation. One human heart at a time.
A WORD ON WHAT I’M SERVING
If you look closely enough, you’ll notice… the connective tissue animating all my work is a deep devotion to the principles of the Feminine.
The dance of opposites — in balance — is the lifeblood of planet Earth. For centuries, we have favored the masculine pole: prioritized achievement over process, dominance over interdependence, extraction over reciprocity, mind over heart. The feminine is insistently inviting us to breathe life back into Her. To return our ecology to even footing.
This does not mean making flower crowns or dancing in lingerie (though I’ve been known to support both activities, when infused with real meaning). It is certainly not about performing for love, or sexualization, or cultural beauty standards.
The capital-F Feminine is deeply feeling, intimately connected, cyclical, ever-changing and courageously real. She is the Earth itself. She is the pure expression of the heart. The willingness to live, die and be reborn again and again and again.
I am here to serve that Feminine.
MY STORY
My earliest memories include a clear awareness of being “different.” While the texture of my soul is wild, ancient and indigenous, I incarnated in this life as an upper-middle-class white girl from the American South.
My contemporaries played house with dolls; my most interesting conversations were with the trees. I got in trouble in Sunday School for my persistent questions about “the other Mary” (as in Magdalene), the character I found most compelling in the religion of my upbringing. I devoured myth and made forts with stone hearths, potion-making stations and herb bundles strung from the ceiling. I had a strong dislike for shoes and pants.
My sensitivity was off the charts, which I was taught to relate to as a problem. I learned early on to disguise the vast (and seemingly troubling) depth of my emotions.
Wild. Feminine.
Deeply confused about how to be me and be loved.
And so, I became an expert at aligning with conditioning. I strived heroically to be pleasing, successful and tiny. Salutatorian, cheerleading captain, president of so many things, a real-life debutante with a shiny college scholarship and Greek letters on my shirt. Checking all the boxes, repressing the shit out of my innate desires with the help of a very entrenched eating disorder, all the while barely concealing a thirst for life + freedom which would occasionally come out sideways (there I was, again, the drunkest girl at the party).
College left me with a heavy dose of trauma and a vacuum where my sense of Self should have been. I looked golden but felt like an insecure, shadowy mess.
And still I held fast to the belief: if I could just do everything right, all the chaos inside me would sort itself out.
I moved to Washington DC and set out to conquer the corporate ladder. I married young — hitching my future to that of an impressive knight in shining armor, hoping he could save me. He couldn’t. I felt like I was living a double life: engaged and impressive on the outside, secretly empty, lost and starving on the inside. A hologram of myself.
When I was 29 — hello, Saturn return— my body alerted me that, while I might be fooling everyone else, she would no longer put up with my deep self-deception.
Everything in my physiology began to mysteriously collapse and no Western medical diagnosis could get to the bottom of what was really going on. And so, with the help of a holistic health coach who “magically” appeared on my path, I looked deeper.
I learned to nourish myself, found meditation and truly embodied movement (not, ahem, forced-march 10-mile runs) and sat with my journal in nature for hours. I started tending to my sensitivity as opposed to overriding it, approaching myself with gentleness and curiosity, and miraculously my energy came back online. My whole personality changed. All of a sudden, there I was.
The next five years were uncomfortable, to say the least. As I awoke from numbness and slumber, I realized the life I had built according to plan wasn’t actually for me. I didn’t like my job, was unhappy in my marriage, felt suffocated by where I lived and lacked deep connection.
The daunting diagnosis: all kinds of misaligned.
Enter my first (and therefore slowest and most grueling) experience of a death cycle.
One by one, I dismantled the pieces: high-paying real estate development job, tidy but sexless marriage, stuffy concrete city, shallow connections masquerading as friendship.
And, in the meantime, I started coaching.
Inspired by the changes in my own physical body, I went back to school and began supporting others with health and nutrition. It didn’t take long for me to understand that nothing physical could truly be reconciled without addressing the underlying emotional wounds.
My career path as a healer became my guiding light— I tracked down root causes of disease with a passion and fervor not felt in decades. I studied energy work, relational patterns, the tantric path, esoteric + animist lineages and somatics. I met plant medicine. I found the humans who I now call my friends and beloveds. I began to really get emotional intimacy, sisterhood and community.
Sixteen years and many death cycles into the journey of re-meeting myself…
I now live in an open-air, solar-powered, living art project of a villa in the jungle of Costa Rica (basically, a professionally constructed version of those forts in the Georgia woods). My work is my passion. I am married again, this time in a deeply devoted relationship with my beloved— whom it took me 42 years to find— building a life and love that expands us both on a daily basis. I’ve never been closer to my true form, which is essentially feral mycelial forest nymph.
I have accepted with genuine delight there will always be more to learn and, with my Soul firmly in the driver’s seat, my Human is ever-more-willing to release layers of conditioning, wounding and delusion so I can be who I came here to be, this time around. And help you do the same.
I will never stop exploring the white-hot edges of life; that’s where I continually find more of what’s True.
In the Truth we may not always find comfort, but we do find freedom. And for me, Freedom is where it’s at.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Catherine Cakir
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“I’m learning so much about relating in this group; sometimes I feel like such a baby on this journey— almost 40 and only now understanding what healthy adult connection can look like!
I’m still single, but with a deeper understanding of the work it takes to be in a good, strong relationship. A reverance for clear, honest, heart-centered communication and feedback between people.
Through this group, I’ve begun to recognize how deeply my ways of relating were shaped by childhood patterns, and what it will take to grow into the version of myself capable of the love and connection I long for. Seeing others walk the path ahead of me has been inspiring.
I can’t say thank you enough -- it’s been truly life-changing.”
MY APPROACH
I mentor humans at the intersection of the unseen and the highly tangible. The place where the Mystery meets the 3D. We travel to the depths of unmet desires and we layer in practical tools for connecting with self, other humans, the earth and the divine. In a format that is grounded + somatically rooted, we dance with karma and consciousness, at the erotic edge of life.
I approach all my work with the following values at heart:
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In order to heal we must open, and in order to open we must feel safe. My innate warmth, curiosity and fellow-humanness invite your most tender parts to feel held. I am committed to being energetically meticulous, non-judgmental and collaborative.
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I love people up close. All our wounds happen in relationship — and therefore can only be healed in relationship. I design containers of true intimacy so these outdated patterns can reveal themselves and be re-wired inside a space of trust. I’ll find my way into all your cracks, fully seeing you and meeting you exactly as you are.
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My life is my prayer— infused with ritual, connection, constant learning, and my very best efforts to walk in a good way. Work + life are interwoven for me. I cultivate regular access to awe and wonder, and bring this full presence to each and every precious client experience.
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My coaching relationships differ from the traditionally therapeutic in a notable way: the conscious dissolution of power dynamics. I do not hold myself apart from those I work with. As you candidly share your life with me, I do the same. My life’s lessons become my teachings.
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My work is about fully inhabiting the human experience. We go beneath the conceptual to the place where change can be most stubborn: the physical body. We can’t fully heal unless we bring the body along.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Bettie Cagle
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“I loved how vulnerable and brave the group was while sharing. I loved hearing we were all experiencing many of the same relational dynamics.
Thanks to this program, I feel confident I have a skill level (and actionable formats!) for situations as they arise. I have a new trust that we CAN work them out. My partner now believes in the power of a group program (that's HUGE). We both feel we have gained resilience for the road ahead and new resources we can draw on again and again.”
My Tools + Lineages
My first self-assessment experience was a career counseling process at 18 — a comprehensive series of aptitude tests promising to tell me what I was supposed to be when I grew up (and exactly how to get there). The verdict? “The perfect career for you doesn’t currently exist, and you’re going to have to make it up on your own if you want to be happy.” Daunting, and also… accurate.
It took me until age 29 to accept the challenge, but once I gave myself permission to follow the fiery impulse of my passion, my non-linear curiosity and my intuition, I began to curate a PhD program to activate my unique gifts and bring them in service to the world.
The curriculum is (thankfully) never-ending. To date, I honor the following lineages and teachers by weaving their wisdom into my work:
The comprehensive health coach training offered by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, through which I was board-certified and catapulted onto the path of supporting bodies with food + other essential sources of nourishment.
The expert guidance of Nisha Moodley, who imparted leadership coaching skills, taught me to hold group containers for collective healing, helped me remember the magic of ritual and with whom I now collaborate regularly.
Invaluable relational wisdom from Kavita Patel, who helped me understand my blocks to love and their origins in my childhood, and Paul Ruffer, who gave me real-time training in Imago Relationship Therapy as I navigated my divorce (a transformational healing experience in which we eventually parted with appreciation and care).
Elayne Kalila Doughty, priestess of the Thirteen Moon Mystery School, with whom I learned of sacred archetypes, sat in Temple, and remembered myself as a holder of ancient feminine wisdom.
A life-changing apprenticeship to Javier Reguiero— shaman, ayahuasquero, and my greatest teacher. Meeting Javier in 2013 began my deep walk with plant medicine, connected me to the animist teachings of the Capanahua people indigenous to Peru and initiated me in shadow work. It was my honor to assist him in ceremony and absorb his wisdom until his death in 2020.
David Elliott, who certified me in Pranayama Breathwork meditation through his Healer Training series and deepened my practices of altar work and allyship with the natural world.
Tata Pedro and Nana Marina Cruz, wisdom keepers of the Mayan tradition based in Guatemala, who I humbly honor for their teachings of fire, sweat, tobacco and cacao, as well as the transmission of the Mayan calendar and cosmovision.
The teachings of Lola Pickett — channeler of animals, song and sacred space design — which have deepened my capacity to collaborate with other-than-human beings.
Grandmother Sarah Maclean Bicknell, who has helped me to tap further into collective and ancient wisdom through the technologies of indigenous dreaming and ancestral constellation.
The body of work offered by John Wineland and Kendra Cunov encompassing sensual embodiment, spiritual intimacy + sexual polarity, which has given me tools for holding romantic relationship as sacred practice.
Kelly Kessen, whose relationship with the energetic channels of the human body and the deep wisdom of earth ways both informs me and enables me to continue doing what I do.
Mentorship by Lara Blair Irwin, somatic psychotherapist and creator of SomaField, an integrative approach which weaves nervous system literacy, socio-cultural attunement, attachment awareness and artistry into transformational work for individuals and couples.
Long-term work Martha Hamilton, Master Practitioner of NARM, the Neuro-Affective Relational Model for healing early developmental trauma in adults
And finally, the women of my weekly Sister Circle (going strong since 2013) and my monthly Moon Circle (established 2017), with whom I actively practice a return to the matriarchal ways of circling, and devote to the patient, resilient, long-term relational care I believe can save our world.
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