“We are in a storm. It matters how we meet it.”
– Nora Bateson
Here we are … All of us … Every living being on Earth is feeling the impact of what is happening now … Some more than others … Yet, all of us are sensing some degree of the anxiety of uncertainty, the heartbreak of loss, the fear of unpredictability, the confusion of complexity, the dysregulation of change, the exhaustion of overwhelm … to name a few of the discomforts and disruptions.
Finding Your Way Through is an experiential journey of practices that cultivate healing, compassion, clarity, and growth. The key is in strengthening and deepening capacity to be present with complexity, discomfort, and impermanence. While a lot of attention, energy and money is currently being given to changing external circumstances and/or other people, this course is different. The focus here is on dealing with what’s-happening-in-the-world from the inside-out instead of having our sense of relationality and internal balance being lost as life-as-we-have-known-it unravels .
“... everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
– Viktor Frankl
With a clear mind, stable emotions and relaxed body, we respond rather than react and can see choices that are invisible to us when we are feeling threatened, lost, alone, and/or afraid. We have access to resilience, wisdom, effectiveness and our best humanity … options that are not available when we are in fight/flight/freeze/fawn mode.
“Find your seat. It’s really important that we take our seat with intention. It’s not just like a chair. It’s like you’re really truly taking your seat … the seat of your power.”
– Rev. angel Kyodo williams
The journey of Finding Your Way Through is all about practice, practice, practice – in service of waking-up, growing-up, and showing-up.
We engage well-researched and proven-effective practices to calm your mind, console your heart, comfort your frightened one, settle your nervous system, and get some space and rest.
Together, we explore somatic, sensory, meditation, relational, creative and energetic practices, as we learn how to listen to the wisdom of our body, heart, and spirit.
We learn how to tune-into guidance from the other-than-human world of plants, elements, and critters that have been surviving for thousands of years before humans even came to be on the planet.
We cultivate the potential to access stillness in a field of turbulence, openness in the midst of contraction, and rest in the throes of busy-ness.
It’s an inside job.
“What you once tried to escape becomes your practice.”
– Andrew Holecek
Join us as we learn ways of creating islands of coherence in a chaotic time, as individuals and in community … in practice, together.
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
– Wendell Berry
Facilitator: Marianne Rowe
Every other Tuesday, Mar. 10 - May 19
5:30-7:00 pm (Pacific)
Cost:
$250 – Supporter (I want to offer more support to this important work.)
$200 – Regular (I can pay at the regular level.)
$125 – Partial Scholarship (Money is tight. I can pay at this level.)
This course meets online via Zoom, with additional components on our online community platform. When you register, we’ll send you the details to access the session on Zoom.
Marianne Rowe
As a humane being, co-founding teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Marianne is dedicated to cultivating eco-systemic consciousness and living in-cahoots with Earth, Cosmos, and Life in all forms. Marianne’s insatiable love of learning has led her into certifications as a nature & forest therapy guide, eco-therapist, California naturalist, and Authentic Relating facilitator, along with certifications in eco-psychology, climate stewardship and climate psychology. She has been practicing meditation since the last century and teaching mindfulness meditation to children and adults since 2006.
Her sense of belonging and aliveness is sourced and deepened through walks, sits, and gazing with the Pacific Ocean, forest, night skies, along with evolutionary, envisioning conversations with beloved friends and colleagues. Read more