Mid-Week Sea Change:
Pausing to Take a Breath

 

Wednesday mornings, 9:00 - 9:30 Pacific; online

Every day, we find ourselves engaging with unprecedented global change happening at an increasingly rapid pace and meeting circumstances that we never imagined – naturally most of us are feeling overwhelmed and, often, alone.

“Given where we are, contemplative practices must do more than offer respite and space for retreat. We need healing practices and transformative responses to issues that continue to divide our society.”
— Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes

How do we find our center when everything feels out of balance?

How do we feel connected when what we count-on disappears?

How do we cultivate a sense of peace when conflict and noise is everywhere we turn?

Many of us, particularly in the Western culture, have grown accustomed to finding center, connection, and peace outside of ourselves rather than through connection with our inner world.

It’s no wonder that there is a pervasive feeling of being at-a-loss in a swirl of anxiety, agitation, and edginess.

Enter “Mid-week Sea Change: Pausing to Take a Breath” …

An opportunity to:

  • Deepen capacity for staying present and engaged,

  • Cultivate ability to process emotions in service of enhancing clarity and compassion;

  • Engage in mutual learning and support in a field of community;

  • Acknowledge the experience of loss and honor the grief;

  • Expand access to being-in-relationship with discomfort and difference in a way that enhances connection rather than a sense of separation.

We come together for a half-hour on Wednesdays to re-member the power of practicing in a group, establishing a weekly rhythm of cultivating a sense of community and belonging as we engage, together, through sharing practices of meditation, exploration, and deep listening to ourselves and each other.

You are invited to experience the rhythm of weekly group practice, cultivating a sense of community and belonging by tapping into the energy of the collective which arises when an experience is shared.

 

Guide:

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.