Marianne Rowe, MS, LMFT

catalyzing, emerging, enjivening
marianne@montereybaymeditation.com

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. 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. 

Marianne’s (evidently) 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. Much of her energy and inspiration is sourced in Deeptime perspective, community-building, and relationships of reverence and reciprocity with all living beings. She embodies multi-faceted bewonderment, spirited dedication, and a playful, sometimes peculiar, way-of-being in the world. For grounding and spaciousness, she is eternally grateful for daily meditation practice that she began in the last century. 

Marianne’s current passions include co-creating and cultivating spaces for healing, transformation, and evolution through awareness and connection. She feels very blessed to be alive and active in this fertile and challenging time … especially with the company of the amazing Constellation that has come to light in Monterey Bay Meditation Studio.

I am touched by kindness, authenticity, and all outdoors. I am energized by collaboration, laughter, and drumming. I am inspired by willingness, community, and James Webb Space Telescope images. I am in love with Earth and all her beings ... and quite fond of holding paradoxes.
~ Marianne

http://www.montereybaymeditation.com
http://www.mariannerowe.net
mrowe@pacbell.net
(831) 373-1017

Cliff Berrien

metabolizing, dancing, eldering
I've primarily used my degree in psychology and substantial interest in healing of body, mind, spirit and community to focus on cultural expressions of collective joy as transformative ways to develop creativity, cultural dexterity and contemplative-somatic awareness. I've had the honor to work with my mentor, Dr. Barbara A. Holmes author of Crisis Contemplation and with Dr Vanessa Andreotti of the Gesturing toward Decolonial Futures Collective. From 2022-2023 I worked as a coproducer of events for Nigerian teacher Dr Bayo Ackamolafe focusing on the liberatory power of somatic engagement.

Stephan Martin

playing, co-emerging, and ever-exploring 

Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over 25 years. He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies program at John F. Kennedy University and also co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective. Steve frequently offers experiential workshops on stargazing, astronomy and personal transformation at observatories, learning centers, and other popular veneers around the world. He is the author of Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search for Reality.

Ryan Van Lenning

composting, paradoxing, belonging-ing

Ryan Van Lenning, MA, is a threshold guide, ecotherapist, teacher, and poet of the Great Turning. Ryan is passionate about supporting people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging in this time of the Great Turning/Great Composting. Trusting in co-liberation, he is grasped by a wondering: Can we, with wild nature hearts and humble courage, intentionally face this Collective Initiation of intersecting social and ecological crises?

Through Wild Nature Heart, Ryan offers 1-on-1 earth-rooted mentoring, custom renewal wilderness ceremonies/rites-of-passage, ecospiritual courses and workshops, and community Circles of the Great Turning.

Ryan is certified as an ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute and trained as a Wilderness Ceremony/Rite-of-Passage Guide through the School of Lost Borders. Prior to moving to California in 2007, he taught Philosophy, Comparative Religion, and Environmental Justice at Sinclair College in Ohio.

Ryan is author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. His poem ‘And All the Walls Between Them,’ responding to current immigration policies and social injustices, was recipient of the 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award by Toyon Literary Magazine. His new collections Riverever and One Bright and Real Caress will be released in 2024-2025. He lives and works among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot and Yurok lands.
http://wildnatureheart.com 

Marianne Rowe, MS, LMFT

Katie Dutcher, MA