How do we embody being aware and being kind when so much is painful and scary?

How can we respond rather than react to all that is happening in our world?

How do we access nourishment and belonging when so much of what we have known is changing or collapsing?

How do we engage the dynamics of current circumstances in a way that clarifies rather than confuses and energizes rather than overwhelms?

What opportunities arise from a “wicked predicament?”

“Eye of the Hurricane: Conscious Relationship with Personal and Global Change” explores these questions, and more, through guided meditation, mindful discussion, and experiential practices. We learn to navigate the tension of crisis and opportunity from a place of holding paradox -- engagement and stillness, personal and collective, grief and joy -- by cultivating a steady mind and open heart. In this way, we begin to shift our relationship with current personal and global circumstances to living with and from the truth of uncertainty.

Images from the Hubble Telescope offer us a map of transformation as we engage:

Contemplative exploration of the natural process of evolution;
Guided meditations to access inner resources;
Somatic and energetic practices that cultivate a steady mind and open heart;
Reflective writing to process and integrate internal and external changing;
Relational perspective that supports a larger, deeptime perspective;
Creative expression of what is emerging from the emergency ...

… to stabilize the inner world as we move through outer world transition.

Join us as we find our seats in the Inflection Point ...

Centering on a Vertical Line (the roots of grounding and the universal process of evolving) rather than a Horizontal Line (the winds and currents of swirling around previous structures, habits, and patterns that are no longer working) sourcing our choices and actions from a foundational and inspired place in service of cultivating a new paradigm, a new story of how we are being in the world.

Teacher: Marianne Rowe
Tuesdays, May 24, 31, June 7, 14
5:30-7:00 pm
$148

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.

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Marianne B. Rowe, MS, is a Founding Teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, ANFT-Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, Eco-therapist, CA Certified Naturalist, Facilitator of Mindful Relating Practice, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Through her guiding, teaching, facilitating, and private psychotherapy practice, Marianne cultivates healing, transformation and evolution through awareness and connection. Her professional and personal life focuses on integrating the physiological, cognitive, emotional, relational and spiritual aspects of being. www.mariannerowe.net

This course is part of the Evolution of Consciousness and Outdoors MBMS Pathways.

This event meets online via Zoom, with additional components on our online community platform. After you register, we’ll send you the access details.

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