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Beyond concepts, there is a direct, felt sense of *being me*.
Awareness. It pulsates in all of us.
You know it. I knew it.
Yet for a long time, I was frustrated as to why my suffering wouldn’t end.
What was wrong with me? Why was all this inner work not working?
With time and the help of teachers,
I came to understand that while life is messy,
And very painful at times
The fact that it is painful
doesn’t mean ANYTHING about me.
Beyond concepts, there is a direct, felt sense of *being me*.
Awareness. It pulsates in all of us.
You know it. I knew it.
Yet for a long time, I was frustrated as to why my suffering wouldn’t end.
What was wrong with me? Why was all this inner work not working?
With time and the help of teachers,
I came to understand that while life is messy,
And very painful at times
The fact that it is painful doesn’t mean ANYTHING about me.
There is nothing wrong with me.
I somehow used to correlate the pain of existence with my own failure.
I don’t do that anymore.
I understand: Life IS challenging, “by design”.
While being fully alive, I can not avoid pain.
What is in my power, however, is to trust myself
instead of making myself wrong.
While I still feel pain, I don’t suffer from avoiding it.
There is nothing wrong with me.
I somehow used to correlate the pain of existence with my own failure.
I don’t do that anymore.
I understand: Life IS challenging, “by design”.
While being fully alive, I can not avoid pain.
What is in my power, however, is to trust myself instead of making myself wrong.
While I still feel pain, I don’t suffer from avoiding it.
I am here to create a safe space for you to learn that pain can be safe and to trust it – to discover it as a healing agent.
That is the way of transformation.
It is the way of the nervous system, as well.
In trauma healing we speak about completing the trauma cycle, i.e finding resolution by feeling sensations that have beensuppressed before for good reason.
The same way, in non-dual tantra we speak about emotional digestion, which encourages us to perceive our sensations so fullly that we can not find their beginning or end. They diffuse.
Consequently feelings lose impact, avoidance goes down and your true self shines brightly more often.
With my support you can learn to unlatch the sensations from their context, feel them purely and watch them change.
All wisdom is contained in the body.
Your body is our guide. We will move with the speed of your body.
Trust this life. Alchemize. You are meant to be.
Intimacy with self
As we deepen our “yes” to life and ourselves we may discover that too many rules and far off goals can dampen our aliveness. Uninhibited expression – freedom – arises when we orient towards safety beyond control.
This way of life is the way of the Mystics, unconditional lovers like Rumi and Hafiz, spiritual finders and those creatives that need no reassurance.
It has also been called the path of direct realization, as nothing other than our momentary experience of truth is used to access freedom.
In honor of these age-old mystery school teachings, my mentor Ernest Morrow has created a profound program called “Initiation Into The Beauty Way ‘.
With his blessings I am now mentoring individuals in “The Beauty Way”.
In 24 sessions (commonly stretched over 6 months) we will discover the transformative power of truth applied to your challenges and circumstances.
My mentorship is based on intuition, personal attunement, and somatic explorations.
This is “desire for freedom applied in the midst of confusion of the here and now”.
The goal is not to make you feel better. Instead, through being rooted more deeply in the “reliability of that which never changes” you will be better able to be with whatever life throws at you.
Testimonials
“It was only a few weeks into my course with Marina when I began to notice shifts taking place. When we first started I was waking up every morning in a panic, each day it felt like my life was falling apart in new ways. I was in a state of unraveling. Through my time with her I’ve found trust in this unfolding. No longer protecting myself from life, I am moving with it. Back into aliveness.
From here I see more clearly, I love more fully. I am reconnected to peace and an invaluable inner knowing, in ways I haven’t been for years. This has been the greatest gift. The most important thing I could’ve done for myself. Put simply, my time with Marina has been the key to a door I’ve been longing to step through. And I am so grateful.”
Lauren
“Working together has helped me to feel into the actual feelings behind all my stories, and find comfort in who I am. Orienting back to the truth every week, I’ve seen my creative practice and relationships really start to open up and go beautiful places.” Alex
“Working with Marina allowed me insights, and endowed me with tools, which have empowered me to deepen into my healing process and engender life-affirming transformation.
The integrity and commitment Marina embodies created the safety I needed to address the self-imposed limitations of my own psyche and begin the transition into human adulthood.
Through a process of inquiry and somatic exploration Marina has taught me how to bring my own loving awareness to the deeply held beliefs that once protected me, but became the cause of my suffering.
By cultivating intimacy with my own body, she has shown me how to integrate my shadow elements into the ground of my divine being. The first essential steps towards true sovereignty and liberation.
Marina’s offering has inspired in me the hope that one day I too will be able to hold space and transmit truth, for even just one person, with the same love, beauty and passion with which she has done for me.” Nik
Intimacy with body
Your body is your home. Your sexuality is a place of great power and love.
Your body is the place where love and sex can merge and alchemize. And it is not just your body but your womb is a place of great magic and more specifically: your cervix.
I have been learning from Olivia Byrant (Self:Cervix) for years and am now one of the first six students that have undergone her official training. I consider Oliva a true pioneer as she is teaching the cutting edge of what is possible in sex with consciousness.
I am honored and excited to offer this work to a growing number of women in in-person workshops as well as in 1:1 session.
Please follow social media for workshop details and contact me about 1:1 work in the contact form down below.
Testimonials
“Thank you Marina, that was such a wonderful and nourishing journey with you and the other women, I feel so blessed to have been a part of that!
Thank you for your generosity to open your home and to share these deep teachings with us, your empathy and compassion for us and your beautiful shining heart! I really received so much from it, a new awareness of my womb and a new level of awakening and flow . I’m gonna miss this container and looking forward to the next edition! Love you all! See you soon ” Lisa
“The course with Marina was a truly unique experience, where I expanded the perception of my sexuality and femininity.
She created a safe nest where we had the opportunity to talk openly and to explore without judgment. The opportunity of sharing important topics of sexuality with other women; connecting with our own cervix, and reminding us of the importance of this sacred, and sometimes forgotten space in our body, was absolutely wonderful.
To feel my cervix and explore her through many useful tools like Marinas meditations is simply magic!I am deeply grateful for these teachings and the experience of taking the Cervix Awakening Course. It is so powerful to open our knowledge and to get more in tune with our power and essence. I totally recommend her course if you want to get deeper and expand your sexual power, if you want to be in your own natural essence and connect with the divine gift of being a woman!
Muchas gracias Marina <3″ Rosa
Feelings consist of sensations which are felt in the body and registered in the
oldest part of our brain, the reptilian brain (like heat, tingling, numbness,
streaming) plus the meaning we give these sensations that is issued by the
“meaning making” part of the brain, the frontal cortex. (“this sucks”, “I failed”, ”It’s her fault” etc.)
Sensations themselves are not overwhelming.
Deep feelings are scary because of the context that is given to the sensations.
The “meaning making” is what enhances the suffering.
Meaning making, however, is optional. In the right circumstances, feelings
themselves can be felt as mere sensations in the body.