About Marney
Training & Lineage
My work is shaped by a three-year initiatory training with the AWE Ecstatic Mysticism program, where I have studied psychedelic integration, ritual process, somatic inquiry, and relational ethics under the guidance of Lila and Mar Vega, Alejandra Soto, and Ramiro Peralta, including training with Kylea Taylor, Ben Malcolm, and others.
My orientation is also informed by lived initiation through illness, including breast cancer at a young age, and ongoing inquiry into the genetic, ancestral, and soul-level dimensions of illness. These experiences have grounded my capacity to remain present with uncertainty, grief, and identity rupture without rushing toward resolution.
Somatic & Embodied Practice
I bring a lifelong devotion to somatic practice, with a background in teaching yoga and studying movement through dance, contortion, acrobatics, and circus arts. I have also lived and worked at Esalen Institute, where I deepened my understanding of Gestalt-based inquiry and body healing through loving, safe, trauma-informed touch that responds phenomenologically to what arises in the moment.
Relational & Community Ground
Alongside this, I have lived and worked within global communities of artists, healers, activists, and leaders, shaping a relational, pluralistic approach rooted in presence, consent, and deep listening.
Modalities & Ways of Working
Dreamwork
Allowing the dream to breathe and speak on its own terms — not reduced to ego narrative, but held imaginally and somatically. Inspired by Jung, Bill Plotkin, and shamanic traditions.
Griefwork
Rooted in community, ritual, and the collective field — informed by thinkers such as Francis Weller and Gabor Maté — honoring grief as initiatory rather than pathological.
Ritual & Integration Practices
Ritual-building to support integration, coherence, and wholeness across psyche, body, and relational life.
Parts-Informed Work
Compassionate engagement with the inner chorus — tending protective adaptations, wounded parts, and essential qualities without shame or coercion.
Self-Knowledge & Awareness
A deep belief in self-knowledge as a path to liberation, drawing on frameworks such as Enneagram and Gestalt to cultivate intimacy with both the authentic self and the constructed self.
Alchemy
Informed by alchemical psychology (Jung, Hillman), understanding psychological crisis, altered states, and identity dissolution as necessary stages of transformation rather than problems to be fixed.
I help people integrate transformative experiences and come into deeper balance, meaning, and right relationship.