Bridging the Soul was founded by Natalie Marie, a facilitator, ritualist, and ceremonial guide. Her life is in devotion to the art of becoming more human — a remembrance of deep communion with one’s self and the vast field of relations we exist within.
Whether working with Natalie in an immersive group or one-on-one container, she is committed to supporting the experience of wholeness, healing, and purposefulness in those she guides. She offers grounded, safe, and evolutionary spaces, so those she works with can dive deep within, while also expanding into greater intimacy with the world around them.
Over the last fifteen years, she has been been guiding one-on-one and group spaces. Throughout this time, her work has spanned the fields of nature-based human development, eco-, somatic-, and archetypal- psychology, yoga and meditation, trauma-informed mindfulness in clinical treatment facilities, musicianship, the mystical and ritual arts, animism, plant medicine, and ceremonial facilitation.
She devotes much of a her time to studying and working with the wisdom of master plants and has worked with teachers from the Shipibo Konibo and Cocama lineages, along with Western guides.
Natalie’s formal education rests in Sociology and International Studies, with degrees and certifications from the University of Amsterdam and San Francisco State University. She is additionally trained in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Nature-Based Human Development through The Red Thread, Trauma-Informed guidance through the Somatic Experiencing Institution and The Embody Lab, and Trauma and Social Change through Meridian University. She holds certifications and many years of practice and facilitation in the yogic, healing, ritual, animistic, and therapeutic arts.