LIFE AS RITUAL
- Accessible, sustainable, intentional shifts that will transform your life -
Life as Ritual is a self-led online course intended to guide you to a state of presence, awareness and becoming your most aligned, embodied and empowered Self through weaving ritual and ceremony into your life.
A space to soften into Being. To rediscover, receive and reclaim your inner wisdom, connection to Nature and the natural cycles with the support of ancient and modern practices.
Your tool-kit of rituals and self-nourishment practices that will be your ongoing inspiration and daily + weekly anchors in the chaos and conflicting demands of life.
You are constantly pulled in different directions, leaving you overwhelmed and exhausted, with little time left for yourself, lacking vitality, stressed and unable to communicate your needs. The guilt of not being able to give 100% to any aspect of your life weighs heavily on you. Despite your best efforts, the chaos persists, and the idea of finding balance seems like a distant dream.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Imagine:
Waking up each morning feeling refreshed and energised, ready to take on the day's challenges with a still and unbothered mind
Connecting to your body and inner cycles and knowing exactly what it needs in each moment
Implementing simple yet expansive self-nourishment practices and rituals that give vitality to your body, mind and spirit and nurture your well-being
Feeling emotionally resilient, equipped with tools to handle stress and prevent burnout
Having awareness of what feels good for your body, mind and spirit and feeling empowered to advocate for your needs and time for yourself
Having strong, respected boundaries
Enjoying meaningful connections with your family and friends, free from guilt and anxiety
Having a strong and regulated nervous system and responding to life from a place of awareness instead of simply reacting
Feeling more calm and grounded
Living a life where you are an example of someone who prioritises and honours themselves, giving and serving others from a full-cup and unconditionally
Creating space to express yourself creatively from an aligned, authentic place
This transformation is within your reach as you flow through this course. Through accessible and sustainable shifts you will create spaciousness, presence, awareness, nervous system regulation, and call in more flow into your life.
It is in the small but constant shifts and changes that lies the most expansive transformation.
This Course is for You if:
You have many roles and demands placed in life and professionally
You often feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities and long for more time for yourself
You experience emotional exhaustion and are seeking ways to manage stress effectively
You wish to integrate rituals and self-nourishment into your daily routine without sacrificing other priorities
You wish to slow down and connect more with your body and inner rhythms
You want to live a life more aligned with who you are in essence, in your heart
You want to create more space for what truly matters, including fostering your creativity
You feel stuck in your mind, tend to ruminate limiting thoughts, and may find yourself: people pleasing, comparing and / or criticising others
You struggle with feelings of guilt and anxiety
You are eager to strengthen your relationships and enjoy quality time with loved ones
You are ready to invest in your well-being and embrace a life filled with presence, clarity, alignment and vitality
Take the first step towards reclaiming your life and achieving the vitality and expansion you deserve!
Join this transformative journey and let me guide you in creating space for an aligned, thriving life.
I see you, juggling all aspects of life.
Perhaps you have a demanding and stressful career, you are working full-time and have so much being expected of you. Perhaps you are a mother, mother-figure or carer experiencing the joys and challenges of caring for another person. Perhaps you are a holistic therapist, a bodyworker, a somatic teacher committed to guiding others in their healing journey, providing transformative care that integrates mind, body, and spirit.
Yet, in your pursuit to nurture and support others, you often find yourself depleted, struggling to maintain your own well-being amidst the demands of your work and personal life. Juggling the roles of therapist, caregiver, and possibly parent or carer, you face the challenge of finding time for self-nourishment and balance.
What you’ll receive
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PACE: a 4-step anchor tool that will be your daily + weekly prompt for accessible, sustainable, long-term self-nourishment
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Over 2 hours of video content divided into 20 short videos exploring elemental rituals and practices such as breathwork, somatics, voice activation, self-massage, belly wrapping, traditional lunar belt making, plant medicine making, cacao ceremony, and more
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2 in-depth e-books exploring the menstrual cycle and cyclical living (over 90 pages with digestible chapters)
4 PDFs with step-by-step instructions and information on the natural medicines shared
About your guide
Marina Stumpf is a physiotherapist, an intuitive artist, an embodied teacher of intentional and cyclical living, a medicine woman and herbalist, a mother. She is deeply passionate about supporting women to reconnect with and nourish their bodies, intuition and heart, reclaim their inner wisdom and live a life that is aligned to their values and who they are in essence.
Marina holds and co-creates circles and ceremonies for self-inquiry, remembrance and deep transformation. Marina will meet you where you are and guide you as you return to your home-essence, most truthful Self.
Marina’s background
Marina holds space in a holistic and trauma-informed way, drawing equally from traditional indigenous practices, neurosciences and arts. Multi passionate and a forever student of Life, being-becoming on Earth. In astrology: Virgo Sun and Mercury, Libra Rising and Venus, Leo Moon. In HD: Manifesting Generator.
Marina has worked as a physiotherapist for 15 years, guiding people to move through and overcome challenges and limitations to deeply transform despite significant life events. Marina has extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of neurosciences (movement, the brain / spine / nervous system), temporomandibular (the jaw), respiratory (the breath), women’s and pelvic health.
Beyond her Physiotherapy career, Marina has invested countless hours exploring several somatic and intuitive movement practices, completed countless courses and trainings in the fields of Kundalini, Tantra, Stoicism, non-dual yoga and philosophies in general, with a particular focus on somatics, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, meditation, breathwork, mantra and mudra.
Marina comes from a family of folk herbalists and has trained as an herbalist herself, informing the natural medicine-making practices she offers in her sessions and content. Marina is also a medicine woman, having been initiated in several traditional medicine and spiritual practices of indigenous Brazilian, Mexican, Mayan, Egyptian lineages and beyond. Marina is also a student of animism and deep ecology, all which are the foundation for the earth spirit rituals and plant meditations and experiences she offers.
Marina completed extensive trainings in Herbalism and Cyclical living for women and people with wombs, and has been living cyclically and observing her inner rhythms for over 10 years.
Marina’s creative explorations are endless and ever-changing, with dance, contact improvisation, writing and pottery being constant ones. Marina worked as a professional contemporary dancer from her teens to her early 20s, and has explored intuitive and ritualistic movement since. Marina has been a storyteller and writer (poetry, prose, spiritual writing, journalling) since her childhood. Pottery entered her life when she was pregnant with her first child in 2019, when she started to create ceremonial pieces for her in-person offerings.
What others have shared about Marina’s offerings
"I have felt so out of myself and today helped me come back home."
Beth
“I have a very hard time switching off and arrived (at the session) with a million thoughts and a stiff and sore body and the first 30mins still felt very wired and then something happened and my mind and body both cleared for the first time in a very long time! I can't remember the last time I felt that calm, It was very special and magic and I'm so so grateful.”
Ash
“Marina is a beautiful guide and soul energy who is incredibly adept at healing, guiding and facilitating. She was willing to open me up, listen and then take my hand and hold with me during some painful moments. Being held and witnessed in my pain was one of the most powerful things Marina did for me. Incredibly grateful and humbled to have experienced Marina's healing energy.”
Kiri
"Marina has such a gift for guiding through visualisations, meditations, connecting to the deep deep layers. All of it was beautiful, the cards, the breathwork, the singing together. I made another payment as it did not seem like enough exchange for me."
Mel
"Just resurfacing again after a most transformative and healing session. I just had no idea that this connection and momentum can happen in such a short time... and didn't really know what to expect. But it feels my path has just cracked open again or the mist has cleared a bit for me to see the direction, and this is just such a profound feeling. Thank you for the talent and gifts you possess, and your kindness."
Alice
"This morning felt like a dawn of a new sense of self for me. Since our session I feel like there has been quite a bit of shedding of identity (I also started bleeding yesterday) so a lot of letting go... Whilst infused with the beauty of the rose and the openness of my heart. I truly am so grateful for the space you created in the session, the beauty of the altar, the intuitive way you curated the session, the way you held my stories with love and the beautiful visualisations. Your sense that I have been carrying a lot on my shoulders feels very true... I actually got the message to go to the chiropractor the next day."
Anna
"Marina, I can't thank you enough. Tuesday afternoon was more special than I could ever have imagined. The space you created was so welcoming - the room was filled the kind of warmth you feel deep inside. The whole time I felt like I was being held by your sacred hands. During the closing an energy moved through me, followed by a sense of calm. I feel a chapter in my life is complete and I can now look back at it with the fondness it deserves. What you created for me felt like magic and it's a day I will remember forever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Ps i have scheduled some evening time to myself to try the pelvic steaming this week"
Phoebe
"... it was the most special and deep ceremony I have ever experienced. The space you held really helped me go deep and feel a depth of presence."
Kaela
"Thank you for this enriching experience. I was called to release and let go of fear. I also felt called by my female ancestors, I definitely felt their presence and have struggled in the past to see all of them clearly. I have potentially seen a few of them as weak. But the realisation was that I come from a long line of STRONG and powerful women and it helped me to see that fear & weakness in myself"
Kiri
"Spirit was palpably present in a precious and sacred sense of healing and ONENESS. We are all connected across time, space and geography. How blessed am I"
Marie
"In searching for answers for my hormonal disorders, amenorrhea and with the intention to conceive in the near future, Marina guided me into a holistic journey through cyclical awareness, plant and shamanic medicine, which grateful helped me find my way back into balance. Over a few consultations and with the support of flower essences, I gained a greater understanding of the flow I needed to call into my life to be healthy and in harmony (mind and body, past - present - future). Marina conducts her healing sessions in an organic way, inviting the woman to observe and heal themselves as a whole, healing not only the dysfunctions, but also accessing and addressing the root cause. Her healing session is authentic and intuitive, accessing ancestral aspects and supported by nature and spirit, plant medicine, among other particularities, to bring about the improvement sought. It is a dive into our own depths, for greater understanding and respect for ourselves, with the clear and beneficial outcomes we hope for.”
Giovana