The Time is Now to Develop Yourself

Given the large amount of change happening on this earth of ours at a macroscopic level with a major war at hand, a global pandemic, climate change, resource depletion and communities and people feeling alienated, now stands the time to connect with your roots and find your true self. Through harnessing and accessing your inner core/nature and wisdom, people and organizations thereby step more fully into themselves, and inspire a heightened harmony with nature’s rhythms that enriches ourselves and at a larger level regenerates our ecosystems and communities. To make these transformations lasting and capable of shifting larger societal systems, we must begin to consciously develop ourselves simultaneously at an individual, organizational & community level.

Naturefy encourages this process by serving as an individual and organizational development consultancy focusing on connecting people more fully with their inner nature and the great outdoors, building resiliency capacity to withstand change and intuitive development to bridge the gap between mind, body and spirit. At its core, Naturefy guides individuals, organizations and communities to understand and come into harmony with their true nature and the natural world we inhabit prompting cascading effects far and wide. This can take the form of:

• Experiencing nature in a deeper way to align with self, the planet and unleash one’s potential

• Building resiliency to withstand change, adversity and stand as capable and equipped leader

• Developing one’s intuition to connect with self and nature more fully

• Guided visualizations and intuitive readings to navigate your path

• Performing rituals to pay respect and cherish what has been, bring closure and invite the new

The overarching aim of Naturefy is to build individual and collective consciousness to enable our evolution on this precious earth we call home. There are four principles that guide this work:

My Journey to Here

Naturefy was founded by Marisa Gant, professional wilderness guide, spiritual life coach and health/wellness counselor. With years of experience in the business and holistic healing world in a variety of roles, Marisa founded Naturefy to guide and mentor individuals, businesses and communities to harness their true nature, connect with the sacred and live in greater accordance with nature’s natural rhythms and cycles. 

Bringing more than seven years experience working in the international development sector, leading business development, trade certification and operations at a variety of for-profits, non-profits & start-ups with varying experience managing business teams and projects. Marisa paralleled this business track with work in holistic health, wellbeing and wilderness guiding. She understands how to achieve results for the people she works with in a thoughtful, professional and graceful manner and in a way that brings about latent potential and harnesses resiliency. She has gotten to where she is today and continues to build upon and educate herself in the following ways:

• Ordained Reverend with intuitive skills and spiritual training, Two-Year Clairvoyant Training Program, Berkeley Psychic Institute

• 500 hour Ayurvedic Holistic Wellness Counseling Certificate, Kerala Ayurveda Academy

• Wild Woman Project Circle Leader Training, Wild Woman Project

• Master’s degree in Sustainable Business Administration (MBA), Presidio Graduate School (formerly Pinchot University)

• Change Agent Development School, Carol Sanford for over 8 years

• Reiki Foundation Training, The Reiki Training Program, Vedic Astrology Foundation Course, Kerala Ayurveda Academy & Elemental Space Clearing Course, Denise Linn

• Wilderness First Responder Certified (WFR) 80 hour training, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)

• Certified Interpretive Guide (CIG) 32 hour training, National Association of Interpreters

• Wilderness Tour Guide and Naturalist, Airbnb and Evergreen Escapes

• Environmental Leadership Senior Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program

• Co-Founder and Lead facilitator, Seattle Moon Circle for over a year. Previously a lead facilitator for a different Moon Group that met for 4 years.

• Co-Creator and Co-Facilitator, Grief Tending offering ceremonies and rituals to support people in tending, honoring and moving grief from their mind, spirit and bodies.

• Co-Founder and Co-Facilitator of Calm One, Calm All offering tools, resources, monthly group sessions and ongoing content to ground and nurture calm.

• Thinking Partner & Summit Producer, Regenerative Business Summit for October 2016 & September 2017

• Board Member, Rite of Passage Journeys from 2017 - 2019

• Spiritual Life Coach Certificate, Transformation Academy

All in all, Marisa holds spiritual and personal development as pivotal shaping forces in her life. She grew up highly sensitive and intuitive and from a young age began exploring Buddhism and later Taoism to better understand herself and the world. She received the label of dyslexia in her childhood, alongside a very smart and capable twin sister, which prompted her to persevere and demonstrate fearlessness in developing herself, a trait she has carried throughout her life and helps others nurture in their lives. An avid athlete by nature, she plays soccer regularly, dances, snowboards, runs and practices yoga. She also holds an immense reverence for nature with a desire for sharing this sentiment with others and has a heightened sense of adventure that she applies in trying new things and consistently challenging herself and others around her to grow.

Marisa believes we each bring unique gifts and intelligences to the world and that through spiritual and personal growth as well as deepening our connection to nature, we each hold the key individually and within groups to unfold and blossom so as to serve ourselves and the planet in beautiful and harmonious ways.

Discovering and Cultivating Your Intuition

Intuition is the bridge that connects your mind, body and spirit. There has never been a better time to grow it than now! With all the upheaval and storms as well as continued ambiguity we are experiencing during this global pandemic and transformative times, learning to tap into this instinctual process unlocks power and your inner compass to help guide you on your path.

Intuition is also a multi-dynamic aptitude that requires a holistic natural approach to developing and harnessing. There are foundational pieces that are important to get into place which allow for the appropriate setting for your intuitive self to be unlocked and fully blossom. While there are intuitive development exercises that anyone can explore and learn, to truly manifest an intuitive state of being requires a multi-faceted holistic approach to connecting your mind/body and spirit.

Naturefy stewards the connection to intuition in the following ways:

• One-On-One Intuitive Counseling/Coaching: offering a space to unearth one’s intuition, practice working with it and tools and resources to further your exploration. As we continue to live through ambiguous and tumultuous times, tapping into this reservoir from within will become even more necessary. You can sign up either for stand alone sessions or make a more dedicated commitment through embarking on a three month spiritual intuitive journey to delve into your intuitive side and sense of spirit that allows you to ascertain greater purpose and meaning in your life.

• One-On-One Intuitive Readings: Providing a clairvoyant perspective on what’s going on with you currently and giving you the opportunity to learn and equip yourself to become more fully embodied and healed. Readings/Healings/Clearings can focus on a specific life endeavor that you want clarity on or be general to the time period you find yourself in with life. A standard reading involves communication around each of your seven chakra’s, a past life that is front and center for you, a tarot card that more often than not encapsulates your reading and time at the end for any questions you’d like to present. What sets this experience apart from other intuitive readings involves the emphasis on co-creating the experience so that you come away having directed the reading and feel like you learned a new intuitive tool or two that you can begin applying in your life for perpetuity.

• Guided Visualizations: Many of us allow life to happen and get swept away with our to do lists and what is beckoning our attention in our day-to-day lives. However, we are active creators and visionaries in our life and it is a powerful undertaking to more purposefully and intentionally step into the role of curating our lives. Using the support of a guide, you can unbiasedly view a new undertaking you would like to manifest and through a guided visualization session take the steps to vision, get grounded in the vision, release any obstacles that may be getting in the way of that new undertaking and get spiritual support of spirit in bringing this vision into reality.