Welcome!

Thank you for walking this path with me.

I’m Marina Stumpf.

An intuitive artist, a medicine woman, an herbalist, a physiotherapist, a circle holder, a mother. I am. Beyond any veils and labels I may identify with, I simply am.

Brazilian by birth, Italian by roots, Australian by love. A multicultural, multi-passionated woman, a student of ancestral wisdom traditions and neurosciences. My practices are integrative, trauma-informed, somatic and deeply restorative for the inner and outer ecosystems.

I hold and co-create sacred spaces for self-inquiry, remembrance, deep nourishment and transformation. I serve as a guide and a bridge, holding others as they navigate their way home to their true essence, supported by earth and spirit rituals and intuitive arts, ancient and modern practices.

The experiences I hold are guided by the initiations and traditional indigenous trainings and wisdom I have received, my lineage, upbringing, life experiences, personal studies and creative explorations.

They are also informed by my trainings as a herbalist, yoga teacher, and clinical knowledge as a critical and acute care physiotherapist with over 15 years of experience supporting clients during what is often the most traumatic and stressful time of their lives.

Acknowledgements

I deeply acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which I live, play, and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Boonwurrung people. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging, and recognise their profound wisdom, healing and caretaking of the land and the people. 

My deep gratitude to the indigenous first custodians of the medicines, practices and wisdom I share with permission, and the golden chain of teachers before me.

Qualifications and trainings include:

  • Bachelor of Physiotherapy 

  • Bachelor of Health Sciences

  • Masters of Physiotherapy

  • Bobath therapy (somatic practice; actively-facilitated efficient, effortless movement)

  • Temporomandibular therapy (jaw release and functional recovery)

  • Women’s health - pelvic education (pre and postnatal, post-operative)

  • Shiatsu Yin Yoga teacher

  • Advanced Breathwork teacher (Tantrik lineage)

  • Acupuncture + moxibustion training

  • Tantrik, Hatha and Yin Yoga trainings (focus on yoga philosophy, mythology, pranayama, meditation, mantra, mudra, yoga for women, restorative yoga)

  • Certificate in Natural Gynecology and Flower Essences (South American plant essences) with Anna Sazanoff

  • Herbalism trainings

  • Traditional Healing Herbs for Postpartum

  • Medicine Woman and Shamanic Womb Leadership initiations

  • Cacao ceremonialist initiation (Guatemala - Mayan)

  • Basic Ayurveda for Women

  • Basic maternal nutrition, spagyrics, elemental herbalism, astro-herbalism

  • Traditional Reiki level 2

  • Reiki Maheo’o, Shamanic healing and Shamanic circles initiations

  • Women’s circle holder training

  • Empathic listening, non-violent communication, trauma-informed, compassionate inquiry and somatic trainings

  • Inner child healing, reconnected parenting

  • Basic astrology, astrocartography, human design

  • Intuitive writing guidance trainings

  • Professional background in contemporary dance, dance theatre and dance improvisations