Bridging the Gap Between Personal Development & Environmental Health
Welcome to marthernature.com, where environmental & personal health meet, where science & spirituality overlap, and where natural, preventative, behavioral, life-style based practices are shared for uplifting mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and environmental well-being. Here is where we walk the path toward individual self-mastery by connecting with the inner and outer worlds. Here, we are challenged to tune directly into our physical reality, including our personal energetic state, as a means for improving life on Earth. Here, we become a steward of ourselves as a way of learning how to become a steward of nature.
For this, @marthernature offers four services:
Guided nature tours, guided meditation, and coaching on movement & plant-based nutrition.
The best things about these practices? They are totally natural, and create health sovereignty. Nature immersion, meditation, physical fitness, and plant-based nutrition are behavioral practices that change our health from the inside out! These practices preventatively and post-operatively address many planes of health: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and environmental, and one aspect is never truly separate from another.
Meet your guide: Marther Nature. She has a Bachelor's of Science in Biology from Furman University, 2014.
Nature Tours: With her degree, Martha has worked many nesting seasons in sea turtle research & conservation, and guided eco-tours on boat, kayaks, & at public parks to educate people about the biodiversity of Sarasota Bay. She has worked with teams to enhance water quality through reef ball research and clam population restoration. Martha has guided people of all ages through nature, including school children on their field trips, who are eager to visit a local park and learn about birds, water quality, plants, and the strange animals of subtropical, estuarian systems. She is a certified open water SCUBA diver, and has been certified in CPR/First Aid three times. Although much of Martha's work has related to the conservation of non-human animals, she has realized that if people are not in a good state of personal health, they are less likely to positively contribute to or care about the environment around them. Which brings us to the other offered services, relating to biology and human health:
Meditation first entered Martha's life in October of 2018. After experiencing diagnosed PTSD, she found herself in a mental rut of trauma and negativity. Finally, after sending out a message for help, Vajra Darshan (annointed Buddhist monk) offered her guided meditations based on practices from Mahajrya Buddhism. Immediately, the meditations began rewiring her mind and heart. She spent years untying tangled energetic chords and rewriting her subconscious, and, seven years later, has completed the Master Level of the Kuji-In (9 Chakra) practice, which includes Sanskrit mantras, visualizations, key words and concepts, and mudras (hand positions) for each of the 9 chakras percieved through the tradition. Being able to practice Buddhist philosophy with a background in biology has given Martha a unique perspective on the practice of meditation and its benefits to mind, heart, body, and spirit. Some of the other masters who have influenced & inspired her continued work in meditation include Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, Dr. Bradley Nelson, & Paramahansa Yogananda. Martha has guided meditation classes, special event settings, and one-on-one over the phone or in-person appointments.
Movement has played a crucial role in Martha's development, beginning with gymnastics in 2nd grade. In high school, she played volleyball, basketball, and track, earning seven All-State awards and three state championship titles. Martha then went on to play five years of Division 1 sports in the Southern Conference, at Furman University (Confernce Champs, 2014). After so much intense training, bicep tendonitis, injured lower back, and chronic adrenal fatigue set in. This is when Martha's relationship with regenerative training was born. Yoga practice reset the body, and now, she combines yoga flow, body weight movements, and interval training in nature to cultivate a balanced form that is deeply connected to the mind, heart, spirit, and environment.
Finally: plant-based eating.The most powerful relationship we have with our environment is that which we take from it and put into our gut (epigenetics). How can we use the food we eat and water we drink to become daily medicines that boost our immunity and vitality? Martha became vegetarian in 2019 for philosophical, spiritual, and environmental reasons before fully transforming to plant-based vegan for health reasons in 2022. She has used plant-based methods to decalcify the pineal gland, detox from heavy metals and parasites, and activate the light body. Martha now holds three plant-based nutrition certificates (Plant-Based Vegan Nutrition Certification, Alkaline Diet Certification, Vegan Nutrition Health Coach Certification).
Depending on which categories you are most interested in, an experience with Martha can be curated to suit your individidual or group needs.
