LIVING AWAKE & IN HARMONY WITH LIFE
The pain of feeling separate is not what is wrong with you. It is wholeness calling you back to what you already are.
Whether awakening is just beginning to stir in you, or you have already touched what you are and are learning to live from it, you are welcome here.
We are not separate from life, from one another, or from the living world we share with all creatures. To forget this is painful, and it is untrue. Most of us are feeling the cost of that forgetting right now, in ourselves and in the world. Our return to what we are matters, for us and for the planet.
Awakening is the first kiss, the recognition of the presence that has always been here. But recognition is not the end. The light has to come all the way down into a life, into the body, into relationship. Old patterns and old wounds are still operating unseen, and they need to be seen through. This is the embodiment work, and the heart leads it.
This is the territory I know well. I have walked this path myself and spent over two decades accompanying people on it. I have drawn deeply from many traditions, but I am not bound by any one of them, so I can follow what is actually alive in each person. My own path turned on learning to trust what I knew from within. That wisdom is already in you.
This realization has not taken me out of life. It has brought me more fully into it, vulnerability and imperfection included.
Each October I offer a week-long silent retreat in Crestone, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. You are also welcome to book a private session or join my monthly online gathering, and you’ll find many free recordings and writings here.
From the heart,
Susanne Marie
“Susanne Marie is a hidden gem. Not to you, because you’ve found her website. But to the many people trying to sort through the plethora of contemporary spiritual teachers to find one who is deeply realized, unpretentious, well-integrated, empathetic, and accessible. I hope more of them find her. Unlike actual gems, that won’t diminish her value. It will just spread the light, love, and wisdom that she has so genuinely uncovered within herself, which is why I started Buddha at the Gas Pump in the first place. I am often asked who I recommend, among all the people I’ve interviewed. I usually say that there are many wonderful people, and you should go with those with whom you feel an affinity, but then I mention a few who have become good friends. Susanne Marie is high on that short list.”
~ Rick Archer, Host of Buddha at the Gas Pump
“I came across Susanne after awakening. She has been one of the main guides and a source of grace in my life, guiding me through the terrain of awakened living into deeper and deeper states of realisation. I have come across only a few beings who are such a pure loving embodiment of grace. Her approach has been gentle and paced, intuiting where I am at along the journey and guiding me into the next stage. I am forever grateful for having her in my life”.
~ Matt Kay, Trauma Informed Educator, Australia