Meet the Facilitators
Wendy and Mari are a mother and daughter team who have a karmic agreement to help others engage with life from a place of integrity, authenticity and compassionate Presence. They are both trained teachers and artists who are committed to their spiritual paths and to serving humanity.
Wendy Allen
Devotion to the One has been Wendy’s spiritual path for decades. This devotion has taken her on a deep healing journey which led to an M.A. in Counseling, with post-graduate work in Gestalt therapy. She has decades of experience as a psychotherapist and art therapist. Her intense spiritual quest led her to study for months in India at Oneness University. She worked for years as a Oneness trainer. She has studied intensely with numerous realized teachers such as Richard Miller, Guruji Atma Nambi of Tamil Nadu, Sri Ammabhagavan, and most recently, Sat Shree of New Dharma. Although retired, she remains active as a local spiritual teacher and professional artist. She created a Facebook group called Journey into Consciousness five years ago where she posts her spiritual commentaries and art.
Mari Crook
Mari discovered the healing power of the breath and of mindful self-compassion after leaving behind her work as an economic consultant in New York City and traveling to India for retreat in 2015. She is a certified educator and instructional designer who has led teaching teams and designed curricula grounded in mindfulness, inquiry and socio-emotional learning techniques. She is also certified in Shamanic Reiki and Usui Reiki (Level II), and she performs active meditation through intuitive abstract expressionist artmaking. She has been practicing breathwork and nondual meditation under the guidance of Kriya yoga instructor Lawrence Conlan for the past three years and has taken courses taught by Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach and Igor Kufayev. She considers her mother to be her greatest teacher.