About Me

I am Rivi Marcus, a grief-informed practitioner dedicated to supporting individuals through loss, life transitions, and emotional healing. My approach is compassionate, grounded, and heart-centered, offering a space where you can move at your own pace—exploring what is here and gently reconnecting with yourself.

Over the years, this work has taken shape through the people and communities I’ve walked alongside. I’ve supported individuals and groups in times of transition—holding spaces for grief, ritual, and re-connection through embodied and earth-based practices.

I previously served as Program Manager at The Joanna Macy Center, where I co-facilitated experiential trainings rooted in The Work That Reconnects, working with diverse groups and meeting complex experiences with care and presence. I also work with Satyam, a joint Israeli–Palestinian organization, supporting spaces of connection, listening, and shared humanity.

My relationship with the land continues to inform my work—through farming and permaculture, and through a deepening practice of listening and connection with the land itself, learning the language of cycles, interdependence, and what it means to be in relationship.

Alongside this, my learning has been shaped by immersive spaces, including a five-month training journey with Francis Weller, ongoing engagement with anti-oppression work, and my studies at Naropa University, where a contemplative and experiential approach to my studies gave language to how I experience and relate to the world, shaping my understanding of presence, relationship, and interconnectedness. I have also studied Nonviolent Communication, and through living in community, learned the practice of meeting conflict with presence and care. These threads deepen how I listen, how I hold, and how I meet the complexity of being human in these times.

Through my practice, Rooted in the Heart, I offer a compassionate space for reflection, healing, and meaningful transformation.