MARLISE WABUN WIND

Marlise is an Author, a Counselor, a Lecturer, a Ceremonialist, a Wisdom Keeper, a Wife and a Mother.

Marlise Wabun Wind has been privileged to take a true “heroine’s journey” stepping out of the culture into which she was born to experience life from an entirely different worldview.

After receiving a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism she was a New York writer, working on understanding and changing her societal conditioning through spiritual and emotional searching.

In 1970 she met Sun Bear, a Native American teacher and visionary. For 24 years she was Sun Bear’s “servant of the medicine”. She wrote, travelled and taught with Sun Bear and helped him found a community of people of all races and backgrounds. She directed Bear Tribe Publishing, edited magazines, became a practitioner of Bach remedies, learned about herbs, read about mythology, and began to teach about female energy. In those years she met elders and teachers from all parts of the world.

She moved away from the community to devote more time to writing, although she continued to work with Sun Bear as a spiritual partner and co-author until his death in 1993. 

Marlise Wabun has lectured extensively about her cross-cultural experiences, women’s roles in various cultures, more humane systems of childbirth and childcare, comparative religions in their historical perspective, and about numerous other topics related to the earth, alternative living, and spirituality.

She began developing women’s circles in 1973 and began teaching her ideas about how we went from the worldwide peaceful, child and woman-loving matriarchal culture to the patriarchy that is predominant in the world now.

In the past few years, a number of her books published in Mandarin and in French, and she has taught a wide variety of courses, both in person and online, to a wonderful, growing group of younger people.