Meet Wren Polansky, MA:

Support for your deeper unfolding.

About Wren…

Empathic witness, dynamic guide, steady companion.

Wren creates and holds space for you. She is trained in both eastern and western psychology. Somatic Experiencing, a multidisciplinary healing methodology, deeply informs her practice.

Somatic Healing Immersion 2024  /  Somatic Experiencing Training Beg I-III 2024 / MA Counseling psychology, wright institute, berkeley 2008 / Graduate work in contemplative psychology, naropa university, boulder 2005

Compassionate, inquisitive parenthood support.

As a mother, Wren understands the challenge of raising children in our modern culture. With her second child, she experienced extensive medical and separation trauma. Through her own mother-grief recovery work she sought the support that had been missing. Her personal transformative journey with parenting coaching inspired her to formally train in the discipline. She now introduces other parents to a radical, seeker’s approach to parenthood so they may better know themselves and a family life of ease.

Purejoy Parenting for Professionals Certification 2023

Genuine mindfulness expert.

Wren’s longstanding awareness practice is central to her life. She was introduced to mindfulness meditation by her primary teacher, Shinzen Young, when she was fourteen years old. She resided long term at Shambhala Mountain Center in the Colorado Rockies, a rural spiritual retreat center. She has sat extensive residential retreat with Reginald Ray, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, among many others. She has been teaching yoga and meditation for over twenty years.

UCSD Center For Mindfulness MBSR Training 2009 /  Vipassana Support International Certified Mindfulness Instructor 2008

Hatha yoga instructor.

Wren began yoga asana practice by devouring Richard Hittleman’s 28-day Yoga Plan in the privacy of her teen bedroom. One of her first teachers was the Iyengar expert, Roger Cole. She studied with Richard Rosen, Baxter Bell, and Ann Dyer at Piedmont Yoga in Oakland. She fled the Bay Area congestion to reside long term at Mount Madonna Yoga Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains surrounded by tall oaks, pines, redwoods and bizarre concrete monkey sculptures. She has taught in studios, hospitals, schools, community centers and teacher trainings.

Piedmont yoga advanced yoga studies program and teacher certification 2008

Nature lover.

As a fifth generation Californian, Wren works to honor the beautiful place she calls home. She does this through professional, personal and ceremonial engagement with native people as well as ongoing learning about the socio-cultural history and ecology of the region. She is an avid hiker, valuing the power of the living world she shares with her clients. Through volunteering in the public schools she shares her passion for stewardship with the next generation.

Exploring Our Sense of Place program San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy 2024

Art therapist and educator.

Wren is passionate about open-ended art making, and discovery-based learning. She founded Creative Freedom Enrichment, a homeschool and after school program, trusting kids as free agents of creativity through art, music, science, and yoga. She was a teaching artist at the Museum(s) of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Diego, La Jolla, and Boulder, Colorado and the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, CA, in addition to public and private schools. She will offer public workshops at Pacific View Arts Center for the City of Encinitas in 2025.

Artist and illustrator.

As an artist, Wren works in a broad range of media. She collaborates artistically with LitvakDance and has illustrated six books for Shambhala Publications (see below). Click here for Visual Portfolio Selections.