Meet Wren Polansky, MA:

Support for your deeper unfolding.

Empathic witness, dynamic guide, steady companion.

Wren creates and holds space for you. She is trained in both Eastern and Western Psychology and has worked in hospitals, recovery centers, and private practice as a psychotherapist. Somatic Experiencing, a multidisciplinary healing methodology, deeply informs her current approach.

Somatic Experiencing Training Int I 2025 / Somatic Healing Immersion 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 in retreat at Shambhala Mountain Center in the Colorado Rockies, and trained with teachers including: Reginald Ray, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and Fleet Maull. She has been teaching 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 studying Richard Hittleman’s 28-day Yoga Plan in the privacy of her teen bedroom. She trained with Roger Cole, Richard Rosen, Baxter Bell, Ann Dyer, and others. She resided long term at Mount Madonna Yoga Center surrounded by tall oaks, pines, redwoods and bizarre concrete monkey sculptures. She has taught in studios, hospitals, schools, community centers and teacher trainings for over twenty years.

Piedmont yoga advanced yoga studies program and teacher certification 2008

Earth lover.

As a fifth generation Californian, Wren works to honor the beautiful place she calls home. She does this through ceremonial connection to native land and people as well as ongoing learning about the socio-cultural history and ecology of the region. An avid hiker, daily communion with the living world directly informs her work. 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.

  BA CUM LAUDE studio art, Scripps Women's College, Claremont, ca 1999

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.