Marlene Neumann Centre for Photography & Light

08/11/2025

Join Marlene Live Online for her Ancient Forest meditation - register online and a link will be emailed to you for Sunday night.

I'm inviting you to sit with me and feel the essence of the Ancient Kokerboom forest in Namibia. The Meditation 🧘‍♂️ was recorded while sitting in the actual forest.

Join my Live Online recorded Meditation — From the Ancient Kokerboom Forest ✨
FREE - This Sunday, November 9, at 06:30 PM (SAST) for 60 minutes join me for a sacred online meditation as we draw wisdom from one of the world’s most ancient and awe-inspiring forests — the Kokerboom (Quiver Tree) Forest of Namibia.
These magnificent elders have stood for hundreds of years, rooted in stone and silence, thriving in the harshest desert landscape.

Together, we will connect to their timeless strength — learning to stand tall through life’s challenges, to find stillness amid the rocky ground, and to draw deep reserves of courage, balance, and centeredness.

Let the spirit of these wise beings remind you: even in barren places, beauty endures, and light always finds a way through. Come and have this unique experience.

🪷 Live Online Gathering — Sunday
Breathe. Ground. Remember your own resilience.

To join this live meditation and receive the Zoom link see the comments.

Love Marlene

06/11/2025

Join Marlene this Sunday for her Live Ancient Forest Meditation.
Register and receive your link for our Live Online Meditation on Sunday
https://thevoiceofnature.net/meditation-circle/

05/11/2025

Join Marlene online this Sunday for her Ancient Forest Meditation.
Register online https://thevoiceofnature.net/meditation-circle/ - join and receive the Zoom link for the live meditation.

I'm inviting you to sit with me and feel the essence of the Ancient Kokerboom forest in Namibia. The Meditation 🧘‍♂️ was recorded while sitting in the actual forest.

Join my Live Online recorded Meditation — From the Ancient Kokerboom Forest ✨
FREE - This Sunday, November 9, at 06:30 PM (SAST) for 60 minutes join me for a sacred online meditation as we draw wisdom from one of the world’s most ancient and awe-inspiring forests — the Kokerboom (Quiver Tree) Forest of Namibia.
These magnificent elders have stood for hundreds of years, rooted in stone and silence, thriving in the harshest desert landscape.

Together, we will connect to their timeless strength — learning to stand tall through life’s challenges, to find stillness amid the rocky ground, and to draw deep reserves of courage, balance, and centeredness.

Let the spirit of these wise beings remind you: even in barren places, beauty endures, and light always finds a way through. Come and have this unique experience.

🪷 Live Online Gathering — Sunday
Breathe. Ground. Remember your own resilience.

To join this live meditation and receive the Zoom link see the comments.

Love Marlene

04/11/2025

Gentleness, is it a strength or weakness ?

This is something I have grappled with my entire life... I understand that our childhood trauma and how we grew up has a lot to do with our sensitivity and our level of awareness. How much have we blocked out and how much have we shut down our hearts. Animals seem to be way more sensitive than us humans. They are more attuned to sounds, vibrations and they are one with their environment.

We humans cannot understand this oneness and what it means. We live in a world of separation. Me against you.

People believe their shields and guards they have built around themselves is a normal way of life. They wear their shields like trophies and call themselves tough.

This is precisely why humanity is not operating at its emotional capacity. There is a level of denseness amongst us where so few are doing the internal work in order to heal themselves. Why we are stuck repeating the same patterns over and over.

Most people plod on thinking this is their destiny and what they are dealt in life. There are layers to our emotional world. When we break through these we begin to feel part of the whole of Creation. Animals know this.

Some humans choose not to grow and to stay in their comfort zones, complain and repeat their old patterns.

The greatest gift you can give yourself as Socrates says, is to ' Know Thyself '.

Understanding our own behavior patterns is true freedom.

Being sensitive is being kind, caring, able to pick up on the feelings of others, aware of their needs, and behaving in a way that helps them feel good.

Gentleness is not a weakness.

It is strength refined — the quiet power that doesn’t need to prove itself.

Anyone can raise their voice, but it takes true courage to stay soft in a hard world.

Gentleness is the art of holding your ground without closing your heart, of meeting pain without adding more.

It is the calm hand that steadies the storm, the quiet presence that heals rather than harms.

To be gentle is to be powerful in the most human way.

Register for my 6 week, Online Creativity through photography workshop starting 5 March 2026 and learn the art of capturing gentleness through the lens of your heart !

Learn more, JOIN Creativity through Photography (see comments for link) AND receive FREE⭐ CAMERA BASICS 90 minute workshop. Move beyond your camera's auto settings.

In your FREE online 90 minute session you will learn how to use your digital camera's settings, how to compose and frame your shots and how to work with different lighting conditions.

Don't miss how you could be living your life, seeing the world through the eyes of Nature - with Marlene

03/11/2025

Join Marlene early next year for this life changing online workshop.
Starting 5 March - register online.

02/11/2025

Bundles are available here at Marlene's Centre.
Signed copies make perfect gifts!

Looking for a unique GIFT? Why not give one of my inspiring books.
"A Dance with Life" is filled with inspirational images and spiritual insights from nature.

"Sky Meets Land" has over 100 magnificent images accompanied by insights into Marlene's spiritual philosophy of life.

"Ebb & Flow" Marlene's inspiring early morning thoughts with captivating, soul-filled photographs.

"I have been through and paved many paths, learnt the lessons in this life and would like to share the gifts received from these." - Marlene Neumann

LIMITED OFFER - buy all three books - the bundle is R770 (excluding postage) - a saving of R210.
(link in comments)

It's a beautiful gift for someone that needs to know they are loved and supported ❤️

01/11/2025

Open over the weekend and every day during the week from 9 am.
Entrance is free.

27/10/2025

19/10/2025

You can buy your copy of Marlene's book Ebb & Flow at here gallery in Vincent. Pop in we are open every day from 9 am - 4 pm.

There comes a time in one’s life when you realise that whatever you are struggling with, the outcome has already been decided long before you reach a decision.
It’s then that you realise a higher power is at work and your role is to surrender.

Excerpt from my book EBB & FLOW
© Marlene Neumann

15/10/2025

Visit Marlene's galleries in East London - we are open every day from 9 am.

14/10/2025

7 days of calmness with Marlene Neumann helps you focus on calming your mind and body down in this busy season