What do you feel standing at an overlook miles from town, silence and sky surrounding you, a turkey vulture catching an updraft over a sea of mountains?

     What’s it like to nestle in the roots of a huge tulip poplar, letting your back soften, watching the images that come as your mind settles, feeling a sensation that draws you to the part of you who knows how to be small with someone you trust?

     What happens when you lie on the ground, surrendering to gravity in a place you’ve grown to know deeply: each fallen tree, each protruding rock, the curvature of the hillside? What if you let the earth hold you?

     My true passion is to reconnect humans with our most essential place of nurturing, protection, play and homecoming: the natural world. For me, mountains, forests, rivers and deserts give me profound experiences of being truly alive. I feel so much gratitude for the living world, and I know, in the hidden recesses of our hearts, we all do.

     Our industrialized, indoor and screen-based culture leaves us more and more wanting for a true experience of life. Most of us don’t even really know what’s wrong most of the time. We just feel a vague sense of dis-ease, running on adrenaline, living as a character in the movie in our mind. For some of us it’s been generations since we directly contacted the sacredness in a leaf or spent time with a caterpillar. We’ve lost our sense of wonder, our sense of adventure, and our sense of moment-to-moment awareness of the living, growing, moving being that breathes all around us.

     In nature-based sessions, I guide clients to experience this deep presence with the world and with themselves. I find these interweaving processes easily inspire and inform each other. The more we pay attention inside the more we notice in the world, and the more we are drawn to wonder, beauty and expansion around us, the more we feel that same experience inside. It’s such a treat to hold a space where clients can access the superpower of the natural world to heal from trauma, isolation, depression and anxiety.

     When possible, sessions are held outdoors, and when not, outdoor homework is given, and the session is integrative of that solo nature time. My approach with sessions is always body-centered, mindfulness-based and deeply compassionate. I hope you’ll come join me in the woods :-).