Natural Embodiment through Wild Connections

This 4-day workshop deepens your personal connection with nature. It’s a chance to soften and lean into the living world. A chance to embody your relationship with nature and life, in a way that’s meaningful to you.

Therapists and others who work with people need self-care. And restorative practices are especially important when working with trauma.

Nature & the nervous system

The benefits of time in nature are not only intuitive, but long documented. And the results show that spending time in nature can be a powerful way to heal the wounds of trauma.

Exposure to nature:

• reduces cortisol (your stress hormone)
• increases parasympathetic activity (your “rest and recharge” mode),
• increases alpha wave activity (your calm but alert state),
• which in turn increases serotonin (your ‘feel good’ hormone).

These responses calm and focus the mind, and support trauma healing. Feeling a connection with nature, in particular, grows your psychological resilience. And spending time in nature enhances your connections with people.

Embodied connection

This is an opportunity to be with the elements and the creatures of the forest.
Learn to listen with your whole body.
Let yourself slow down enough to feel the pulse of your instincts and intuition.
Experience your embodied place as part of every living thing.

Integrating Nature

Learn the ways that Nature can be a co-facilitator.
Learn how the elements of Nature can support resourcing work .
Build practical skills.
Deepen understanding through experiential learning.