There are places in the South where the land feels different. Where the forest becomes quieter, the body begins to soften and something deeper can be heard.

You do not need to have a deep connection with nature already. You might simply be curious about spending time in the forest differently. Or you may already feel called to work much more deeply with the land, the elements, nature spirits, ancestral wisdom and the Great Mother.

I have spent more than a decade working with the land through environmental work, nature connection and spiritual practice. I have studied the geology and landscapes of Southland deeply and have developed a particular relationship with the places I work. I choose locations carefully, considering the character of the land, the elements, the water, the forest and what I intuitively feel is appropriate for the person I am holding.

In 2022, I experienced a profound communion with the Pourakino and Longwood Forest ranges that changed my relationship with the land permanently. Since then, my work with nature has continued to deepen.

This is not a hike or a conventional nature experience.

It is an opportunity to slow down enough to meet the land, and yourself, differently.

The Spirit of the Forest is also a spiritual experience in the fullest sense of the word. I work with the forest as a living presence, not simply a beautiful backdrop. I work with the energy of place, the elements, water, trees, stone, the unseen and what I understand as the spirit of the land. The land communicates. There are places that carry a particular intelligence, memory or medicine. Sometimes the work is about walking into the forest and allowing yourself to be met by it. Sometimes it becomes a much stranger and more beautiful experience of communion, where the boundaries between self, nature and spirit begin to soften. This may sound unusual to some people. It is unusual. It is also a genuine part of my spiritual practice and the work I have been called to do with the land. I don't ask anyone to believe anything. I create the conditions for you to experience your own relationship with the living world and discover what happens when you become quiet enough to listen.

Come into the forest and remember that you are not separate from it. You are nature. You are body, instinct, desire, rhythm, death, regeneration, creation. There is an ancient part of you that does not need to be fixed, explained or made more acceptable. It wants to be felt. It wants to move. It wants to speak. It wants to return. The forest is a place where we can listen for that voice again, and where the known world can become quiet enough for something much older to emerge.

We may walk slowly through the forest, sit beside water, work with the elements, become aware of sensation in the body, explore what is arising emotionally or energetically, or simply become still enough to listen.

For some people, the experience may be gentle and grounding.

For others, the forest becomes a doorway into much deeper work: releasing shame, moving through grief or change, reconnecting with the body, exploring feminine or womb consciousness, working with symbolic or spiritual experience, or entering a significant period of death and rebirth.

I hold the space carefully and without judgment. There is no expectation that you need to perform, explain or produce a particular outcome. The land itself becomes part of the process.

My spiritual understanding of nature includes relationship with the elements, the energy of place and what I experience as nature spirits or the intelligence of the living landscape. You do not need to share my way of understanding this work. You are welcome to encounter it through your own experience.

The intention is simple: to create enough space for something true to emerge.

Earth Embodiment™ is the framework I have developed through years of working with the body, nature, energy, creativity and spiritual transformation. It is an invitation to come out of the purely mental experience of being human and back into direct relationship with the body and the Earth. To feel rather than constantly analyse. To listen to sensation, instinct, movement, desire and the subtle intelligence of the body. To remember that we are not separate from the natural world. The body is of the Earth. We carry its rhythms, its cycles, its capacity to shed, regenerate, create and become. Through Earth Embodiment™, I work with the body as a living vessel of knowing and with the natural world as part of the transformational process. It is not about escaping the body to reach something spiritual. It is about discovering the spiritual through inhabiting the body and the Earth more completely.

1 hour · $333 NZD
2 hours · $444 NZD
3 hours · $555 NZD

These are private experiences in Southland.

The location is selected according to the nature of the experience and may vary depending on what we are working with.