Inner Nature Pathway

A range of in person and online courses and workshops that explore our deep connection to nature and love of our environment.

Each course is interconnected and yet independent where participants can combine their own personal pathway with a nature path to create a personalised inner nature path.

Mindful Nature Pathway Program

An 8-week experiential online journey to help you develop mindful awareness, connectedness to nature, and a more balanced way of living.

This program is a unique collaboration between mindfulness and nature practice facilitating presence, connection, and embodied awareness through relationship with the natural world. It’s primarily a personal journey of exploration that will shift our attention to a new way of living that prioritises health, interconnection and nature towards finding greater well-being and peace.

Mindful Nature Pathways is not about mastering techniques, but about cultivating relationship – with your senses, your breath, your inner landscape, and the living world around you. It offers a gentle, grounded pathway back to presence, resilience, and authenticity, inviting you to walk more consciously, compassionately, and creatively within the web of life.

Introduction – FREE mindful nature connection course
Wk 1: Connecting to Nature – Awakening the Senses
Wk 2: Nature Connectedness – Grounding and Breathing
Wk 3: Connecting to Nature’s Rhythm – Flow and Movement
Wk 4: Challenging Connections – Recognising Mind Storms

[*Also available as a five-day in-person retreat in Scotland]

Wk 5: Connecting to the Space – Allowing and Letting Be
Wk 6: Connection and Disconnection – Passing Thoughts
Wk 7: Nourishing and Flourishing – Compassionate Action
Wk 8: Connecting to your true nature – Following the heart path

Elemental Wisdom

Elemental Wisdom is an invitation to remember an ancient way of knowing – one that listens deeply to the land, honors the elements, and recognizes nature as a living teacher. This course offers a grounded yet soulful exploration of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air as pathways to personal insight, healing, and transformation.

Elemental Wisdom is not just a course – it is a remembrance. A return to relationship with the living world and with your own elemental nature, guiding you toward balance, insight, and a deeper sense of belonging within the web of life.

Week 1 Introduction to Elemental Wisdom

Nature communication – learning the language of the land
Signs and messages that nature gives us
Speaking and listening to the land through metaphors
Indigenous wisdom, connecting to your nature parents and land
Ecotherapy and nature wisdom

Week 2 Water Consciousness – the Element of water

Water routines and rituals to purify, heal and connect to nature
Different methods of using water in mindful nature practices
The language of water, flowing and still water as energy
The consciousness of water as fluid intelligence
How to use water sustainably

Week 3 Phoenix Rising – the Power of Fire

The power of fire to transmute and transform
How to work with fire and phoenix energy in nature
Where are you at – Burning, Ashes or Rising?
The 5 As – Key Phoenix themes for this time
Transitions and sorting your stuff- Working for your wings

Week 4 Earth wisdom – The nature of Earth

The science of earthing – ways to boost your immune system
Opening up the senses with herbs
Giving offerings to the earth
Connecting to your spirit animal
Fruits of the earth – opening to Cacao wisdom

Week 5 Winds of change – Air power

Working with the element of air
Using your own wind through breath, to bring change
Transitions before transformations – Liminal space and the in-between
The dreamtime – Cloud and sky watching
Watching and listening to birds – messengers of the air

Nature By Design

Nature by Design is an exploration of how nature’s intelligence can shape the spaces we live in, the choices we make, and the lives we design. This course bridges science, creativity, and ancient wisdom to help you align your environment and inner world with the natural patterns that support health, flow, and sustainability.

Nature by Design invites you to move beyond decoration or strategy and into relationship – with nature, with space, and with yourself. It is a course for those ready to design a life that works with nature, rather than against it, and to live in greater harmony with the intelligence that surrounds and lives within us.

Week 1 Biophilia and Biophilic Design

Biophilia: Our innate nature, our inner being
Nature inspired spaces: The art and design inspirations
Natural elements V built environments: enhancing Wellbeing
The 7 principles of design
The language of Nature’s colours

Week 2 Biomimicry – the Genius of Nature

Key concepts in nature: Learning from nature’s wisdom and creativity
Creating conditions conducive to life: The 6 life principles of biomimicry
The different levels, functionality and sustainability of nature
Nature’s Models, Mirrors, measures and mentors
What would a tree do? Using biomimicry to coach ourselves and others

Week 3 Designing a Harmonious life

Feng Shui: the art of placement
Natural harmonies: Creating flow and harmony in your life
You are where you live: Using the Bagua for healthier living
Negative spaces and cures: making conscious choices
Space clearing: clearing and enhancing for more energy

Week 4 Signposts, Symbols and Shapes

Nature’s principles of harmony
A new way of seeing: The Language of the invisible world
Recognising key patterns and forms in nature
Murmuration: reading the patterns in your life
Creating meaning from what you experience

Week 5 Permaculture and Perma-coaching

Thinking like an Ecosystem: The principles of permaculture
People and permaculture: Creating your Personal design process
Pathways to sustainability: From permaculture to perma-coaching
Our internal landscape: Zoning and sectoring our life
Composting the old to create new life

Coaching with trees

Coaching with Trees is a deeply immersive exploration into the wisdom of trees and forests, inviting you into a living relationship with these beings as both teacher and guide. Rooted in mindfulness, ecological awareness, and intuitive connection, it offers a pathway into presence, where learning unfolds not through instruction or techniques alone, but through direct experience, listening, and embodied practice.

As you explore how trees live, communicate, and support one another, you’ll uncover insights into your own patterns of growth, resilience, and belonging. Connecting with trees as living beings, with the forest as a collective intelligence, and with your own inner landscape. you will begin to rediscover a way of being that is slower, more attuned, and deeply interconnected.

Week 1. Coaching with Trees – Foundations of Relationship and Presence

Entering into awareness, listening, and the language of trees as teachers

Trees as mentors: metaphors and models for coaching
How trees live and communicate: interconnection and ecological intelligence
The practice of deep listening: being with the heartbeat of trees
Somatic grounding: “rooting” and “branching” practices
Nature journaling & reflection: mapping inner experience

Week 2. Connecting with Your Tree — Personal Relationship & Inner Landscape

Developing a meaningful, ongoing relationship with a tree as a mirror and guide

Meeting your tree: intuitive selection and building a relationship
The meaning of your tree: symbolism, personal resonance, and reflective inquiry
Connecting with the “mother tree”: nourishment, belonging, and unseen connections
Seasonal awareness: how your tree changes, and your own cycles
Personal ritual & practice: creating simple, repeatable ways to connect

Week 3. Connecting with the Forest — Community, Systems & Shared Wisdom

Expanding from the individual to the collective intelligence of the forest

The forest as a living community: the 4Cs
The language of the forest: sensing, pattern, rhythm, and relationship
Forest bathing & embodied presence
What trees teach us about community living and climate awareness
Group connection: shared reflection, holding space, and the collective field

Week 4. Embodied flourishing — integrating and Sharing the Practice

Bringing the learning into coaching, daily life, and ongoing relationship

Daily dosing with trees: working one-to-one with the presence and energy of trees
Facilitating group experiences: walking, sensing, and guiding others in woodland spaces
Translating insight into everyday life and practices for resilience
Working with change: seasons, transitions, and “composting” life experiences
Integration & continuity: roots, fruits and flowers

Mindful Nature Kids Program

A 30-week course for teachers to teach children from grades 1-6 exploring mindfulness and the environment. The curriculum covers the key elements of mindfulness, awakening the senses, animals and insects, relationships in nature, neuroscience and functions of the brain, ocean life, climate awareness, arctic circle, kindness and happiness.

Here’s what’s inside the Mindful Nature Kids Program: