FROM SURVIVAL TO PRESENCE

Nature-based resilience and awareness practices

Living in “survival mode” keeps us on the surface: reacting to the day-to-day while feeling disconnected from nature, others, and ourselves.

Our inner world is a complex ecosystem where thoughts and emotions often crowd the space. Time in nature and mindfulness serve as grounding companions to help settle the nervous system. By quieting the noise, we create the clarity needed for small, meaningful shifts. When these ripple outward, they nurture the seeds of a more peaceful way of being that already live within us.

Upcoming events

Jan 8–11, 2026: Silent Winter Retreat

Four days of presence, movement, and renewal. A journey inward to cleanse your soul, restore your energy, and return to your true self.

1st April 2026: NatureMinded MBSR

8-week program to help you cultivate a mindfulness practice that supports every aspect of your life. Offering practical, evidence-based techniques to help you stay present, grounded, and connected in everyday life.

Join a Forest Mind walk on 22nd March

If you need a reason to get outside into nature, this could be it.
What to expect? Individual exercises done in a group to cultivate mindfulness,
sensory awareness and connection to nature, self and others.

What it’s like to work together

“Katrina’s calm guidance through a series of exercises helped me connect deeply with the forest and my own nervous system. I felt at home in the forest, and appreciated the various suggestions to listen with my feet, my breath, and other senses that often stay in the background when I normally walking through the forest. This type of medicine is my favorite: preventative, restorative, reflective. I come away a little softer than I was before.”

Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD

Environmental Philosopher and Public Health Scientist www.yogihendlin.com“

Katriina provided a thorough (online) presentation on Forest Therapy for our company to better understand the subject. The presentation seamlessly blended science and psychology principles to support the movement behind forest bathing. Katriina was lovely to work with; accommodating and had very insightful well thought out presentation prepared for us. Hope to learn more from her in the future.

– Liana Hutcheon; John Mini Distinctive Landscape (NY)

“Heel hartelijk bedankt voor je fijne en authentieke bijdrage van zaterdag. We kregen er ook veel enthousiaste en waarderende reacties op vanuit het publiek, speciaal over jouw stukje. Het raakte me dat je zo mooi onder woorden brengt en bevestigt van veel dingen die ik intuïtief aanvoel en ervaar. Het is mooi om dat op deze manier gedeeld te zien, en het ook te herkennen”.

-Virginie Platteau, Waerbeke webinar

“Sinds mijn deelname aan je workshop voel ik een nog grotere verbondenheid met bomen… merkwaardig!!!”

– Els