The Mindful-Nature Connection Programme

Both mindfulness and nature interactions are ancient practices that are known for their beneficial health and well-being effects. More recent research has shown that mindfulness can assist with improved attention, emotional regulation and self-awareness as well as depression and chronic pain. Nature experiences have been shown to increase energy and vitality, improve immune systems and promote life satisfaction and happiness.  

Latest neuroscience is also finding that by combining mindfulness and nature connection in a 'rewilding' holistic experience, there is a greater restorative effect on the mind and body, sharper sensory acuity, enhanced presence and connectedness and more positive mood.

How mindful-nature connection helps assist in improved health and well-being?

• Enhances your awareness of present moment reality, helping you to focus on the here and now rather than worry or anxiety. 
• Gives opportunities for restorative mental and physical experiences and practices that promotes overall health
• Gives tools in coping with stress and a sense of calm that are vital in this time of uncertainty and major change.
• Allows you to slow down and spend more time being instead of doing
• Deepens your natural, innate sense of well-being and fulfilment in life
• Create a new sense of purpose and meaning in life, empowering you to live in a more conscious way.

Mindful-nature connection gives a unique journey of learning, healing and growth to renew and re-vitalise your relationship to the natural world and to your own natural self, your deepest nature. We can enhance the relationship between humans and nature through creating a deeper awareness, expanding the connection through mindful presence and bringing a sense of care and compassion into our interactions

How mindful-nature connection helps develop a greater relationship with nature?

• Connects with the healing qualities of nature and it’s unique medicine
• Develops your awareness and appreciation of the richness of the natural world through immersion of the senses
• Helps you apply deep listening to the voice of nature and the answers that it gives
• Helps you rediscover and participate with more of what you see and feel going on around you in nature
• You become more present and grounded in the moment so you can more fully embrace nature’s gifts and how nature experiences itself.
• You understand nature’s grace in growth, expansion and renewal, it’s order amidst the chaos and its inner beauty and harmony 

In a world that can often bring feelings, situations and systems of disconnection, exploring mindful connection in life-affirming ways can alert us to how to live in greater harmony and consciousness with others. As a way of repairing the sense of separation and isolation that we often experience, mindful nature connection can promote a more profound reconnection with ourselves and others, deeper feelings of compassion and a beneficial relationship with the environment.

How mindful-nature connection helps develop a sense of belonging and connection?

• Shares experiences and ways to learn in nature, with others, through meaningful encounters and beautiful moments.
• Creates a space to deepen heart connection, undertake personal journeys and explore ways to reconnect
• Awakens the joy of connecting and developing relationships with others through embodied nature interactions and common purpose
• Brings a sense of belonging, interconnectedness and interdependence with nature 
• Creates partnerships with ecosystems and environmental causes. 
• You feel a greater sense of oneness and community with the natural world

Mindful nature connection courses are primarily personal journeys of exploration where practices and tools help us discover who we are, how we treat life around us, what we give and receive and how to connect in a deeper and more authentic way to our true nature -The heart path. By engaging in these beautiful practices in natural environments we can then shift the attention to a new way of living that prioritises health, connection and nature towards finding greater well-being and peace, environmental awareness and sustainable choices.

How mindful-nature connection helps develop a sense of environmental awareness and our place in nature?

• Creates awareness of both the fragility and resilience of nature when sharing a place with humans
• Demonstrates the way that nature acts as co-coach through being a mentor, metaphor and mirror
• Highlights right action that we can take to restore balance and harmony through pro environmental and conservation behaviour
• Shows how compassion and a sense of an ecological self leads to care for the environment and more supportive choices
• Awakens our perception to the possibilities of collective intelligence that leads to a more sustainable future