Nature spirituality is the oldest practice in the world. Found in many forms, from Taoism to Druidry, from Wicca to shamanism, it reminds us that spirit is woven through every stone, tree, animal and season.

At its heart, nature spirituality offers ways to heal and grow through connection with the living earth and the unseen worlds. It teaches us to expand our awareness, to meet animal allies and spirit teachers, and to move in rhythm with the cycles of land, body and cosmos.

For many of us, the original connection with nature and the invisible web of energy and meaning has been frayed or forgotten. Quantum physics is only just beginning to glimpse what ancient traditions always knew: that everything is alive, interconnected, and communicating.

When we are cut off from this vital flow, it shows up as disconnection, loneliness and sometimes even chronic illness. The good news is that we can all return: the capacity to reconnect is innate. It doesn’t require special gifts, only a willingness to listen and remember.

At Wild Soul Centre, I offer simple yet profound ways to return to what I call participation consciousness: a felt sense of belonging with the web of life.

This begins not with travelling to distant places, but by waking up to your own magnificent body (yes, even when it hurts or feels limited), and from there, nurturing a conscious relationship with the land right where you are. Belonging can unfold the moment you shift your awareness to your breath, your senses, your feet on the ground.

I invite you to re-enter these connections through the rhythm of the seasons and the touch of weather, through encounters with the animals native to your home ground, through visiting local sacred sites of pre-Christian ancestors, and through listening again to the myths and stories rooted in your place.

I feel at home in most nature-based paths, as if they were different branches of the same great tree, each with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve first and foremost trained in shamanism, integrate Taoist principles in my Qi Gong teaching, and have also completed the first year of the Bardic training.

This path is active and embodied. It is for those who want to live as courageous co-creators with life, and who want to walk their talk, in mind, heart, and body. Practices may include energy hygiene, active dreaming, healing techniques, nature immersion, working with power objects, sacred art and ceremony. Qi Gong, too, born of Taoist nature philosophy, is a deeply shamanic practice too.

There is no need to ‘believe’ in anything. These explorations can stand alongside any worldview or philosophy, and they can be entered in whatever way you feel comfortable: through imagination, through sensory awareness, through meditation, or through expanded states of consciousness awakened by music, dance, and other substance-free techniques.