"Tree Spirit"

Rediscovering your Natural Awareness
with Katheryn Hope & Dan Thomson-Mills

A weekend to sustain you, awaken the senses and restore the magic of your life.
Learn how to develop and expand your senses in Nature to have a deeper and richer experience of your relationship with yourself and your natural environment.

Tree Experience - have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a tree, planted in the earth, home to many creatures yet rooted all your life as you watch the world go by? This wonderful experience will really give you an incredible awareness of the life of a tree and is profoundly touching.

Tree Qualities - Learn about and experience the healing qualities, energies and wisdom of the wonderful tree world and its amazing variety.

Practical Skills - Discover the practical uses of trees: wild food, medicine, fire-making, crafts, etc. Have a go at some of these useful skills your self.

Natural Creativity - Allow the beauty of the woods to inspire you to create poetry, art, and objects of beauty in group activities. You will be guided to see and feel your surroundings in a different way and go home with new creative inspiration that you can take into your every day life.

Meditation in Nature - Develop your innate senses in nature and take a magical journey into your own being connecting with the beautiful plant kingdom. Commune with nature to receive answers to life questions.

Meet a Tree - would you like to expand and use your own innate natural senses to connect with the wild? This fascinating activity allows you to really have an experience of the tree spirit and create a relationship with it which will never be the same again.



Evening Gathering - Bond with your new friends around the campfire, telling stories, making music, singing and relaxing around the warmth of the fire. We will come together after the days' events and have a delicious meal of fresh organic food and share our experiences.

Facilitators:

Dan Thompson-Mills:

Dan is passionate about the outdoors, wildlife and nature awareness, and just as passionate about passing on that enthusiasm and love of nature to others. He has been living and working at Steward Community Woodland in Devon for 9 years. Steward Community Woodland is a sustainable, eco-community based in a 32 acre mixed woodland. He lives in a self-built low impact dwelling, managing the wood, growing food organically, and generating renewable energy. He has been working with groups of adults and children for several years, passing on skills in nature awareness, bushcraft, campcraft, rural craft, storytelling, and Earth Wisdom. Dan trained with Trackways (based in Sussex), Wildwise (Devon), and Devon Discovery amongst others.

Katheryn Hope:

Katheryn loves creating a space for people to be, to take a moment just to allow...to pause and feel the silence and discover what it contains. She has a desire to bring magic back into this world and to share and extend it, not to capture it, but to call it back from our dreams, from our sub-conscious, from myth and story, and from the realms we do not normally inhabit and make it once more a part of our world. She has a deep love of nature and beauty and the scenery of rural Devon where she lives takes her breath away. This has inspired her to paint mythical pictures in acrylic and oil. She has many years experience in a variety of therapies and practices and as a teacher and has intuitively brought together diverse elements incorporating her background in nursing, a First Class degree in Media and Communication Studies, training in Holographic Repatterning, Shamanic education, her writing and poetry. She trained with ‘The Warrior in the Heart,’ ‘Flower of Life’ amongst many others.

Cost £170 per person including evening meals.
Friday evening until Sunday afternoon.
Bring camping equipment and your own food.