Join Catherine Cunningham, PhD naturalist, wildlife whisperer, and wilderness guide as we explore special nature sanctuaries within the Bay Area’s California Coastal Forest ecosystem. Gift yourself the opportunity to nurture your connection to nature and to remember your own true human nature. In the quiet forest-seashore-oak woodland landscape time slows, our senses awaken, our heart relaxes, and we can breathe in more deeply Nature’s healing life force.

Every nature excursion/immersion will feature: a moderate hike (3-mile/day average) from our Bay Area starting point and a special themed nature activation. Together, we will switchback up hidden local falls to the sacred headwaters, wrap around the glacially polished boulders down forest trails to iconic lakes and around the backside of oak woodlands, transverse creeks and wild grasslands, and peer over open vistas overlooking the Pacific Ocean and our rugged seashores.  We will explore the native flora and fauna and learn the bio-cultural heritage of the Indigenous Peoples who lived in these lands peacefully, sustainably for 1,000’s of years before settlement. We will honor their heritage and celebrate their stewardship and remember their life principles by acknowledging their presence and offering acts of gratitude during our excursion.  Finally, we will immerse ourselves in a sweet selection of sensory, soulful, social, strength-building, stress-releasing earthing and nature-inspired experiences to awaken our Natural Intelligence.

Come curious, awake, and open to new ways of walking in the world.