Treehouse Bodywork

15/08/2025

What if meditation could help you feel truly at home in the world? 🌿

When we develop a felt partnership with nature, something profound shifts. We stop feeling isolated and start sensing our place in the living tapestry around us.

This isn’t just pretty nature content - it’s about awakening ecological consciousness that transforms how we experience daily life. Stress feels lighter when you know you’re held by something larger. Decisions become clearer when you’re connected to wisdom beyond your mind.

After years of guiding transformative Nature Quests, I’ve created a way to cultivate this same awareness without leaving your life behind.

Rooted Awareness is my first 10-week online program - gentle, accessible, and designed to awaken your deepest sense of belonging.
Early bird enrollment is open ✨

https://www.clairevanderplank.com/rooted-awareness 🌱

📷 meditating dog to demonstrate how natural it is ☺️

28/12/2024

I hope everyone is having a lovely festive season!
Should you need an extra dose of relaxation and letting go (to balance all the partying and family time 😉), I've uploaded a Body Scan with Nature guided practice to Youtube.
https://youtu.be/aPw_H3iq5hI?si=XDJ9W3HX7rcnUPJK

It's designed to be done in nature and a bit different to progressive body scans you may have done before, like Yoga Nidra. In this one we consciously incorporate the energies of nature.

Give it a go and let me know how it goes for you! 🌿🪷

PS Yes I am here and open over the holiday season🙏

Guided Body Scan meditation with a twist.This practice is intended to be done in Nature, but otherwise you can use your imagination and visualisation and do ...

06/06/2024

The May Nature Quest wrapped up a couple of weeks ago (before the heavy rain hit, lucky them!).

It was a full complement of 6 questers, who really got to the 'heart' of the matter. Quite literally, in that the main theme that emerged was love, self-love, healing heart wounds from early life. And addressing those wounds by getting to the heart of that stuck and blocked feeling and fully embracing it with love; embracing the inner child with full awareness, presence, acceptance, and love.

It really is simple. The story doesn't matter. It's the full acceptance that can only come having the sensitivity and courage to truly feel what is in one's heart, and be, with all our being, in that place. There's something so magical about the quest and being alone with no distractions for four days; a magic that comes from stripping things down to their most simple and becoming aware of what is right in front of us. Thoughts become tiresome, and the energy it takes to maintain a story starts to feel pointless. So we’re left in a state of noticing and accepting what it is.

We can get to the heart of the matter, not in thought, but in feeling.

And that’s where transformation comes from.

Well done questers 👏👏👏
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PS Registration for the next Quest, September 7-15, is now open. Interest has been strong already so if you have been thinking about it, get in touch.

https://www.facebook.com/share/m6fQz35mtmqU8caM/

07/05/2024

📣 PSA I’ll be away for the upcoming Nature Quest May 18-26 so not available for bookings during that time 🌿

11/04/2024

The focus this week is Heart. Which is both a consequence of the unfolding of the development of presence and relaxation (the focus of the last 2 weeks) as we tune our awareness to nature, and also something that we focus on in our meditation practice to deepen our felt sense of connection and develop our awareness in a well-rounded way 🧡

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04/04/2024

The focus for this week’s meditation in nature session is focus & presence, possibly the principle most commonly associated with meditation 🌞
This module is all about allowing your attention and awareness to sink deeper and deeper into the present moment. In nature, this is very much about using our senses as the doorway, and we can discover a lot of beauty and wonder along the path.

If you would like to join us in Boo park this week, register (free) via the link in the event page! 🌿

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29/03/2024

Happy Easter everyone!
If you don’t happen to be away this weekend and want to give yourself some tlc, I still have spaces available on Monday ☺️

26/03/2024

This week's meditation in nature session is all about relaxation ☺️
Before spending intentional time in nature, I had no idea what feeling really, deeply relaxed could be like.
The significance of which is not just a pleasant feeling, but changes the whole experience of life and the sensemaking that goes along with it, as well as incredible benefits to physical and mental wellbeing.
Meditation with nature for relaxation utilises the supportive qualities of nature (that mountains of research show engenders relaxation) combined with intention and of course particular techniques to help our whole being get nice and loose, open, expansive and receptive 🪷🌿✨
Register (free) for this week here!
https://buytickets.at/weaponsofmasscreation/1126135

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21/02/2024

I posted this on my other page, Way of Nature, but realised that it is relevant to bodywork. The more we open up to our sensuous, animal bodies the more we open to the magic of this world ✨

I am not into the kind of spirituality that sees matter and spirit as existing separately. The kind that says, 'you are not your body.' The 'up and out' mentality that says you leave this world, and just here for a visit.

There are aspects of reality that we don't ordinarily perceive, but they are here.

If we fail to see the material world as sacred we treat it as less than.

The magic of spirit is present in this world, waiting to be discovered ✨🪷

22/12/2023

Happy solstice everyone!

Today, December 22, at 11.27am AWST is the Summer Solstice; the time when the earth tilt is at its zenith, exposing the southern hemisphere to the sun maximally, creating the longest day of the year.

On a personal level, the photons we receive from sunlight are incredibly important to daily health, regulating our circadian rhythms. We also have a circannual (yearly) rhythm which is dictated by the information we receive from light in our environment; i.e. our bodies sense the time of year through the amount and quality of sunlight, and this regulates our endocrine system.

On a macro level, for the thriving of Earth into the future, and the viability of humankind as part of her, it is essential that we embody the patterns of nature (and we are an expression of nature) once again. Solstices were traditionally a time for ceremony. Even a simple meditative ritual, allowing awareness to settle on this turning point can help weave us back into the web of life in a small way.

17/12/2023

Did you know that up to half a humans lymph nodes are located in the abdomen?

The lymphatic system is an essential part of our immune, circulatory and metabolic systems. Lymph nodes do not have their own musculature to push things through so they rely on pressure changes in the surrounding tissue to keep their contents moving.

The diaphragm is located at the top of the abdominal cavity and plays a crucial role in providing pressure changes to flush the lymph - i.e. unrestricted breathing, the kind that moves the belly, is essential to healthy function of those lymph nodes, as well as the organs in the belly.

Abdominal massage can help this along in 2 ways:
1. Applying external pressure to help clear the lymph
2. Unlocking restricted breathing so that the client maintains normal, healthy breathing and belly pressure changes after the session

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15/12/2023

If you would like to give the gift of healing and nourishment (and avoid 'things' that just go to waste 🌿) gift vouchers are available :)

Hint: Abdominal massage is great for digestion, detoxification and stress reduction so not a bad idea for someone post-xmas! 😃