Living Nature Wellness

10/10/2025

We’ve officially named our part of Wise Woods Toadstool Corner 🍄 — a growing community space created by children, families, and volunteers through the Living Nature Learning Hub.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be co-creating this area into a nature-based hub for learning, creativity, and connection — complete with a fire circle, compost space, and shelter built from repurposed materials.

To bring this vision to life, we’re asking the local community to help us gather a few practical bits:

🪵 Logs or stumps for seating
🪚 Pallets or wood offcuts
🪣 Buckets or large tubs
🔥 Fire pit bowl / old washing machine drum
🪴 Bark slices or natural decorations for children’s projects
🔨 Tools like hammers, nails, or rope
💺 Old stools or outdoor chairs
🌧 Tarps or guttering for water collection
🪧 Wooden posts or planks for directional signs

Everything we’re building here is about reuse, regeneration, and learning together.
If you have anything to donate — or would like to come lend a hand — please comment below or message me.

This little woodland corner is already starting to come alive with creativity and care.
Let’s grow it together. 💚

07/10/2025

The Living Nature Learning Hub has begun!

This week our small group of children met the land for the first time — drawing “Guardians of the Land,” naming trees, building paths and natural boundaries, and dreaming about what our community space could become.

We’re co-creating a place to learn, grow, and care for nature together — one stick, one smile, one idea at a time. 🌳

06/10/2025

🍂 October Kids’ Wellness Club – Bookings Now Open! 🍁

Our much-loved Kids’ Wellness Club is back for October half term, offering a full day of nature, movement, and mindful play in the heart of Werneth Low 🌿

Children aged 5–12 will enjoy a day filled with:
✨ Mindful movement & yoga
🧠 Emotional wellbeing activities
🎨 Nature-based crafts
🌳 Woodland games & exploration
💬 Storytelling & quiet connection time

This is not your typical holiday club — it’s a space for kids to reconnect, reset, and thrive. Each session is grounded in creativity, emotional literacy, and the rhythms of the natural world 🌎

🕘 9am–3pm
📍 Werneth Low Country Park
🎒 Bring a packed lunch, water bottle & warm outdoor clothing
👧🏽 Open to all children aged 5–12
💚 Parents welcome to stay and join in too

Spaces are limited & bookings are now open at:
👉 www.livingnatureuk.org/booking

Let’s make this autumn one to remember ✨

30/09/2025

Join us for our very first Wellness Circle at Wise Woods — a chance to slow down, meet the land, and begin creating community together in this beautiful woodland space.

This gentle evening will include:
– A forest bathing walk and time to connect with the land
– Gentle mindful movement under the trees
– An optional mindful dead-hedging activity, tending and shaping the woodland as part of our practice
– Closing with tea and quiet reflection around the fire

This circle is open to all — no experience needed. Come as you are, and give what feels right. Contributions will go directly into supporting these circles and the development of Wise Woods as a community wellbeing space.

Limited spaces | Book via www.livingnatureuk.org/booking

27/09/2025

Here’s where it all begins… making a start at the land that will soon become the Living Nature Hub 🌳

I’m Josie, co-founder of Living Nature CIC. Living Nature was born from my journey through education, therapy, and motherhood — a vision to create spaces where wellbeing, community, and nature come together.

It feels so special to stand here and see this dream taking shape. ✨

25/09/2025

We’re beginning something new this autumn – a community-rooted, nature-based learning hub where children can grow together through real, hands-on projects.

This is not a school, and not a finished product – it’s an evolving, co-created space. In our pilot, children will help design and shape the hub itself:
🗺️ Mapping and observing the land
🔥 Creating a fire circle
🚽 Designing compost toilet ideas
⛺️ Experimenting with simple shelters
🪵 Building natural boundaries like dead hedging

Our first group will be small – around 5 children to start – which makes this the perfect time to join as a “founding family.” Your child will have a real voice in shaping the space, and their work will contribute to a National Lottery funding bid to help us grow.

Sessions run Tuesdays, 10am–3pm, based at the Nightingale pub woodland in Strines.

We’re keeping things flexible, child-led, and rooted in real life. No experience needed – just curiosity, creativity, and a love of the outdoors.

📖 For more info comment Welcome
📝 To book or ask questions, get in touch: www.livingnatureuk.org/booking

24/09/2025

Isn’t nature extraordinary? 🌿 Trees know how to live alongside each other with a wisdom we can learn from. This behaviour, called crown shyness, shows how they create space — protecting one another while letting more light through.

It’s a reminder of their innate intelligence, their ability to connect and support each other through underground networks, and the way they quietly teach us how to live in balance.

Here are 5 wonderful ways trees help us — and our nervous systems:
1. 🌱 Grounding presence – Sitting with trees can slow our heart rate and bring a sense of calm.
2. 🌱 Air purification – They filter pollutants, giving us cleaner air and easing the load on our bodies.
3. 🌱 Co-regulation – The steadiness of nature helps regulate our breathing and calm anxious states.
4. 🌱 Connection – Trees communicate through a mycorrhizal network (the “wood wide web”), sharing nutrients and supporting weaker neighbours.
5. 🌱 Perspective – Their age, rootedness, and seasonal rhythms remind us of life’s cycles — that rest, growth, letting go, and renewal are all part of being human.

When we step into the presence of trees, we step into a different rhythm — one that soothes, regulates, and reconnects us with what matters most.

✨ Next time you walk beneath their canopy, notice how your body feels.

Crown shyness isn’t just visual art. By keeping branches apart, trees reduce damage from wind, limit insect spread, and let more light through.

It’s survival shaped by restraint, leaving the sky patterned like a living puzzle.

24/09/2025

🍁 Autumn is here, and with it comes a new season of Living Nature…

From our Kids’ Wellness Clubs to the Learning Hub pilot and our gentle Community Wellness Circles, we’re weaving together ways for people of all ages to slow down, connect, and feel at home in nature.

Even on the busiest days — when energy is high and the children are full of beans — something shifts when we step outside or pick up something creative. Quiet arrives. Calm lands. And connection grows.

✨ This autumn we’re:
– Launching the Learning Hub pilot at WiseWoods (October start, limited places).
– Running Kids’ Wellness Clubs through the season.
– Gathering in Community Wellness Circles

Come be part of it. 🌿

23/09/2025

🌿 We need a wheelbarrow! 🌿

We’re launching the Living Nature Learning Hub this October — a space where children will design and create their own outdoor learning environment using donated items.

Right now, we’re especially looking for a wheelbarrow 🛠️ but we’d also love:
✨ Garden tools
✨ Pots
✨ Wood
✨ Tarps
✨ Repurposable outdoor materials

Every little helps us bring this project to life — and we’re documenting the journey as part of a National Lottery environmental grant application.

💚 If you have anything to donate (or know someone who does), please drop us a message. Thank you for helping us grow this project!

23/09/2025

🍂 5 reasons autumn helps us to slow down 🍂
(and why our nervous system thanks us for it)

As the days shorten and the air cools, nature is inviting us into a slower rhythm. Autumn shows us that rest and letting go are not signs of weakness, but part of the natural cycle of renewal.

✨ Here’s why this season supports us:
1. The softer light calms overstimulated minds.
2. Cooler air encourages grounding and presence.
3. Falling leaves remind us to release what we no longer need.
4. The quieter landscape soothes sensory overload.
5. Nature’s rhythm models balance—activity followed by rest.

At Living Nature CIC, this is exactly what we explore through our Wellness Clubs, Circles, and Learning Hub—ways of slowing down, reconnecting, and discovering that calm is already within us.

🍁 Upcoming this season:
– Autumn Wellness Circles
– Half-term Wellness Club at Werneth Low
– The new Learning Hub pilot beginning in October

✨ Join us in nature, where slowing down isn’t something you have to try to do—it just happens.

22/09/2025

Mushrooms remind us that so much of life happens quietly, beneath the surface.

Just like the hidden mycelium webs that connect whole forests together, our wellbeing is shaped by connection — with each other, with nature, and with ourselves. 🌿

This autumn at Living Nature we’re weaving those connections through:
✨ Wellness Circles – reflective, seasonal gatherings.
✨ Learning Hub Pilot – child-led, nature-inspired education.
✨ Wellness Clubs – creative, calming spaces for children.

Even on the busiest days, a pause in nature can restore us. 🍂
Come join us in the season of slowing down.