Mindful Kids (2026)

04/05/2026

On my daughter’s 19th bday, sharing her love of nature, especially sunsets & sunrises 🌅 with some photos she recently took in South America.

Notice the tiny (circled) heart in the final photo. She spotted it after taking the picture, and rushed over to the couple to share it with them 🫶🏻

🌅 Watching a sunrise (or even the way sunlight filters through a canopy of leaves) can activate our sixth sense - of awe - and when we experience awe, this can lead to a deep sense of gratitude, greater peace, clarity and wellbeing in our lives.

➡️ All of this & much more is in our Mindfulness in Nature for Teens CPD accredited training program, coming 🔜 (this June) 🌿😊

28/04/2026

Urban Tree Festival 2026 - one of my favourite festivals of the year 🌳

Thank you (Sara!) for inviting me to facilitate this very special event - details below ⬇️

Part of our City of London sponsored events, this gentle session with Ciaran Ivanovic combines Forest Bathing, Qigong and simple creative activities to help you slow down
and reconnect with nature. Taking place at
Christchurch Greyfriars Garden (a hidden gem in London 🌺) it offers a welcoming space for women to relax, connect and spend time together outdoors.

This is a FREE event celebrating trees, nature, and community - exclusively for residents of City of London estates, in
partnership with the

🎨Connect + Create: Women’s Nature Wellbeing Session 🌿
🗓️ Sunday 10th May
🕰️ 2.00pm - 4.00pm
📍Christchurch Greyfriars Garden (2 mins from St Paul’s Tube)
🫖 🍰 Includes refreshments afterwards

BOOK your spot via or scan the QR code

22/04/2026

Earth Day 2026 🌍

‘Dear Mother Earth,
Each morning when I wake up you offer me twenty-four brand new hours to cherish and enjoy your beauty… You are the greatest mathematician, the most accomplished artisan, and the most talented architect of all. The simple branch of cherry blossoms, the shell of a snail, and the wing of a bat all bear witness to this amazing truth. I cherish your precious creativity and I smile to this gift of life’ ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

This year’s Earth Day theme is 💚Our Power, Our Planet 💙 with a focus on Collective action & community involvement. Every small act becomes part of something bigger.
➡️ swipe left for some simple ways to make a difference. Get kids involved!

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🔜 Forest Bathing events to connect with the natural environment:

🌳Saturday May 9: Hampstead Heath 11am-1pm. Open to all.

🌳Sunday May 10: Christchurch Greyfriars Garden (St Paul’s Tube) 2-4pm. Open to female residents of the City of London. This is a fully funded event (no charge for attending)

🎟️🎟️ Both events are part of the brilliant BOOK via their (bio) link. Come if you can 💟🌿

16/04/2026

Amazing that I’m still smiling after what has just put me through🏋️‍♀️ Surely a testament to her gentle, yet encouraging style of training.

What, you might be thinking, has this to do with mindfulness….⁉️

It’s about me being mindful about two things ➡️ the fact that my Mum had Dementia and osteoporosis,and the importance of strength training for brain health and bone density.

I must admit, I don’t like strength training (I’d rather be walking, cycling or playing tennis…) but I do realise the importance of training regularly, especially as we get older.

Suzie is a very old friend of mine, and highly experienced PT. With her no nonsense attitude and fun demeanour I knew she’d be the right person to get me started. Check out her page for free tips and training programs 🩷

02/04/2026

Sharing a quick Sound Mapping practice for you to try over the Easter weekend. It’s a great exercise to focus your attention, give your brain a little break, and is calming to your nervous system 🩷🌿 I hope you enjoy it ➡️➡️ there are many more exercises like this one in our Mindfulness in Nature for Teens accredited course, coming soon 🔜 💚

A very Happy Easter to you all ! 🌸🌿🫶🏻

31/03/2026

💥 There’s been a lot in the news recently about social media platforms & companies exploiting girls insecurities around their faces and bodies, self esteem and social status. It is about time these platforms were held accountable for the negative impact they’re having on girls.

Freya India, 26yr old journalist & staff writer for shares everything you need to know about this in her powerful new book Girls®️ She suggests that girls have become commodities and offers insight into how they can break free.

As mum to a 19yr old daughter I thought I knew pretty much everything on this topic. I was very wrong! Here are just some of the things I didn’t know:

🚩TikTok plastic surgeons continue to push lip fillers and rhinoplasties to very young girls (including those under the age of 10)
🚩 Editing apps and encourage significant photo manipulation (the message being that girls are just not ‘good enough’ as they are)
🚩 Snapchat Stories /Spotlight have become billboards promoting everything from appetite suppressant lollipops to flat stomach teas…

One thing that Girls®️ is not, is a depressing /everything is going downhill read!
➡️➡️This is actually an empowering book with a positive message. These are Freya’s final words:

‘[We have a] choice facing us. For older generations, it is up to you to help girls see that life does not have to be like this. For young women, it comes down to us to show the next generation how to break free…and for girls growing up today…I hope you realise how much you are worth.

Girls®️ can become girls again: freer, happier, more hopeful, more sure of themselves…empowered by who they are on the inside’

Thank you for going against the grain and in doing so, lighting up new pathways for our girls 🔥

Girls®️ is available from a wide variety of bookstores.

19/03/2026

Very excited to share with you ➡️ Teaching Mindfulness in Nature to Teens, accredited (short) course ➡️ COMING SOON!
For educators, health professionals and parents 💚

Why a course for Teens? Because having shared these practices with teens over the years, I feel they need Mindfulness in Nature more than anything right now.

The teenage years are filled with academic pressure, social media & social comparison, changes in mood, identity, and relationships. 🌿 Nature-based Mindfulness offers some respite from all of this, helping teens feel:

🔸 grounded, connected
🔸 less stressed
🔸 more focused
🔸 like they belong to something bigger = feeling more fulfilled / more gratitude
🔸 being part of nature = wanting to look after her 🌳🐝

Tragically, time spent outdoors is reduced as kids (in schools) get older, with ‘play time’ being virtually non-existent in sixth forms. To me this makes no sense at all and is failing our kids.

I’m determined to change this and look forward to partnering with a brilliant organisation to give this accredited training further reach. More on this coming soon 😊

Photo of me at my desk - relieved to have finished creating the course. Next up - getting outdoors to shoot the videos :-)

11/03/2026

Walking the walk 🌿

Soaking up the beauty and wonder of Mother Nature on my walk in Hampstead Heath this morning 🌳

When I walk mindfully in nature, it fills me with a sense of joy, calm and deep gratitude for being able to experience moments like these.

And the best thing is that I get to share these experiences with others via:

🌿 My mindful Walks (Forest Bathing)

🌿 Our internationally accredited course: Teach Mindfulness in Nature to Children

🌿 Our workshops and 1:1 sessions

Tap the link in our bio for more details on all of the above 👆🏻

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04/03/2026

Ground yourself in Nature during turbulent times 🌳

“Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection” Dr. Gabor Maté

With everything that’s going on in the world right now it’s not surprising to be feeling anxious or unsettled. One simple way to find peace is to connect with what’s already there for us,
🌳 NATURE 🌳

Try this gentle yet highly effective grounding exercise to bring a moment of calm into your day (suitable for all ages)

🌸 Grounding 5-4-3-2-1

1. Find a spot outside or near a window.
2. Notice:
* 5 things you can see in nature (a cloud, a tree, a bird, something colourful…)
* 4 things you can feel (breeze, your feet on the ground, warmth from the sun…)
* 3 things you can hear (wind, birds, leaves rustling)
* 2 things you can smell (damp earth, a flower - think of a smell you like if you’re indoors)
* 1 thing in nature you’re grateful for in this moment

✅ Say the last one in your head like a sentence: “I’m grateful for ___ because ___.”
It is important for us to honour the earth not as a resource (to exploit), but as kin to respect 🩷💚

📸 All photos taken early this morning in Hampstead Heath.

🌲🌲 UPCOMING WALKS

🔸Saturday March 21, 2-4pm - our next Mindful Walk in Hampstead for our course students & graduates, and anyone interested in our Mindfulness in Nature for Children accredited course ➡️ Link in bio

🔸MAY 9-17 - I’ll be offering Connect & Create Mindful Walks for Register your interest via DM

25/02/2026

MANAGING STRESS & ANXIETY DURING THE EXAM PERIOD

With the lead up to GCSEs, A Levels (& Finals) I’m thrilled to have stumbled upon (another!) study which proves that spending time in nature can alleviate exam stress & anxiety.

National Library of Medicine (April 2025)
[Main article from Frontiers in Psychology]

🔸Reasons for the study
Nature-based interventions (NBIs) have gained traction for their potential to enhance mental health, as they are generally accepted and cost-effective, thereby offering a promising alternative to traditional interventions for alleviating test anxiety.
🔸Method
This study investigated the feasibility of NBIs (Nature play, Field observation, Mindful Nature Walks, and Nature Crafts /Art) to reduce exam anxiety among adolescents.
🔸Results
These types of Nature-based activities can significantly diminish excessive test anxiety and academic stress, along with alleviating symptoms of general anxiety and depression.

➡️➡️ As a cost-effective and low-stigma intervention method, NMIs can be easily implemented in schools & colleges to provide mental health support to young students and other vulnerable groups.

🤲🏻🌳Re-establishing the connection between humans and nature, particularly the connection with the local natural place, and forming recognition, identification, and emotional inheritance through in-depth activities can not only alleviate the burden caused by modern lifestyle and academic psychological problems, it can also help adolescents & young adults find motivation, purpose, and fall in love with / care for the natural environment 🌿

✅ What can you do as a parent /educator? Get your kids outdoors (& off phones) as much as possible in between study periods. Even 10 minutes will help 💚

Send me a DM if you’d like to read the full study.

17/02/2026

International Women’s Day 2026 ✨

Huge thanks to for inviting me to be part of the Expert Panel on

🗣️ This dynamic discussion will explore how nature-based practices are transforming personal well-being and community health.

🌿 Expert panelists will share their journeys as women working in these fields, the challenges and opportunities of building purpose-driven businesses, and their vision for the future of nature-centred care.

➡️ Visit for the full line up of their celebratory events, talks and workshops, that begin on March 2.
➡️ ➡️ TO JOIN ME & others on MARCH 8, tap the link 🔗 in our bio

🩷 This special programme not only offers wonderful educational opportunities to those who participate, but is also a time to reflect and to take care of ourselves as women of the world in these challenging times.

A percentage of all proceeds will be going to the Pachamama Alliance and Tree Sisters charities 💚

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13/02/2026

Three reasons for sharing this Qigong flow today:

1. It’s MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉 I’m celebrating all the great things in my life, and that includes connections made here :-)

2. This powerful Qigong flow connects to our heart energy ❤️‍🔥The heart is directly associated with the Fire element - relevant to the Year of the Fire Horse 🔥 🐎

3. It is said that the joy + exuberance of the Fire Element personality (that’s me : )) can often be so infectious it lifts up those around them. Let me know❗️

After trying this flow, be still for a moment. Notice how your energy is awakened 💥and your heart feels light ✨

You can also try this heart-focused Qigong tomorrow, on
V Day 🩷

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