The transitions in life are often the tricky things – the stages where we are caught between one state and another, often while everything and everyone around us feels like they have clarity about where they are headed and how they will get there. Our subtle envy of their streamlined motion, focused intention and clear direction can seep out in …
Top tips for getting your teens off screens these holidays
Our top tips for getting your teens off screens these holidays Find a way to engage them in something epic – a multliday adventure that takes them out of the cloud and drops them back into their bodies. That shows them what they are capable of. Where they can build confidence and trust within themselves, experience new things, meet new …
The best way to get river fit for our journeys
Our top tips for feeling confident that your body is up for our adventures Try Movnat – our journeys are in a wilderness setting far from footpaths and paved roads, where you and your body will need to navigate rocky and sometimes slippery terrain. Practicing movements that develop your balance and ability to negotiate uneven surfaces will set you up …
Want to feel what its like to really go with the flow?
“Go with the flow”, “Be patient and see what evolves” “Do what feels good and effortless”. We often use and hear these saying in sentences but do we really know what it feels like to embody them? Just like I didn’t fully understand what it meant to “batten down the hatches” until I was sailing and a big storm was …
The art of mindfulness in the moments of chaos
It’s all well and good to go off to a meditation retreat, to spend 10 days in silence or a few months refining the ability to drift off to a beach in bali with 20 minutes of focused breathwork, but when do you get to practice mindfulness in the moment? In the midst of the chaos? While you’re being challenged …
Essential Wilderness
I can’t help but wonder – did we get it right? Was it essential that double supreme with thin and crispy crust made it to that fellas house on time? And was it a health risk that I take students out into the wilderness? In a year where things very quickly became categorized into non-essential and essential – be it …
Wildly Clean
We emerged from the wilderness united, through our shared experience and a mutual state of what some would call…filth. Mud and sun streaked tan-lines painted across our skin, our hair strongly styled by the wind, featured foliage and feathers that we had collected along our journey. Some were intentional additions, most were not. We didn’t mind. Our laughter resonated through …
Riverside Reflections
A week or two out from our latest paddling trip, the Nymboida River was barely a trickle. The river that we had chosen, because of its reliability; was being unreliable. Despite its magnificent beauty, near perfect sequencing of beginner rapids and relatively unknown existence, it was also able to be paddled within a one meter variance in height. This made …