“To know what the true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”
Services
Forest Therapy Walk
Join me for an immersive experience in partnership with the more than human world. Forest Therapy is a dynamically developing practice based on the general principle that it is beneficial (for humans and nature) to spend time bathing in the atmosphere of the forest. Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing), we will slow down, relax, and use our senses to get to know the Land we are living with.
Personal Coaching
I believe that you are in the driver seat of your life and my coaching role is to support your innate navigator. You are a whole being with unique characteristics, identities, joys and challenges and all is welcome. We will work together to identify your goals and use tools such as the body compass, thought work, visualizations and dream analysis to uncover your inner wisdom about the life that is best for you. The path may not always be straight or smooth or clear and that’s okay! I will give you my full attention and help you find the answers that are already within.
I am a graduate of the Wayfinder Coaching program, working on completing the requirements for certification and am offering pre-certification coaching packages at a deeply discounted rate. Send me an email and we can book a 20 minute complementary discovery call.
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Collaboration
I love connecting with people and organizations interested in deep conversations, wellness, human development and relationships with the more than human world. If you are a business or organization looking to bring forest therapy and/or coaching to yourself, your clients, or your colleagues, I would love to talk more about what we might build!
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My story…
This is my ‘for now’ story that I try to hold lightly as I know it will change - even if I don’t want it to!
I believe that my experience of life is an experience of constant flux AND I still try to cling, grasp and control so that I can be more comfortable. I also believe that each individual has an inner wisdom of the life that is best for them - including myself. My wisdom was buried and tangled by the expectations of the social world - it was and is incredibly helpful for me to heal and learn through working in partnership with coaches, guides and the Land. I am on a journey of re-wilding, remembering, and uncovering the gifts I have to bring to the world.
I was born on Treaty 7 territory, in what is also known as Calgary, Canada. In my adult life I have mostly lived in Northern Canada, currently and very gratefully on the Traditional Territories of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. I acknowledge the Lands and Waters that sustain my life and acknowledge the stewardship of Yukon First Nations in caring for the Lands and Waters since time immemorial. I am a daughter, mother, wife, sister, and aunty. I acknowledge many of my human characteristics including being white, cis gender, straight presenting, university educated, able bodied and a home owner offer me unearned advantages as I move through society.
I have worked for many years in health care, as a physiotherapist and a health care executive. A recent experience with occupational burnout provided me the opportunity to explore a new way of living, not just a new way of ‘working’. My process of healing has led to my current life philosophy - using embodied and meditative practices to help me recognize what brings me a sense of freedom, peace, love, generosity and joy, and then turning my feet and taking turtle steps in that direction. I want to share these practices for the benefit of all things in this world - Nature and Forest Therapy guiding through the lineage of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, Wayfinder Life Coaching (www.marthabeck.com) and meditation teaching soon to come.
We do not go to nature, we are nature.
Events
Welcome!
Book a Forest Therapy Walk - in person or virtual
Join me as we slow down, connect to ourselves and the more than human world. In a virtual offering, all you need is a device with good internet or cell connection and a place to be comfortable outdoors or indoors by a window or with a house plant.
Email amyriske5@gmail.com to sign up.
I look forward to honouring the turning of the seasons with you and the Land you are living with.
Pre Certification Coaching Sessions
Working through a challenge in your life, wondering what path is right for you? I will hold space, give you my full attention and help you find the answers that are already within you.
Blocks of 5 sessions (50-60 minutes).
Zoom, phone or walking outdoors.
Please reach out if you are interested in a forest bath, coaching or working together.
Fill out some info and I will be in touch shortly. I can’t wait to hear from you!
”You only have to let your soft animal body love what it loves”
- Mary Oliver
