The wild do not fear the wilderness. When we pilgrimage, we return to our wild spirit at the core of our soul. 

I gained certification as a Mountain Running Guide and Hiking Guide. This is an accredited program with Adventure Qualifications Network that, in combination with the Wild Medix Wilderness First Aid course, assures my competency to guide corporate team building groups, school groups, holiday hikers, families, individuals and couples on nature immersions into the expansive outdoors.

Nature and travel are my true loves, my gurus and my ikigai. Real life for me exists in the wandering, the exploring, the adventuring and the experiencing … in ratcheting open to allow the magical and the unimaginable to enter and add creative impact to the landscapes of body, mind and soul. Nature guiding and wellness retreats are the ways I share this love with you so that you can experience the wonder in your own wandering.

My mission is to take individuals and groups into forests, onto mountains, to the ocean and on pilgrimage or retreat abroad in a safe and heart-full way.
My vision is to guide people to achieve personal goals, find inner harmony and develop authentic integration through deeply connecting with nature.

To see the path you must take the first step. A guided trail with me is complemented by the variety of modalities I am trained in, including Integral Coaching (UCT Graduate School of Business, Jung and Developmental Psychology (Conscious Living Program and Intec College) Craniosacral Therapy (Integral Health), 500-hour Yoga and Meditation (SriMa Transformational School,India).

I offer gentle nature and guided meditation walks as well as more challenging trails that check a few personal goals boxes. I also offer adventure and meditation retreats to Nepal and India. Traversing trails and deeply breathing in mountain or sea air will infuse your system with beneficial microbes, changing you with every step, every breath, every emotional emergence and every sight, touch, smell, taste and sound.

Some examples of the routes and range of intensity I offer are:
Mild: Constantia Nek; base of Lions Head; Pipe Track; Kloof Corner
Moderate: Lion’s Head; Chapmans Peak Contour Path; Platteklip Gorge
Intense: Perdekop (Franschhoek); Devil’s Peak; Noordhoek Peak; Nursery Ravine
Impermanence Walks: Enquire about a morning of walking and writing for clarity and release.
Sacred Pause: Expand into a full day, half day or weekend hiatus at a mind-calming, emotionally balancing and grounding location
Meditation and Adventure Retreats: Enquire about professionally guided wellness adventures and retreats in Nepal and India
All routes and retreats are tailor-made for the individual or group so please enquire about variations on any theme.

We travel first because we think we have to somehow find ourselves. And then we travel because we need to lose ourselves. Finally we travel to open our bodies, our hearts and our souls to experiential value so that we can reprogram our foundational characteristics and forge a new reality to which we return … to the same place but a place that has changed because we ourselves are changed.

Contact me for more extensive and bespoke programs that can include trauma release therapies like breathwork, yoga and water therapy, or for meditation classes and courses that will complement the guided nature practices as a retreat to personal discovery and self recalibration. Complete the contact form to enquire about or book your guided trail and remember to include details of your personal adventure goal(s) so I can tailor-make your tour, whether for an hour or five, for an individual or a group of friends or colleagues.

Beginning in November 2025 on return from walking 1,000km on the Spanish Camino de Santiago, my intention is to seed monthly Cape Town wellness walks, donation-based community hikes and corporate nature immersions that will subsidise at-risk youth programs—movement medicine for a regulated nervous system.

Forest bathing is not just for the wilderness lover; the practice can be as simple as walking in any natural environment and consciously connecting with what’s around you. Proven by scientists to benefit physical as well as mental health Shinrin-Yoku helps to lower heart rate, blood pressure, reduce stress hormone production, boost immunity and mood and improve overall feelings of wellbeing.

No matter where you are on either your external or internal journeys, this could be the adventure that integrates the two by exploring your outer realities within the context of your inner landscape. The path we walk together will bring you closer to who you were born to be underneath all the layers of who you have been conditioned to become. I can guide you to getting lost so that you can then create your unique way, whether you feel ready to traverse the full distance or have only the capacity to take it section by section. A Hero’s Journey is never a once-off pilgrimage but a seeking, initiation and return that beckons each time a challenge pulls forth a shift, a purification, a rebirth or a review of your current belief in your reality. This is the Circle of Zen; the Quest found in every Question; the Path to your unique Pathology.

The main requirements of any route are that it should be safe and that it should allow the group to achieve its specific objective or objectives. I am serious about taking care of the environment and, as such, I follow the below Leave No Trace policy that takes certain factors into consideration before, during and after all our activities. When we connect with nature we make sure we don’t disturb nature but rather act as guardians of the environment we are engaging with as a resource. When booking a guided nature walk with me, please familiarise yourself with these guidelines before walking with me either one-on-one or as part of a corporate, school or general group.

Follow the waymarkers; get lost; take some detours; see new sights; resource well with water, rest and nutrition, and travel well … one step at a time.