About Robyn, Innate Ecologist Ecosomatic Practitioner
Welcome.
If you are longing to deepen your relationship with yourself and the natural world, you are in the right place.
With a background in Environmental Studies, Counselling and Social Work, Forest Therapy, and Somatics, this work has been a central thread in my life for nearly two decades.
After moving to Canada from England at age 20, I experienced a profound opening to the healing and transformative power of nature connection.
While living in a log cabin in the temperate rainforest of coastal British Columbia for six months, I experienced deep immersion with the land. This time in nature profoundly reshaped my nervous system patterning, and awakened a spiritual relationship with the natural world.
From that time on, I knew my life’s work was to become rooted within the intelligence and healing capacity of nature connection.
Professionally, I have worked as an Addictions Therapist, Domestic Violence Crisis Counsellor, Forest School Instructor, Forest Therapy Guide, and teacher of my ancestral British animist traditions.
Each one of these roles brought me into a deeper understanding of nature connection as a powerful pathway for healing and transformation.
Most importantly, I have spent thousands of hours in direct, embodied relationship with land and wilderness across Europe and North America, which has supported me in processing trauma, re-patterning my nervous system, and reshaping my life.
Out of this lived experience and professional training, I developed Innate Ecology—an ecosomatic praxis framework that guides us back into deep, reciprocal relationship with the natural world.
Innate Ecology supports nervous system tending, embodied awareness, and meaning-making through somatic psychology and depth kinship with the earth.
This framework is the foundation of my work, and is taught through my Innate Ecology Ecosomatic Practitioner Training, as well as my course and membership community which you can access here.
Other essential elements of my life include being a mother to my three incredible daughters, an on-going inquiry into my ancestral ways of knowing (Gaelic animism), and somatic exploration of living through Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma and treatment.
I live on traditional Saugeen Ojibway Nation Territory, Grey County, Ontario, in the Great Lakes Region, and spend a lot of time on the traditional unceded Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Squamish Nation territory, North Vancouver, British Columbia in the temperate rainforest.
Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community
