I’m Ffion, a nature & holistic wellness therapist and outdoor skills teacher, with over a decade of experience in various approaches to body and mind healing and nature-based skills.
My main goal is to encourage good health by adding a little nature or the wild back into people’s lives. I want to keep the ‘old’ wisdom alive and incorporate our ever-improving scientific understanding of why nature and getting back to our intrinsic nature is important to our wellbeing.
I know through personal and professional experience that nature benefits us in both body and mind. In fact, we all know this! If nothing else, COVID lockdowns gave us all an insight into how being kept away from nature impacts our lives and health. My own experience with significant illness drives me to bring the same benefits I have experienced through nature and the therapies I offer to others.
As well as therapeutic qualifications and experience, I also have a wealth of practical outdoor skills and experience, and a professional background in rights of way management, land access law, equality & diversity (particularly pertaining to countryside access), and have been the sole author or contributor to dozens of magazine articles, papers, and publications about the benefits that access to the countryside affords us. I have also spent many extended periods living ‘wild’ – outdoors in remote locations using only the facilities that the landscape and nature provides.
I am really proud to say that I am a member of the Complementary Medical Association, Global Online Yoga Association, the Mindfulness Teacher Register, and the Government’s Disability Confident Scheme, and am insured by Westminster Insurance.
All my therapy training is at level 3 or above and accredited by the Complementary Medical Association and/or the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine.
Approaches I offer:
- Clinical Herbalism
- Advanced Foot Reflexology
- Aromatherapy
- Cupping (static and massage)
- Massage – Swedish and deep tissue
- Reiki healing and atunements
- Body Healing
- Breathwork
- Diet, nutrition & eating psychology advice
- Mindfulness and MBSR practitioner
- Meditation
- Relaxation therapy
- Cold Water Therapy
- Shinrin Yoku (woodland bathing)
- Yoga Teacher GOYA-ECYT500
- Yin Yoga Teacher
- Yin Yoga & Myofascial Release (Myoyin)
- Yoga Nidra Teacher
- Pranayama Teacher
- Restorative Yoga Teacher
- Mindful strength – isometrics
- Foraging and wild cookery
- Bushcraft skills
- Currently working towards level 4 personal trainer qualification