wild breath- by lisa
Lisa is based in the Scottish Highlands and creates spaces to connect to body
and land through breathwork, nature awareness, cold water therapy and ancestral
skills and crafts. With 'Wild Breath' she offers workshops & retreats and
facilitates experiences to connect to your inner nature, integrate the mind back
into the body, craft with hands and heart, remember ancestral wisdom for modern
times and come fully alive in your animal body.
Lisa is a qualified breathwork instructor, trained as an outdoor educator,
woodland activity guide and is currently working as part-time hide tanner for a
traditional Scottish tannery. She is passionate about rewilding the inner
landscape and ‘Wild Wellness’- where wilderness &ancestral skills and health &
wellbeing meet, and she loves to integrate wellbeing modalities such as
breathwork and meditation into wild spaces.
Her offerings emerged from her own healing journey of working in a stressful
academic environment. After a burn-out she took a deep dive into wellbeing
modalities and dedicated herself to learn what it means to live close to the
earth and in alignment with our bodies, minds and heart.
It is her joy and honour to create transformative spaces for others and to
explore how we can tend to our roots and what we need to fully thrive as humans.
Lisa's facilitation style is directly inspired by nature and she works in a way
that provides guidance, tools and a witnessing presence for people to tap into
their innate wisdom, power inside of themselves and into the healing ability of
their bodies. With practical tools and a deeper understanding of our biology and
what we need to thrive, everyone has the ability to thrive and rewild their
inner landscape!
Experiences
Lisa has a BA in Environmental Philosophy and an MSc from Edinburgh University
in Outdoor and Environmental Education with her masters research focussing on
the Wim Hof method and eco-somatic embodiment as a form of environmental
education.
She is a qualified Breathwork Coach& Facilitator with Infinite Breath and
member of the International Breathwork Foundation (IBF). She is also qualified
as BREATHE instructor, trained by Dr. Belisa Vranich, specializing in functional
breathing, breath biomechanics and psychology of the breath.
As a trained woodland activity leader, she is qualified through WALT (Woodland
Activity Leader Training) and also has a valid outdoor first aid qualification.
As a primitive skills practitioner she has been on an off grid wilderness
immersion in Norway with Lynx Vilden to learn ancestral skills& primitive living
and has since then taught at ancestral skills gatherings in Scotland and
assisted Lynx at some of her courses in Norway. She is furthermore currently
working as a part-time hide tanner for a traditional Scottish Tannery.
She strives to embody everything she teaches in her daily life and is
continuously learning from the greatest teachers of all- nature inside and
outside of us, our own body, the land, plants and animals.