
5 Nature-Based Exercises
5 Nature-Based Exercises
To Cultivate Calm, Curiosity, and Connection
In this guide, you'll find five different experiential exercises designed to support you and your clients, family, or loved ones in connecting with nature.
Following each exercise, you’ll find journal questions, in case you’d like to dig deeper with further inquiry or discuss your responses or experiences with others.
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About Your Journal Creator
With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.
She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing, and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at a graduate level.
Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches, and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.”
