About anna

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Anna is a fully Certified Forest Therapy Guide. She trained through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) Guides and Programs. Anna has spent most of the last 18 years on Waiheke Island with some time in England. Anna has always loved being in nature and has done many long walks around the world and discovered the practice of Forest bathing in England in 2018. 

Anna is not a therapist but is a Certified Guide. In this practice, we allow the therapeutic work to be done by the natural setting itself. A guide holds the space for this unique relationship to form between each participant and nature. A fundamental concept in our practice is the forest and the natural environment that facilitates the wellbeing benefits, and not the guide. 

As Amos Clifford the founder of ANFT describes:

“The Forest is the Therapist. The Guide Opens the Doors.”

Anna wants to share this practice with as many people as she can. She believes we all need to slow down and reconnect with nature. She loves the fact that although there are so many proven benefits of this practice, that people might also be inspired to start caring more for their own environments.