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Come away with me to the dappled green wild.
Come away to the dwelling of plants and trees.
And the four-legged, the winged, the creeping, burrowing, swimming ones.
Come away to slip through the wild and gentle air,
under the arching sky, across the strong land.
Come away with me
You and your animal body
Out into the world that formed you
Across two million years.
Come away down paths less traveled
Since our modern culture drowned out
The song of the earth.
And what will you find there?
It all depends on what you come looking for …
Some peace in mind and emotions
A sense of wellbeing in a stress-filled life?
A deep attunement with the natural world
Embodied, Sensory, Unspoken?
The chance to ground yourself
Find your bearings, a new sense of self, a fresh phase in life?
Or maybe you’re trying to make sense of the civilisation we have created.
Wanting to work out your place in it
From the ground up?
Or is there yet something else
That calls you closer
To the land?
Come away with me
Out into the dappled green wild
And discover ways of knowing, being and living
That will surprise, delight and inspire.
“The major problems in the world
are the result of the difference
between how nature works
and the way people think”
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference
between how nature works and the way people think”
Come and do a workshop or a longer programme with me.
There are workshops that offer different focuses – wellbeing, nature awareness, navigating life’s phases and cultural reflection.
They all share common principles and practices as their foundation, developed over the last fifteen years. They suit different budgets and have different levels of facilities offered. Most are one day, some are multi-week, one lasts six months.
Find out more about the workshops and about me through the buttons below.
I also offer one-to-one personal development and coaching. Email me to find out more.
"a unique and wonderfully potent experience of very high quality"
I was moved and impressed by the workshop which was a multi layered experience. I am very used to this kind of experience and so was especially amazed and delighted to get so much out of it. Alistair’s mix of spiritual aptitude, philosophical knowledge, facilitation and practical skills is unusual in my experience and combined to make this a unique and wonderfully potent experience of very high quality.
Mindfulness in Nature Participant
Latest Update – Friday 21st August
Thank you so much for clicking your way to my website. I appreciate you passing by. A special welcome if you are from Christopher Wallis’ Shaiva Tantra retreat!
I have one more day event in 2026 which is a “Deepen Your Nature Connection” workshop for Sussex Wildlife Trust at Woods Mill on Saturday 3rd October. It’s a bit different from the regular ones because I wanted to go a little deeper for those who have done something with me before. That said, even if you haven’t, you would be very welcome to join and won’t miss out at all through having not done a previous session!
Click the button to find out more and book:
The big event for me in 2027 is a week long programme at the Pari Center in Tuscany in Italy. This is Friday 31st May to 7th June. It’s called Inscendence and I will be running it with co-facititator Jonathan Code. I really think it is one of the most exciting and important things that I have done.
Thank you so much for clicking your way to my website. I appreciate you passing by. A special welcome if you are from Christopher Wallis’ Shaiva Tantra retreat!
In a time riven by fragmentation, dislocation and conflicting narratives, this programme invites a collaborative enquiry into ways of knowing and thinking that will delve deeply into the field where land, body and consciousness meet.
Inscendence proposes an opportunity for re-orientation by attending to participative awareness, heightened sensory perception and the wisdom of the body-mind.
In resonance with Pari, its landscape, history, and community, we will engage with many of the Center’s core themes seeking to open up a creative ground from which new forms of insight, relationship and action can emerge.
You can read more by clicking the button:
Finally, I have plunged into Non-dual Shaiva Tantra (completely different to the sexualised Neo-Tantra that every one thinks of when they see the word “tantra”!) over the past 18 months. This has introduced me to a totally new way of making sense of the nature of the experiences I have personally and that people on my workshops have. And it’s given me loads of really practical ways to dramatically deepen those experiences. I will be finding ways to incorporate this into things I offer so watch this space!!!
Thank you
Alistair
about me
I am Alistair. I have spent much of my life following a single thread — the vibrant stillness that we experience at the heart of everything.
I don’t aspire to be a teacher in the usual sense and have no appetite for the authority that the word carries. What I offer is my own path of experience, practices developed and gathered from many sources, and a way of making sense of things that has been a long time in the making.
This site is an invitation to pursue that thread together, through a quality of awareness that knows itself as part of the whole.
“We are human only
in contact,and conviviality,
with what is not human.”
David Abram[sape]“We are human only in contact, and conviviality,
with what is not human.”
David Abram