Signature Keynote

Beyond Spending Time in Nature

Collaborating with the Earth to restore everyday peace, natural reciprocity and grounded intuition.

Purpose-driven organizations rely on leaders and team members who care deeply. These visionaries are often the heart of the mission, yet they are also the most susceptible to burnout. Because they are so highly attuned, they bravely bear witness to the complexities of our time, often absorbing the chaos until they are left experiencing:

• Depletion from the noise, the overstimulation and from fearing that the great challenges of our time may be insurmountable.

• Heartbreak from refusing to look away from the pain of the world, and the harm we are doing to each other and to the Earth.

• Frustration from the dissonance between the coherence they find in nature, and the misalignment of their everyday lives.

From a Nature Practice perspective, when  we are often left feeling depleted, heartbroken and frustrated, it has less to do with how we've shown up for ourselves... and more to do with how we are cultivating our relationship with the Earth.

In this paradigm-shifting keynote, Natasha offers a different perspective. She guides audiences through a nature-centered approach to deepening their relationship with the Earth – beyond spending time in nature – bring about more creative resourcefulness, profound wellbeing, and meaningful alignment.

Key Takeaways:

• The Root Cause: How the depth of your relationship with the Earth influences whether you embody the chaos of the artificial world or the brilliance of nature's intelligence.

• The Three Key Shifts: A practical framework for how to stop taking your cues from the Artificial world and become a clearer more resonant,  instrument of purpose.

• How to Get Started: We will walk through a trail-inspired map that shows you exactly where your sensitivity may be draining you, and where you have an opportunity to transform it into the profound natural intelligence that it is.

Hi - I'm Natasha.

I help Earth lovers & leaders feel like themselves in their everyday lives, not just in nature.

In this way, they can stop contorting to the pressures, demands, expectations and downright absurdity of the artificial world. They can deepen their relationship with the Earth, beyond spending time outside. And they become more resonant instruments in service of the Great Healing of our times.

I spent twenty years studying with the Dalai Lama (attending teachings with him in Dharamshala and around the world, later serving as Chairperson of the Dalai Lama Fellows), and a lifetime learning from Indigenous wisdom keepers (throughout the Americas, from Venezuela where I grew up to California where I now live). Then, an unexplained heart attack stopped me in my tracks. This gift in an unexpected package revealed how my way of contributing was actually depleting me and limiting the positive impact I could have. It invited me into a more regenerative way of collaborating with the Earth in bringing about my visions for a better tomorrow.

Today, I help others do the same.  I guide people who spend a lot of time in nature but still feel depleted, heartbroken, and frustrated in their actual lives. I work with them to restore their Natural Self by rooting into profound peace (from feeling peaceful on a good day in nature to feeling peaceful every day), cultivating natural reciprocity (from loving the Earth to living in reciprocity with her), and awakening intuitive intelligence (from leading with the rational mind to soaring with both wings).

I've taught this Nature Practice method at Stanford University and led workshops and retreats for UNESCO, the Dalai Lama Fellows, One World Ayurveda in Bali, and NatureBridge at Yosemite. As a documentary filmmaker, my projects focus on spiritual ecology and they have been broadcast on PBS, screened at the Smithsonian, presented at UNESCO and have won several awards in festivals around the world.