Enter a soul-satisfying program, where you will. . .
❀ Deepen your soulful relationship with the Earth.
❀ Embody her vibrant, grounded, peaceful presence.
❀ Let that aligned energy ripple into every conversation, decision, and contribution you make.
All without moving to the forest or becoming a monk. . .
We are all meant to embody the Earth's beloved essence.
We are each here to be an expression of her life energy, her beauty, and her peace.
Even just a few minutes of specific, nature-centered practices can profoundly transform your sense of meaning, belonging and alignment for life.
You already know the feeling.
There’s something downright magical that can happen in nature.
On the trails.
By the shore.
Under the moon.
The noise quiets. The chaos stops. Your worries fade.
You’re wrapped in a comforting energy of profound peace.
And something more.
Meaning. Belonging. Alignment.
But then, your everyday life takes over…
Deadlines. Headlines. Guidelines.
Your days fill with noise, pressures and distractions.
Those qualities you touched with the Earth fade into a memory — sometimes even while you’re still outdoors, when the weight of your worries feels heavier than the pack on your back.
This is the Earth Lover’s Paradox:
When the conditions are just right, you're able to touch a profound sense of meaning, belonging and alignment in nature, yet it slips away before it can shape your days, your work, and how you show up for what matters most.
Nature Practice is designed to dissolve this gap — to help you carry the soulful sense of meaning, belonging, and alignment you touch in nature into every part of your life.
addison
Everything starts to look different, feel different. I didn't expect that. After the first two lessons, I called my friend and I said, you HAVE to take this class.
Tessa
It’s helped me become more calm, clear and confident. It’s also helping me to strengthen my decision-making & my intuition.
Reshma
I feel like I’m never alone, even if I'm the only person around - that is a huge gift. The practice has also helped me find beauty.
What if those moments didn't end?
Imagine waking up with a warm-hearted sensation—a knowing of the preciousness of this moment. To be able to experience another day of vibrant, aligned peace—not just on rare occasions, but as your default state.
Imagine your regular life was infused with:
❀ Meaning — that your life matters, and that you’re part of something vast and beautiful.
❀ Belonging — that you are at home with the Earth, and she is at home with you.
❀ Alignment — that your choices, relationships, and priorities reflect your deepest values.
Imagine that you contribute to our times in ways that are more calm, courageous and creative.
Imagine living in a way that feels soul-satisfying — all the time.
This is what Nature Practice is designed to help you do.
Why this matters.
When you cultivate this soulful relationship with the Earth, everything changes — not just your mood, but the way you spend your time, the way you show up for others, and the way you care for the world.
This isn't a personal indulgence. It’s a vital part, of our ability to be able to, not only stop, but actually reverse this life-depleting momentum of injury we are experiencing, transforming it into a life-enriching cycle of healing and regeneration.
How it works.
In Nature Practice, we follow an enriching and powerful process:
- Join the Nature Practice program.
Step into a community of Earth lovers from around the world, dedicated to cultivating a life of nature-centered meaning, belonging and alignment. - Take a step, right outside your door.
For the first six weeks, simply step outside – to your porch, terrace, or a nearby park. You don't have to think about anything. Simply listen to a short daily audio recording that will guide you into a practice of taking a soulful sip of nature (not more than 25 minutes). Before you know it, you’ll naturally embody the foundations of Nature Practice through real-life experience. - Participate in Live Sharing Circles
Join live Q&A sessions with me and the community, where we address your specific challenges and help you weave the practice into your everyday life. - Make Your Practice Your Own
Once you learn the foundations, personalize the practices according to your aspirations, location, heritage, spiritual tradition, and stage of life. As you curate and create your own repertoire, you make the practices more resonant, and easy to return to again and again. - Deepen & Expand
Continue to develop your soulful relationship with the Earth, with ongoing mentorship. Access a growing library of talks, mini-retreats, and practices that help you extend your sense of meaning, belonging, and alignment into every part of your life, and into the world around you.
Have we met?
Hi, I’m Natasha Deganello Giraudie.
Nature will be our mentor, our teacher. I’m happy to be your guide.
I am a child of the Caribbean, the rainforest, and the tepuyes of Venezuela. I raised my daughter among the Redwoods and the Pacific Ocean of Northern California.
As an expecting mother, I was shocked to realize the amount of overwhelm, exhaustion and misalignment that I had come to accept as normal. I was not willing to accept that this would become the soundtrack of my baby’s life. This led me on a journey, to extend the soulful sense of meaning, belonging, and alignment that I had touched in nature, into our everyday life.
In developing what later became the Nature Practice method, I began to retrace and expand upon three beloved threads of my life:
❀ Himalayan traditions from two decades of study with the Dalai Lama and nature retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh.
❀ Indigenous wisdom from a lifetime of learning from and collaborating with elders and wisdom keepers a number of tribes throughout the Americas.
❀ Creative expression from my work as a filmmaker of award winning projects, and for my personal explorations of sketching, poetry, and song.
Along the way, I’ve had the privilege of guiding more than a thousand of Earth lovers—from all corners of the world, across different backgrounds, heritages and spiritual traditions. I have also taught a nature practice course at Stanford University and led workshops for the United Nations, the Dalai Lama Fellows, Yosemite’s NatureBridge, One World Ayurveda in Bali, and others.
I look forward to getting to know you and helping you share your natural peace with the world.
Stages of soulful relationship with the Earth.
Many who join the Nature Practice program arrive with a deep love for the Earth — they spend time outdoors, know her rhythms, and may have studied her ecosystems. They’ve built strong physical, mental, and emotional bonds with her.
What we cultivate in Nature Practice, is something more intimate and transformative: your soulful relationship with the Earth. The kind of bond that soothes you and energizes you in ways that help you become a greater instrument of healing for yourself, your community and the Earth herself.
Wherever you are in your journey — whether you’ve only felt brief moments of profound peace in her presence, or you’ve woven them into the fabric of your days — you are welcome here. This path meets you exactly where you are and helps you deepen those qualities until they flow naturally through your life and through the world around you.
❀ Stage One. Bark: Emerging Peace
You’ve tasted peace—and that’s no small thing. Perhaps you feel it when you’re on a quiet trail, by the ocean, or surrounded by trees. But when life gets loud again, that peace feels far away. This is where many of us begin: loving the Earth, longing to protect her and defending her beauty. But not yet feeling the steady, living relationship with her that restores our peace from the inside out. The opportunity is to move from fleeting moments of peace to a way of being that stays with you.
Doorway to Stage Two: The Earth is inviting you into a true relationship — one where she becomes a presence you can turn toward.
❀ Stage Two. Phloem: Relational Peace
You’re beginning to realize that peace isn’t just about where you are, but a relationship you are in. You already spend time outdoors, know the Earth’s rhythms, and feel a deep love for her — but now you’re starting to feel her presence as a living companion you can turn toward. This is a stage of growing intimacy, where you greet the Earth like a friend instead of a destination. Peace is no longer something you visit — it starts visiting you. The Earth is calling you to deepen this relationship so it can guide your choices, not just brighten your moments.
Doorway to Stage Three: You begin moving from stumbling into moments of peace to consciously creating them.
❀ Stage Three. Cambium: Creative Peace
You are actively curating and creating a repertoire of practices that reliably infuse your life with meaning, belonging and alignment, in collaboration with the Earth. Peace is no longer an occasional gift of perfect conditions — it’s something you’re co-creating together through your daily rhythms and rituals. This stage is rich with creativity and experimentation. You’re weaving peace into your life in ways that are unique to you, through moments of beauty, playfulness, and presence – and seeing peace as a craft you’re meant to master.
Doorway to Stage Four: You start showing up with consistency, shaping these practices so they’re unmistakably your own.
❀ Stage Four. Sapwood: Reliable Peace
You’ve experienced the compounding effect of the daily practice of consciously cultivating a sense of meaning, belonging and alignment in collaboration with the Earth. You've seen how it infuses your thoughts, words and actions. You start to understand what Rumi meant when he said, "When you take on step towards peace, peace takes 1,000 steps towards you." In this stage, you are personalizing your repertoire of practices to make them your own – according to your aspirations, location, heritage, spiritual tradition, and stage of life. As you make them more resonant, you make them easier to return to again and again. The benefits are becoming more consistent, and your practice feels like a natural part of your life.
Doorway to Stage Five: The steadier your presence, the more peace stays with you — even when life is turbulent.
❀ Stage Five. Heartwood: Peace by Default
You are living in the ceremony of life, continuously connected to your profoundly peaceful presence. The nature-centered sense of meaning, belonging and alignment infuses your every breath, your every step. Your relationship with the Earth is a living, breathing bond that shapes how you see, speak, and act in the world. Life's challenges may throw you off balance, but you know how to return. At this level of mastery, your humility roots you, which inspires you to continue deepening and expanding your sacred relationship with the Earth for as long as life remains.
Anne
As a health care worker, I believe every mental health practitioner would benefit from this course.
Hollie
This community was my winter sustenance – an embodied tending to the everyday sacred in nature.
Chloe
I have more thoughtfulness about how to pass on my reverence for nature to my daughter.
Choose your path.
Extend the sense of meaning, belonging, and alignment you touch in nature — into your everyday life.
Whether you prefer to explore on your own or be personally guided, there’s a path for you:
Self-Paced
Group Mentorship
Doors open for one day only on Saturday, August. 16 at 8:30am, Pacific.
✨ Only 27 new members will be welcomed during this flash opening. ✨
Inspired by a tiny colibrí.
The hummingbird taught me that I didn’t have to leave my life behind to access my peaceful, grounded presence. I didn't have to move to the forest or become a monk.
I could simply open my door and take regular, soulful sips of nature—right where I am.
That’s why the Nature Practice method is designed to fit into real life—just 25 minutes or less per day to nurture deep, lasting peace.
Roxana
I savored, in particular, the poems throughout the recordings & sharing circles. They inspired me to bring in more art into my work.
Sandra
This has been a time to deepen my rooted knowledge that I've always had as a little girl – to remember the joy of being outdoors.
Laura
I came to this practice looking for structure, insight, awareness & community during these difficult times. I found so much more.
My Guarantee.
I wholeheartedly believe in the power of this program to transform your sense of peace. If you show up for the simple practices, do your weekly check-in to let me know how you are doing and where you are getting stuck —but don’t feel a meaningful shift within 3 weeks—I’ll gladly offer you a full refund.
With a 98% success rate, I'm honored to stand by this promise.
Your deepest peace lies in your relationship with the Earth.
Cora
I was completely blown away by the soulful topics, the flow the resonance - it was just amazing!
Sophie
It's not just about connecting with nature, it's about connecting with your sacred roots. In these times - EVERYONE should take this course!
Veronica
By exploring the elements, and connecting with them, it brought me back to where I need to be.
Zilah
I learned to listen with new ears, to soften and love the moment-by-moment mystery and how to move forward toward collective healing.
Jenny
I have a new found sense of peace & gratitude for nature. I feel rejuvenated – sometimes even ecstatic! I have found solace.
Maureen
This program has greatly illuminated & enhanced my life! It is a pure joy to connect in community, especially worldwide!
Frequently Asked Questions.
What makes this program special?
I have so much going on - how can I know if timing is right for me?
What if I start to fall behind and can’t keep up with 25 mins per day?
Is it really risk-free?
How long will I have access to the program?
Do you offer scholarships?
Why reconnect with your peace now?
Because your peaceful grounded presence is the foundation of everything.
This is for your well-being and vitality.
For your relationships and purpose.
For your community’s strength.
And for the Earth, who needs you – now more than ever – to show up with a sense of meaning, belonging and alignment.
DISCLAIMER
The Nature Practice programs and mentoring are intended to educate and inspire you on your personal journey toward wellbeing and happiness. They are not intended to replace care best provided by qualified professionals and they are not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
