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, news cycles and absurdity of the artificial world.  
They can root more deeply into their relationship with the Earth, beyond spending time outside.  
And, in doing so, they become a more resonant instrument for the Great Healing of our times.

I’m a daughter of the Venezuelan Caribbean, adopted by the Californian redwoods.

After decades of study with the Dalai Lama and learning from Indigenous wisdom keepers, a life-altering wake-up call from my body redirected me into a deeper relationship with the Earth — not as a place to visit for peace, but as a teacher, elder, and reflection of my greater self.

What I discovered is this: it’s not just that you love nature. It’s not just that you feel peaceful and joyful on the trails, at the beach, or under the moon. It’s that you feel most like yourself there. You can literally feel the flow of life running through your veins.

And that’s why it hurts so much when you start contorting yourself to accommodate the pressures, the demands, the news, and the absurdity of the artificial world.

In that contorted state, you’re not just tired. You’re pinching off the flow of life.

I guide Earth lovers and leaders into profound peace, natural reciprocity, and the intelligence of their intuition by deepening their relationship with the Earth, beyond spending time in nature.

This work has been shaped through my own unraveling and through working with more than a thousand Earth lovers, changemakers, and leaders around the world.

I’ve taught at Stanford University and led workshops and retreats for the United Nations, the Dalai Lama Fellows, One World Ayurveda in Bali, and NatureBridge at Yosemite. I host the Apple Top 20 podcast Nature Practice, and my award-winning films on spiritual ecology have been broadcast on PBS, screened at the Smithsonian, and presented at UNESCO events.

What matters most: the people I work with stop treating peace like something they find in nature and lose in life. They begin living from it — with more aliveness, clarity, courage, creativity, and freedom — as their default state.

One word to heal our relationship with the Earth.

An uplifting short film I co-directed with Michael "Pom" Preston of the Winnemem Wintu tribe of Mt. Shasta.

It's based on one question:

What's one word from your ancestral language that changed your life and that you can offer to the next generation to heal our relationship with the world?

Appropriate for all ages.  (20 mins.)  

Who's Rosa Guayaba?

I can't possibly take credit alone for the nature practice method.  
It's a result of many generous whispers from the Earth.  
Rosa Guayaba is my name for this collaboration.

Rosa Guayaba is the particular color of a ripe guava fruit. You say "dusty pink". I say "rosa guayaba." Saying those words connects me not only to a favorite color and a treasured taste of my beloved Venezuela. Rosa Guayaba is gratitude for the immeasurable gifts that nature offers us each day. Rosa Guayaba is the scent carried by the breeze, reminding us of who we are and what we are here for. Rosa Guayaba is reverence for the land, the water, the air, the fire and for all that is sacred.  

This is what I look forward to helping you stay close to.

DISCLAIMER

As you might imagine, 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.