our people

founder, lead facilitator

As a healing + creative arts facilitator, Veronica weaves her love for ceremony, soma, psyche, land and song into life-long service to our reconnection. From wild Welsh lands, her deep enquiry into indigenous healing traditions of the Americas and Mother Europe guides her fascination with the fabric of life and our belonging within it. With over a decade of facilitation experience + an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology (Alef Trust) + hosting the Rooted Healing podcast, Veronica’s joy for ancient ways is apparent and contagious.

co-director, facilitator

Alongside her facilitation of bodyfulness, Aisha produces stories (through documentary) and is in the making of projects that explore Britain’s ancient practices. Having been gifted the middle name of Amanita, Aisha has grown up with an ineffable curiosity in the healing powers of plants and fungi. This has led to her inquiry into ancient and indigenous practices near and far. Born and raised in London, she always felt a yearning for the wild and loves to gather folk together for magical moments of reconnection.

support, facilitator

A multi-musician and facilitator, Migjen weaves his enquiry of ancient ceremony and folk song into moments of connection and playfulness. With a mixed German-Albanian heritage and fascination with cross-cultural wisdom exchange, he approaches this ancestral work with care, curiosity and humility. Migjen supports this work in a multiplicity of ways alongside his teaching career, bringing a grounded approach to therapeutic pathways.

partner - deepen your roots

Ben is a facilitator, gardener + gatherer living in Eryri, North Wales, offering the creation of wild-culture gardens + the pollination of foraging for food, medicine and connection to place. He holds a PGDip in Sustainable Food + Natural Resources and his group work stems from 'The Work That Reconnects' and contemporary Rites of Passage. He facilitates programmes in Deep Ecology/Bioregionalism, foraging, wild-cultured gardening and initiation ceremonies all guided by a deep-rooted, nature-based philosophy. You can listen to Ben on our podcast.

partner - earth medicine: grief tending

Nici Harrison is a grief tending facilitator, writer, speaker and the founder of The Grief Space, a platform to shift the narrative on grief, inspire healing and bring together community. Grief was the gateway that brought Nici home to herself, a retrieval of her authenticity and truth. She came to grief work, as many of us do, through the experience of a deep personal loss. Nici has studied with Francis Weller, Sophy Banks and Jewels Wingfield, amongst others, and is also a transformational coach, carrying deep reverence for the art of grief tending in all its forms.

lead psychologist - earth medicine

Lilja is an experienced psychologist from Iceland who specialises in group psychedelic integration, healing trauma, psychedelic harm reduction, and treating addiction and chronic pain and illness. She has created a safe platform full of therapeutic courses to help people access their healing and joy. Lilja offers needed perspective on both the healing potential of psychedelics and the risks involved. Lilja has been immersed in native traditions in Ecuador to gain deeper insight into group psychedelic-assisted healing, learning with medicine keepers and masters and offering 1 on 1 support when needed.

ceremonialist - earth medicine

Andrew is a ceremonialist and multidisciplinary artist from Long Island, New York. For well over a decade Andrew has been passionately studying, learning from, and working directly with master plant teachers, ancient ceremonial traditions, and the practice of holistic body-mind healing through herbalism and spiritual teachings. Born of Jamaican and Iranian descent, Andrew humbly honours his ancestors and elders for helping guide him towards these ancient and universal forms in which all communities gather, heal, and grow together. Apprenticing with initiated teachers and elders of several traditions has provided Andrew with an immense respect and understanding of the responsibility of what it is to carry these sacred teachings with the upmost reverence and integrity.

psychedelic research, facilitation

Sam has a lifelong love of nature and wildlife, and a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen. Sam worked on the cutting edge of psychedelic research, as Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Beckley Foundation, and as a collaborator with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. Sam is a wildlife regeneration innovation leader with Ecosulis and continues to execute his ground-breaking research in nature connection, with exciting findings in the affects of Psilocybin with our level of nature connectedness. Sam is involved with our online preparation and integration programmes for earth medicine and often teaches fungi growing with us.