FOR THOSE WHO WORK WITH THE LIVING WORLD
Regenerative Agriculture & Ecological Practice
You already know something.
You know it in the way your hands read the soil. In the way you can sense when a landscape is coming alive again — not just in the data, but in the feel of it. In the quality of attention that draws you outside before dawn, that keeps you watching the way water moves, the way roots reach, the way a whole system breathes.
You already know there's more going on here than technique.
The interior dimension
Regenerative practice asks us to shift from imposing on the land to participating with it. From extraction to relationship. From forcing outcomes to creating conditions for life to express itself.
This is a profound shift — and it doesn't happen only in the paddock.
The same consciousness that can listen to a landscape, that can perceive what wants to emerge rather than dictate what should happen — this is also available as an interior capacity. A way of meeting yourself, your work, your life. An inner regeneration lets say.
Most regenerative training develops the outer skills brilliantly. Soil biology. Holistic management. Systems thinking. But the interior shift that makes these practices sustainable — the one that prevents burnout, that keeps you creative rather than reactive, that helps you hold the tension between what's emerging and what resists — this often goes unnamed.
What is indigenous to all of us
Indigenous cultures have long understood something that the regenerative movement is rediscovering: that the living world communicates through qualities we can learn to perceive directly. Qualities such as Aliveness. Wholeness. Clarity. Spaciousness.
These aren't metaphors. They're recognisable qualities of being itself — and they're most easily perceived through the less cluttered expressions of the natural world. The freshness of morning light on water. The spaciousness held in an open landscape. The quiet aliveness of healthy soil.
You've felt these. You may not have had language for them — but your body knows.
These qualities aren't the possession of any one culture or tradition. They're what is indigenous to all of us. What we are all native to. They're essence — the ground of being — expressing itself through every living thing, including you.
The same movement, inside and out
What you're already practising with the land — learning to listen, to perceive what's needed, to hold creative tension, to let life regenerate through your care and attention — this is the same movement that transforms how you create, how you lead, how you sustain yourself in work that asks everything of you.
When you develop the capacity to recognise these qualities in yourself — the aliveness in your own seeing, the spaciousness in your own presence — something shifts. You're no longer just doing regenerative work. You're living regeneratively. The practice becomes the person.
And from here, conditions tend to unfold in ways you couldn't have planned — often better than you could have forced.
The Essence Way
The Essence Way is a perceptual practice that develops this interior capacity. Through sensory presence, gentle inquiry, and companionship, you learn to:
Recognise the qualities already expressing through your relationship with the living world
Develop your capacity to perceive what's arising — in the land and in yourself
Hold the creative tension between what wants to emerge and what resists, without collapsing into either
Let these qualities inform how you meet your work, your challenges, your life
Sustain yourself from a deeper source than willpower or urgency
This isn't a programme to add to your already full life. It's a way of meeting the life you're already living — with more presence, more clarity, and more of the aliveness that drew you to this work in the first place.
How this could look for you
Essence Companionship
An intimate, ongoing journey of discovery. One-to-one sessions where we explore the qualities alive in your experience and develop your capacity to live and create from them.
A Conversation
If something here resonates, I'd love to hear about your work and what's stirring. Book a free discovery call and we'll explore whether this is a good fit.
A little about me
I live in a valley where four generations of my dairy farming family have made their home. I run a small gardening business alongside my coaching and companionship practice. My hands are in the soil most days.
The Essence Way emerged through my own journey of learning to perceive the qualities that move through this land — and recognising them as the same qualities that move through me. Through meadowtations (contemplative walks in nature), painting, seasonal cooking, and the slow practice of paying attention, I've come to trust that these qualities are available to anyone willing to notice.
I trained in coaching through Tara Mohr's Coaching-Way programme and have studied extensively in developmental psychology, integral theory, and contemplative traditions. But the real teacher has been the valley, nature, and the willingness to keep listening.
"The quality of aliveness emanating through the soil is the same aliveness in the quality of seeing — the aliveness of essence itself."
