"Cognitive psychologist David Strayer’s hypothesis is that “being in nature allows the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s command centre, to dial down and rest, like an overused muscle.”"

Excerpt from: 'Nature calms the brain and heals the body', The David Suzuki Foundation

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Forest Therapy is gaining global acclaim as an evidence-based, cost-effective and natural remedy – a ‘green prescription’ for a healthier you.

The practice that involves spending time in nature to connect with the environment and reduce stress.

It's not a HIKE but a whole body, sensory immersion in the natural world.

Forest Guides

"The forest is the therapist. A guide connects the forest with the person."

Our guides are ANFT certified. They have spent 6-months training to qualify as an ANFT Nature and Forest Therapy guides to ensure the quality of your guided experience.

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Rewild Foundations offers a transformative movement and rewild lifestyle experience. The course is theoretical and practical covering a wholistic range of functional movement skills, nature connection and rewild activities designed to enhance movement awareness and mobility, explore and connect with nature through motion.Once completed you'll be ready to dive deeper into other Rewild Movement offerings.

Why Join This Life-Changing Course?

Course Highlights

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When: The Natural Movement Course runs Wednesday evenings 6.00pm – 7.15pm over 5 weeks, April 30th – May 28th

Where: CERES Environment Park grounds

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Investment: $330 – Limited Early Bird discounts available! The Wilding Project is excited to partner with CERES on this event and a percentage of your investment goes directly to fund CERES work and mission.

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Event Description

Our bodies evolved to interact with the natural landscape - to bend, swing, balance and respond to the unique challenges of the environment. By taking our movement practice into nature, we can explore the full range of our body’s natural patterns of movement. We become more agile, powerful, strong and balanced. You’ll be surprised at what your body is capable of.This is a movement you can do anywhere - at home, in your local park or even right here at CERES. When exercise isn’t constrained to the gym, we become free to do it more regularly, creating a daily movement practice that supports fitness and long-term health.

Why learn how to move naturally?

Part one: An introduction to natural movement & human rewilding

A brief overview on the origins of natural movement and wild parkour drawing on Damien’s PhD research on movement and human rewilding.

Part two: Let’s move, naturally

Explore the fundamentals of natural movement learn ways to integrate these movements into your daily life to move more mindfully.

The Wilding Project on Tedx

This CERES presentation draws from Damien's PhD research and builds upon the ideas and insights presented at TEDxPerth 2018: It's time to re-wild your body | Damien Norris | TEDxPerth

BAREFOOT SERVICES

BAREFOOT benefits

The benefits of including barefoot practices into your lifestyle are extensive; from improvements in balance, proprioception, and body awareness to cognitive health. PLUS, it connects you with the EARTH.

BUT, transitioning from a SHOD life to a barefoot one is a process. And we are here to help.

barefoot science

Our findings suggest that barefoot walking can be a particularly effective form of aerobic exercise for improving cognitive function and brain health in adolescents.

Barefoot walking can activate the enteric nervous system, increase brain blood flow, and stimulate the toes to activate nerve cells in the sensory cortex, thalamus, and cerebellum, leading to improved overall cognitive ability.

Furthermore, barefoot walking stimulates the toes more than walking in sneakers, thereby enhancing lower skeletal muscle strength. These mechanisms can facilitate increased blood flow to the brain.

[A] reduction in mental fatigue and brain stress observed in the barefoot group suggests that this form of exercise may be particularly useful for individuals who experience high levels of stress or mental fatigue.

Excerpt from: 'Barefoot walking improves cognitive ability in adolescents'

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Shoespiracy, was made with the some of the biggest brains connected to feet and barefoot science today, including professors, doctors, bio-mechanists, movement experts, opinion formers and cobblers.

A taste of the range

When you can't liberate your toes, there is a VIVO that has you covered (with feeling): dress, active, hike, gym and more. Go barefoot in style.

We can help you choose a shoe, and guide you into a barefoot world.

Fire Workshop & Home

Gather the family around the hearth, invite your community, bring your friends and learn the story of our connection with FIRE and how to make it using friction fire.

We are the only species that makes fire but we are not the only species to use it.

Courses, Workshops and Seminars Made to suit

The Wild Project adds depth, meaning and significance to its ecological and ancestral skills sessions by introducing all topics with ritual, ceremony and somatic practices. Sessions are interactive, informative and experiential.Learn to welcome ancient fire, create bush shelters, make cordage from natural fibers, whittle, weave and craft.

You will also be invited to move and feel the connection between body, land and the kinaesthetic history behind the movements necessary to practice ecological and ancestral skills.