The Natural Life-stylist

08/09/2026

Me: How does this sound Katarina. I’ve found a 4500km running route. It would mean taking roughly 2 months out the diary to complete it.

Katarina: Sounds great, but we’re not doing it.

06/09/2026

The simple things in life…

There’s a reason why in all those nature immersion studies that theres a drop in heart rate and blood pressure and that within just 20 minutes we enter a parasympathetic state.

For 95% of our evolution we were an outdoor nature based experience rich species.

Now we spend 95% of our time as an (IIREP) indoor-information-rich-experience-poor species.

Our world is changing at record speed and people from all walks of life are grappling with a rise in loneliness, chronic stress and information-rich-experience-poor lifestyle burnout and fatigue.

As we have become more digitally connected, we have become more disconnected from ourselves, each other and our environment.

Our modern world often involves high-dopamine, low-effort activities (like social media scrolling) that ‘burnout’ dopamine receptors, leading to a state where the connection between action and reward is severed, leaving us unmotivated, depressed and anxious, seeking more information to soothe and pacify the dis-ease.

Etymologically speaking, the word “disease” literally means an absence of ease, making “ease” the literal opposite to disease.

One of the “easiest” experience rich practises is to start the day with the pairing of breathing and staring at the morning sun. And if you’re feeling really daring and want to risk breaking out the 16:9 domesticated cage with the invisible bars, you can even throw in some movement to make it a life giving trifecta.

And then you could be even more daring and……

Try scheduling some real-time-sky-time experiences, over your reel-time-screen-time-scroll-time experience.

01/09/2026

Happy Chooseday

28/08/2026

🦎 Low Lizard and Gymnastic Ring Push Ups.

27/08/2026

6 million years ago, there was a divergence (if you believe in evolution that is). Our ancestors made a pivotal shift from quadrupedal to bipedal living? This marked the beginning of our journey as upright beings!

Fast forward to about 200,000 years ago, and Homo Sapiens emerged as the most competent and capable of all the bipedal naked apes.

(remembering that all of the above still resides in our primordial database really helps shift our perception of our capabilities and competency and understanding of our human potential).

However, between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago, another divergence occurred from hunter gatherer to farmer and our lifestyles began to change dramatically, leading to a decline in natural lifestyle habits and our connection to our natural habitat.

In the past two centuries, another huge divergence occurred and we’ve dramatically shifted from living and expressing ourselves naturally to a more confined, comfortable and convenient existence.

95% of our time is spent indoors and 81.5% of our time is spent sedentary, mostly sit on chairs or sofas, where we seek to outsource everything, even to the point we’re willing to hand our next divergence over to AI in the pursuit of even more comfort and convenience from our world.

This habitat shift has turned us into domesticated Sapiens, often unaware of the invisible bars that keep us caged in.

💡 Our Mission at NatLifeCoach is to help you recognise where the invisible bars to your cages are, and then reawaken you to the rich tapestry of your evolutionary expression.

Whether we like it or not there’s another huge divergence coming.

But what if this next divergence provides the all important space we need as humans to remember what it was like before we entered the cage.

Who’s wants out the cage?

26/08/2026

23/08/2026

Day at the beach

Captured by Nick Hopper

19/08/2026

New York Tripping 2026

There’s really nothing like New York for testing where one is really at with their self regulating practices 😂

With a 6 hour flight and a 5 hour time difference you get hit with the full sensory overload.

Our nervous systems were giving it full on WTF vibes before we remembered the obvious solution was to get to Central Park. And after getting grounded and finding our breath we were ready to put the New back into The Zoo York.

I took the RiddleSisters with me on this epic mission. We spent 24 hours in NYC before heading to The Berkshires to hold a phenomenal 3 day retreat at an even more phenomenal space called ‘The Thyme’.

After closing The Be More Human retreat we headed back to the city for another 72 and had an absolutely awesome time of it and found a good balance of sites, food, shops and more time dipping in and out of Central Park to keep our feet on the ground.

Incredible to think that Central Park was carved out of bedrock in the 1800’s by 20,000 workers using just picks, shovels and carts and that they planted over a 100,000 trees.

Also mind blowing is that the Empire State Building was built in just one year, and that it was also built in the Great Depression and remained the tallest building in the world for 40 years.

Its a great city to explore on foot and we were averaging 20k steps per day, which certainly helped mitigate what felt like 20k calories per day 😂

Can’t wait for the next time we land the Be More Human Experience at The Thyme to have another check in of where I am with my self regulating practices.

You know the quote by Ram Dass: “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”

Well it’s a bit like….If you think you’re self regulated, go spend sown time in NYC!