Lets Step In, Macclesfield (2026)

17/05/2026

Forest-bathing at Alderley Edge National Trust yesterday 🐌 ✨

The most gentlest of walks yesterday, I was joined by two friends, a gift from one to another.

Two women who spin many plates ~ work, family, children, life… constantly in thinking, planning, giving and being productive. Always thinking about the step four ahead.

Normally my forest-bathing walks are fully booked weeks ahead which I’m very grateful for. When I see a small booking for 2 or 4 I know this space is meant for us only.

Yesterday was absolute confirmation that this space will be what it needs to be for those who are there.

We went so slowly, once they’d settled into the practice and noticed the difference forest-bathing was making to both what they were experiencing within the woods and how they felt within themselves they embraced this time for this with open arms.

Lying on a tree to be held and supported, hugging a tree to feel the energy travelling through the tree into their body. Being with a bumble bee hoovering over the earth, taking in the beauty of a magpie’s emerald tail.

Standing in stillness, lying in rest, pausing to be.

In doing so emotional were released, worries and wants shared with the woods, a deeper understanding of the chapter they were in.

Mind, body and soul revived 🙏🏼

So grateful for these mornings shared together, how special they are.

👉🏼 next forest-bathing walk Saturday 13th June 10am-1pm
With cacao tea amongst the trees, 10% of ticket goes to National Trust charity.

I wonder who will join me 💫

With love,
Amanda

15/05/2026

We gather on Monday night for the next New Moon Reset 🌑

If you're looking for some space to gently pause you're so welcome to join us there.

For guided meditation, cacao and moonthly intention setting through journaling to mark the quiet beginning of a beautiful new lunar cycle ✨

Gifting yourself a natural moment to slow down, turn inward and connect with what is ready to emerge in the weeks ahead 🌱

📆Monday 18th May
7-8.15pm
£12
1 tree planted with each ticket
Join your first session for free (use code FIRSTFREE)

You don't need to drink cacao to join, you're welcome to bring your fav herbal tea instead (both participants whose words I've shared joined with tea not cacao)

🔗 link in bio or drop "Moon" below

With love,
Amanda

13/05/2026

We're back in the woods on Saturday for Forest-Bathing at Alderley Edge National Trust.

Here's what previous participants shared about the morning:

🌿"Forest-bathing with Amanda provided some much needed time to be silent, to decompress and to allow nature to restore you"

🌿"Experiencing the woodland in this way is so completely different to going for a walk"

🌿"I took a lot from the session that I now incorporate into my daily walks"

What even is Forest-Bathing?! 🌳

Forest-bathing, or Shinrin-Yoku as it’s known in Japan, means “to bathe in the atmosphere of the forest or to take in the forest through our senses”

More than just a walk in the woods, this mindful and deeply restorative practice invites you to slow down, become present and awaken your senses. Helping you to switch off from everyday distractions to notice all that is within you and that surrounds you in the natural world.

Suitable for all ages and fitness levels, it offers a welcome pause from daily life - whether as a moment to unplug and simply be or as a path to self-discovery, healing and gentle restoration.

Step into the sanctuary of the woods and discover a fresh perspective, restored wellbeing, and renewed energy with the proven benefits of forest-bathing.

Please note: This practice is about immersing yourself in the atmosphere of nature -there is no swimming involved!

📆2026 Dates:
16th May
13th June
18th July
22nd August
19th September
26th September (full moon night walk)
17th October (silent theme)
21st November

🔗link in bio to find out more

See you in the woods!

Amanda

10/05/2026

It's not too late to get involved....

In support of Mental Health Awareness Week 🧠

Starting tomorrow until Friday I'll be sharing a series of simple yet powerful nature-based practices - the ones that have genuinely changed me and continue to hold me when the darkness creeps in - with my e-mail community.

5 practices guided by my voice for you to lean on whenever you need.

If you'd like to receive this too drop me a nature emoji below or by private message 🌿🌳🌼🌞🔥

With love,

Amanda

09/05/2026

“Between every two pines is the doorway to a new world” join me for the therapeutic walking practice of forest-bathing ‘shinrin-yoku’ ~ to be immersed in the atmosphere of the forest or nature.

A morning in the woods that does wonders for your mental, physical and emotional or spiritual health 💚

Walks run monthly and include cacao tea with a beautiful mother tree to close our time together.

Join me to “loose your mind and find your soul”, 2026 dates are:

16th May
13th June
18th July
22nd August
19th September
17th October
21st November

🔗 in bio

Full details about forest-bathing can be found on my website too

See you amongst the trees,
Amanda

Forest therapy guide and licences forest bathing practitioner to National Trust at Alderley Edge 🌿

07/05/2026

Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week (11-17 May) 💚

I find myself so aware that this week approaches.

Reflecting a lot recently on my own journey with mental health.

The impact it’s had on me & my life. The lows & high. The dramatic decisions & changes I’ve made because I was scared of where my mental health would take me.

I don’t share much about it, we all have our own stories with mental health - we all have a mind after all & so to some degree we all experience the ups & downs. Some feel it more than others.

It’s been my mental wellbeing that has driven all my big changes & has shaped the life I live now. As well as the nature work I’m so passionate about sharing so that others find the release, comfort, gratitude, peace… that I now know.

It’s a continual journey of course. I’ve by no means got it all figured out & I will always be managing my mind to some degree or another. As with life it ebbs & flows.

But I’m feeling it more than I usually do - it’s hard not to in the world we live in. The mess that we have created.

5 years ago in 2021 I held my first forest-bathing walk for a group, how apt it was to start sharing the support of nature with others on this special week.

With my hand on my heart I can say that nature saved me.

Nature has held me through my lows, released the pressure I feel. She’s shown me the trickle of light ahead in the dark woods.

Nature presented to me a brand new path & it was Mother Nature that I trusted in when I didn’t have faith in myself to say yes.

This morning my feelings ran too strong to hold my usual practice & so I kept things simple, took a breath & said thank you. Sometimes this is all we need to do.

🌟Next week I am gifting my e-mail community a series of practices, the simple yet powerful ones that have changed me & continue to hold me when the the darkness creeps in.

👉🏼 if you’d like to receive them too please DM me your email address & it will be an honour to share.

I’ll be ending MHAW with a 🌳forest-bathing session 🌳- there are spaces available if you’d like to join (🔗in bio). I can feel how special this morning will be.

Love,
Amanda

04/05/2026

May Offerings 🌸

Sharing this month's upcoming events and offerings to help guide you on a nature-led pathway to heart, harmony and connection with yourself, nature and each other.

🌸 May Events
16th May ~ Forest-Bathing Morning & Cacao Tea at Alderley Edge National Trust
18th May ~ New Moon Reset: Cacao, Meditation, Journaling & Deep Rest - Online
28th May ~ FULLY BOOKED Meditation & Deep Rest at Tegg’s Nose Country Park

To book visit: https://www.letsstepin.com/events

🌸 1:1 Support & Sacred Space (ongoing & one-off sessions available)

ONE-OFF SESSIONS:
🌟 Lean on the fiery Summer energy...

~ 1:1 Wellbeing Re-Set (1hr) ~ A calm, supportive space to pause, take stock of your wellbeing, and reset.

~ 1:1 Cacao Heart Connection (1.5hrs includes cacao) ~ Move beyond the noise of the mind to hear the wisdom of your heart.

~ 1:1 Visioning Your Heart's Path (2.5hrs includes cacao) ~ Deepen into connection with your heart and future path.

ONGOING SUPPORT:
🌟 2 x 1:1 journey client openings currently available With regular sessions, at home guidance and support in-between...

1:1 Elements of Wellbeing - 6-week structured and transformational programme designed to help you step out of stress and into a more balanced, steady way of living.

1:1 In To The Heart - A bespoke path for those who feel called to deepen their connection with themselves and explore the path their heart is guiding them towards.

PLUS:
🌸 Nature-Based Facilitator Support
🌸 Workplace Wellbeing
🌸 At Home Support

Private message me anytime if you've questions or would like direct links to find out more.

Wishing you a beautiful, vibrant month

See you amongst the trees soon,

With love,

Amanda

01/05/2026

Today is Beltane 🔥

The peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer 🌿

Known as the Festival of Fertility, when the earth is at its most active. The land is vibrant and alive, nature at its most fertile. Life is being outwardly expressed as nature grows into fullness all across the land.

It's a time we would have celebrated this potent time by being out on the land, dancing around the fire, and being passionate in the woods in honour of the union between the feminine and masculine.

It is also the flower full moon today, a Scorpio sign - a water element that connects us deeply with our emotions.

So if you feel more over these coming days, please go gently with yourself. Be brave to carve out some space to listen to the wisdom within, and what your feelings are wishing to communicate with you right now.

Perhaps they're highlighting something you've held onto for too long - and you're being urged to let it blow away with the winds. Or perhaps there is guidance here for how you can step forwards into the peak season with more heart, courage or clarity.

If you'd like to take some time for you and explore the energy of the season you can buy my mini-guide to Beltane in my store - use link in bio for "store"

Wishing you a beautiful long weekend whatever you do!

See if you can spot the signs of Beltane out in nature.

With love,

Amanda

30/04/2026

Do you ever feel it - that longing to just... stop? ✋

Not because you’re 😊 but because something deep within, or an ache in your body, knows that this pace we inherited just isn’t really ours.

The world we live in is so noisy.

We’re kept busy - too busy - through impossible to-do lists, technology that never stops changing, social media filling our eyes and minds with information not necessarily tethered to truth.

All one big never-ending distraction from what matters most.

And yet somehow, in all that busyness, so many of us are lonely.

Last winter, one of the threads that ran through my Elements of Wellbeing programme was that most participants felt lonely - despite having full lives with too much to fit in. It stayed with me, and I feel it too.

This year I’ve felt a strong pull to slow down (even more!)

As spring arrived I didn’t feel the usual readiness to speed up - I felt the opposite. A need to go gently. To loosen the grip on old ways of being and trust what’s underneath.

At first this was unnerving, worrying even - with thoughts of how I should feel at this time in the seasons creeping in. Normal would be the bubbling of active energy, feeling ready to be outward as the land wakes and the sun shines brighter.

Perhaps the greatest act of rebellion we can make right now is to slow down.

To turn off the noise long enough to hear our own heartbeat, our own truth - and from there, hear the heartbeat of the earth beneath our feet. The heart of us all.

I long for a small world where we are truly together. Connected, generously present in each other’s lives.

As summer begins tomorrow, nature flows more into peak, how curious it is to feel this way.

🌿 If this is speaking to your heart, I’d love to walk slowly alongside you. I have just 2 spaces remaining for a 1:1 Sacred Journey - a personalised path of deepened connection and becoming, working with the land, the seasons and your own inner wisdom. Online or in person, at a pace that truly honours where you are.

Book a call and let’s explore it together.

And a beautiful calendar of select, spacious group events over the warmer months ahead (links in bio).

With love,

Amanda

28/04/2026

Day & Night ~ A Gathering For Women ~ For Summer Solstice!

Cacao... fire... women... celebrating... sleeping out... sacred morning... nature 💓💓💓

I can’t wait to gather this way, I’ve been asked to hold sleep outs on the land for a while now and this year it's time!

The gathering is intended to feel spacious and deeply nourishing - like a mini retreat that offers you time to breathe and reconnect with yourself and the season within community.

A chance to gather in the ancient way, remembering the deep medicine of slowing down and sharing space.

Together we’ll spend the evening around the fire - the busyness of life will gently fade into the background as the sounds of nature, the crackling fire, and the warm companionship of women become our rhythm.

We’ll share heart-opening cacao made on the fire, gentle ritual, offerings, and conversation with quiet reflection and joyful celebration beneath the open sky.

As night falls, you’ll settle into your tent or sleeping space on the land for a peaceful night under the stars.

Waking in the morning to the birds, we’ll stir slowly, quietly, wandering with a cup of tea, sitting with a tree, or simply feeling the air on your skin.

Gathering together for a guided practice to greet the new day with cacao and meditation before breakfast.

There’ll be time to wander the land, enjoy guided creative practices, be with the trees, or simply rest in the warmth and presence of the women gathered together.

I'd love to gather and celebrate the summer solstice with you.

More info via: https://www.letsstepin.com/events/summer-solstice-womens-fire-gathering-overnight

Find Out More:
⛺Limited Spaces
📆20-21 June
🕰Fire starts at 6pm on Saturday (land opens from 3pm to set up camp and settle in), we close around noon on Sunday (with time afterwards to pack up)

❓Any questions please ask, full information will be given after booking for what to bring and more details around camping. This is going to be really special and if you feel called to experience this I'd love nothing more than for you to be there.

With love,
Amanda

27/04/2026

The Nature Business Circle began last week ⭕🌿

10 businesses from around the UK and Ireland gathered for our 1st circle, as we journey through the rest of the year together.

10 passionate souls who hold a deep connection to nature, have experienced personally how nature can change lives and who all wish to share how nature can support others within their communities.

Each business approach and offering unique - from funded projects to corporate wellbeing, from creative interactions to healing immersion.

Together we set the circle foundations ~ reciprocity at the heart ~ supporting others and being supported, giving and receiving generously, being open to the unfolding of the year ahead, showing up for yourself and your business perfectly imperfectly as you are.

This is a space for community connection, developing supportive relationships with aligned others, having a sense of work buddies being by your side (as let's face it solopreneurship is a lonely place), no questions too small, accountability to take all the little steps that will carry you far, celebrating the wins, growing in confidence, building businesses, spreading the message of nature...

Like the trees, we stand taller, stronger, steadier not as one but when we're part of a forest 🌳

I can't wait to see how the trees in this community grow 🌱

👉🏼If you're interested to join the circle, please drop me a message or email [email protected] to be notified when the doors open for the next sun's cycle.

Warm wishes from the forest,

Amanda

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