About Wild Heart Nature Connection
I attended a Forest Therapy Guide training intensive in 2017, following my retirement from the corporate world as a manager of management and leadership development. I immediately asked myself what the heck was I doing there among botanists and naturalists and others I felt were more experienced and knowledgeable than me? And then, I was led on my first forest therapy walk by M. Amos Clifford of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs.
I instantly knew I was home again.
My wild heart re-awakened, never to go back to sleep.
I want to invite that for everyone who has ever thought about their wild heart, the heart they had a child, in connection with everything, and wondered where it's gone.
Linda Lombardo is a certified forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT), and a certified Master Naturalist through Quality Parks on Long Island, NY.
Linda was the first certified Forest Therapy guide on Long Island, NY, back in 2017 when not too many people knew what forest therapy was. She quickly built relationships with local arboretums and preserves, because they recognized how different her expertise was and how essential it was to the community and care of the land they stewarded.
Linda drew on her years of leadership expertise, becoming the official Forest Therapy Guide for organizations like TENWOMENSTRONG, FULL SPAN LEADERSHIP, and GRACE CHASERS, offering programs for personal and professional empowerment along the East coast.
Linda is also a certified life coach through the Coaches Training Institute (2001). Partnering with the forest to support her coaching clients is wild heart experience for them and for Linda.
Listen to Linda's interview about forest therapy with ONE, the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries:
https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/teleseminars-1/2019/9/15/forest-walk
Linda Lombardo is a certified forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT), and a certified Master Naturalist through Quality Parks on Long Island, NY.
Linda was the first certified Forest Therapy guide on Long Island, NY, back in 2017 when not too many people knew what forest therapy was. She quickly built relationships with local arboretums and preserves, because they recognized how different her expertise was and how essential it was to the community and care of the land they stewarded.
Linda drew on her years of leadership expertise, becoming the official Forest Therapy Guide for organizations like TENWOMENSTRONG, FULL SPAN LEADERSHIP, and GRACE CHASERS, offering programs for personal and professional empowerment along the East coast.
Linda is also a certified life coach through the Coaches Training Institute (2001). Partnering with the forest to support her coaching clients is wild heart experience for them and for Linda.
Listen to Linda's interview about forest therapy with ONE, the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries:
https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/teleseminars-1/2019/9/15/forest-walk
Photo courtesy of Carol Mossa, Earth's School of Love
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Orb photos by Diane McCarthy, See with My Heart Photography
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Photo courtesy of Taralynn Reynold, Group for the East End
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"Thank you Linda for a totally enjoyable day! I received peace, calm and yet energy from the day's walk and "therapy" from the trees. I went home and walked another 2 miles with the dog!!!
Hope to see you again."
D., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, NY
Hope to see you again."
D., Bayard Cutting Arboretum, NY
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"I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the walk, you and our group last Sunday. It was a wonderful afternoon and I slept great that night. I am so looking forward to another walk with you."
LL., Sands Point Preserve, LI
LL., Sands Point Preserve, LI
How I go to the woods
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems