EcoNIDRA™ Teacher

Kat Mertens

EcoNIDRA, Forest Therapy, TreeClimbing Therapy

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

English, Dutch, Czech

About

Kat is the originator, trainer and heart-keeper of EcoNIDRA™, ANFT Certified Forest Therapy Guide, European TreeClimbing Therapist and Gemmotherapy Practitioner. Her passion and mission are to help people reconnect deeply with nature, including their inner nature and the nature of their own body. Her mission is to spread awareness about and the felt sense of deep nature connection as a tool to improve people's mental, emotional and physical well-being, as well as the well-being of the more-than-human world. Matching our heartbeat to the beat of the planet can change the world. As a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Kat has guided more than 500 groups in both private and corporate settings. As a former ANFT Forest Therapy trainer and EcoNIDRA™ founder, Kat has trained hundreds of people to become Forest Therapy or EcoNIDRA™ guides. As a certified European TreeClimbing Therapist, she has been guiding safe, self-paced tree-climbing experiences in the connective and relational Forest Therapy style: the tree is the therapist and the relationship is being formed by embodied relating. She offers EcoNIDRA™ trainings and sessions (in hammocks) worldwide, and tree climbing and forest bathing for individuals and groups in the Netherlands where she lives together with her husband, young son, old cat and 100+ plants.