your guides
TIM HUTTON
Tim has lived and worked on the land for the last 25 years. He is a qualified Bushcraft and Nature Awareness instructor, professional yurt builder, spoon carver, woodsman, and horseman.
He has trained with John Ryder at the Woodcraft School and qualified as a Bushcraft and Nature awareness Instructor in 2008. He completed a Facilitators Course and Wild Mindfulness Course with Natural Change, a Basic Guide Training Course with Way of Nature, and completed The Art of Mentoring, Rings 1 and 2. He practices mindfulness and is currently training to be a life coach.
LINDA SHABTAI
Linda Shabtai has walked a path with the trees for many years and her innate earth wisdom and intuition enables her to offer a truly holistic approach within the Wild Circle.
Born in Kenya surrounded by animals and the African Bush, her connection with nature began at a very young age. She later taught scuba diving in the Red Sea for many years introducing people to the wonders of the ocean. Linda accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience of nature both above and under water and has since settled in our Cornish lands.
Linda joined the Wild Circle core team after coming on the first Wild Circle retreat. She is also a highly skilled and intuitive reflexologist and massage therapist. Linda infuses the retreats with her warmth, sensitivity and deep sense of calm. An empathetic listener, she brings a profound life affirming presence to everything she is involved with.
JENNY JONES
After working for many years in project management in the City, Jenny Jones decided to dedicate her business and organisational skills into arranging something a little closer to her heart, retreats!
Jenny has been practicing yoga for over a decade and trained to be a yoga teacher in 2015. She is a fully qualified 200 hour Yoga Alliance, Yoga and Mindfulness instructor who trained with Gemma Mallol, Blanche Mulholland, Marcela Wakeham and Nora Belton in Ibiza, Spain. Jenny studied Somatic and Scaravelli Yoga styles while attending the ‘Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training’ course, and gained insight into Buddhist Principles of Mindfulness.
Jenny is drawn to Mindfulness teachings and is inspired by movement and playfulness within Yoga.
EDMUND PHILLIPS
Edmund is very lucky to live on Dartmoor, and is returning to his families wild roots. Having worked in IT for 20 years, he had a great urge to reconnect with nature. Edmund brings together a lifelong love of the outdoors and a solid dose of Boy Scouting practices to explore how wild food can allow us to remember how to reconnect to a healthier, simpler, and more sustainable version of ourselves. He studied on a intensive year long Wild food course, and has been privileged to be able to have studied with many leading foraging teachers. Edmund blends a diverse range of wild food ideology with his own ideas and experiences, and aims to discover how we can get nourishment from the world around us.
Edmund has attended the Wild Circle retreats and is also student of Tim Hutton's yurt building courses. He practices mindfulness and body awareness techniques.
DAISY MARTINEZ
Daisy Martinez lives in the West of Scotland and is a woodworker with experience in boat building, traditional oak timber-framing and letter carving. She recently completed her boat building apprenticeship with Glasgow's Tall Ship at Riverside, where she worked with a team of fellow apprentices to build a 22 ft ‘Captains Gig’. Daisy loves to build with others in community; she is a co-director of Archipelago Folkschool CIC, and works regularly as a facilitator with the School for Experiential Learning in Devon. Daisy is currently working with friends to build a fleet of traditional coracles for a Scottish Highland coracle adventure! Learn to make a coracle and sail it on the estuary!
JACQUI CHANDLER
Jacqui was initiated into dreamwork 26 years ago, when she completed training in Transformative Dreamwork. Since then, she has trained as a Gestalt psychotherapist, as well as learning from dreamwork teachers from a variety approaches and traditions.
She has also received teachings from her own dreams and those of her clients. Jacqui started facilitating dream groups in 1999, and over the last few years has offered ongoing Dream Circles in West Penwith. Her approach to dreams is both respectful and creative. She aims to hold the space for people to learn the symbolic language of their own dreams and to connect with the unique wisdom they hold.
MARGARET KERR
Margaret is trained as a psychotherapist, researcher and outdoor educator. She also works as an artist, and is currently studying for a Masters in Art and Humanities at Dundee University.
Her work is focused on strengthening connections between people and the rest of nature, and on weaving together different ways of understanding the world.