WHO IS NAT DOWLING?
Good question. The answers continue to unfold on my journey to tune in to natural resonance and live in wild authenticity.
The path has not been without obstacles. But the alternative - life in a disconnected and inanimate world - meant being out of sync, out of sorts and out of place. That showed up as despair, purposelessness and a bunch of chronic illnesses, for which allopathic medicine could only offer band aids.
For many years I had a longing that I couldn’t quite articulate; just this gnawing sense that I was not ‘being’ as I was meant to be. I did not feel at ease with myself. Only later in life did I see how unresolved trauma and conditioning of the modern world had subdued my wildness and caged my heart and soul.
In 2013, the universe lured me home with a numinous nudge, while I was hiking on community lands in the NT. I said ‘yes’ to the possibility of opening without really knowing the terms of agreement. I’ve since been learning to trust that I don’t need to read the fine print. Just keep following the mystery and my soul’s unfolding, even when it’s crunchy.
That capacity only became possible with the guidance of mentors, deep listening, training, questing, integrating and a big soul descent. Along the way I’ve been gathering snippets of the wisdom strands that make sense for me. Earth, Story and Sound.
I initially qualified as a historian. After public sector work I launched Words on a Page in 2014. For a decade I facilitated client transformation through stories, writing and workshops.
Wander into Wildness dropped in as a thing during a 2017 vision quest. The business name sat fallow for a few years, waiting for me to catch up. Then, ‘ancient subterranean energy healing’ emerged as a path in 2018, during spiritual shamanic training with Tom Brown Jnr Tracker School.
That led me to become a diploma certified therapist with Sound Healing Academy. I’ve since undertaken mantra yoga sound training with Kia Miller. I’ve studied permaculture, and was in the inaugural cohort of the 10-month Nature-Based Leadership Program with CERES and Nature’s Apprentice.
I now creatively weave the threads together, generating connection and coherence with embodied, experiential and energising practices. My offerings bridge ancient wisdoms and modern science, intellect and intuition - with respect for craft, learning and lineage.
As I continue to deepen my own practices and work with clients, the earth healer medicine works in me, in a curious dance of reciprocity. Community connections grow tendrils. Collaborations emerge. New ways of being become possible. Whole. Wild. Well.
So. If you’ve got an itch, an inkling or a longing to find your way back to natural resonance, to bring heart and soul to life, restore connection or to make a new story for the world, maybe now it’s your turn to say ‘yes’.
SOUND HEALING | NATURE CONNECTION | STOrytelling | NATURAL INTELLIGENCE | wellbeing facilitator
“the wanderer seeks the hidden, the mysterious, the wild.”
— Bill Plotkin