Explore new nature-based experiences in the beautiful Surf Coast and Otway Ranges. With your local facilitator, your experience will be a one-of-a-kind nature immersion experience. Your host, Aleisja, is a local to the Otway Ranges, now residing on the Surf Coast.

Otways Wilderness Connection offers a unique cultivation of beautiful nature-based experiences. Aleisja, will facilitate the space for you to connect with self and other like-minded folks, and feel into a deep sense of awe and connection with nature. Through yoga, guided nature walks, meditation, and group co-design, you will explore ways to connect with self, nature and community. Your experience will guide you on a journey as you explore your own unique practices and ways to honour and protect nature, and how to integrate these into your daily life and community.

 Combining her passion and experience in yoga, with the added touch of deep local knowledge, Aleisja provides a unique offering. She is constantly researching sustainable ways of living, the emotional benefits of biophilia, social change, community connection, and collective activism. Her passion, care and expertise has led to the design of these artfully cultivated experiences that are relevant to people's needs for reconnection to self, community and nature.

 Aleisja has a broad set of skills and experience, currently working as an engagement and human-centred design specialist in government. Her skills include stakeholder engagement (IAP2 practitioner certified), program coordination, workshop design and facilitation, and human-centred design, including co-design practices. Additionally, Aleisja is 200-hour registered yoga teacher qualified, as well as 50-hour yin yoga teacher qualified, plus Certificate III and IV in Fitness qualified. Aleisja's formal education includes a Bachelor of Science (Psychology), and she is currently studying Environmental Science (Environmental Resource Management).