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Instructor(s)
Trainer
Ronna Schneberger
Ronna has been a professional, award-winning naturalist, interpreter, and hiking guide in the Canadian Mountain Parks for 30 years, and a yoga teacher for 25. She has woven yoga, meditation, and coaching into her nature-based work with remarkable results. In her quest to understand why time in nature so easily creates powerful experiences, she discovered the ANFT and, in 2016, became one of Canada's first Forest Therapy guides—now serving as a trainer with the organization. Today, Ronna continues to guide in Banff and works with leaders, professionals, and executives from around the world, using nature as the teacher to spark reflection and transformation. She is also Chair of Nature and Forest Therapy of Canada, supporting local guides and promoting the practice nationwide alongside her team.
Tam Willey (they/them) is an international trainer and mentor of guides with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, certified with ANFT in 2017. Informed by their background as an artist, musician, woodworking instructor, skateboarder, LGBTQIA+ youth advisor, and community advocate, Tam is passionate about relational health, bioregional herbalism, community supported agriculture, fermentation, and rites of passage. They explore themes of belonging and attention through story and immersive ways of being together, tending community partnerships across Turtle Island and locally in Jamaica Plain, Boston, where they've lived since 1998. From half-day outings to multi-day retreats, Tam guides across urban and wilder bioregions. They hold CPR, Wilderness First Aid, and Nature Therapy Guide certifications. Learn more: ToadstoolWalks.com
Marcela Morales is a certified Forest Therapy guide and trainer with ANFT, with academic studies in Anthropology and Management of Natural Resources. For over 20 years, she worked as a licensed naturalist and birdwatching guide in the cloud forest mountains of Monteverde, Costa Rica, collaborating with the Environmental Education department of the Tropical Science Center and serving as an internship supervisor for the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). Now living on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast, Marcela offers holistic wellness, culture, and nature connection experiences that weave together her many passions—Forest Bathing walks, Sound Healing sessions, Qi Gong classes, naturalist tours, and immersive experiences within Bribri Indigenous territory, honoring both the land and its people.