Nature is a very generous and wise guide and teacher. She shows me that there’s a time for simplicity and a time for complexity, a time for growing and a time for resting, a time to endure and a time to let go. Each thing has its place, it's time and its purpose. Often it is what we cannot see that actually holds everything together.
Her Story
Jen Blenkinsop is an Occupational Therapist with over 30 years of experience on three continents. She has worked in the fields of hand and upper limb rehabilitation, oncology and lymphoedema, pain management, breathing retraining and substance misuse.
She is deeply passionate about nature and the environment, having been on expeditions in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. She is also a Field Guides Association of South Africa (FGASA) Level 1 guide, and a certified Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy Guide.
She completed the BradCliff Breathing Method Level 1 and 2 training in 2023, after completing the course Breathwork for Human Potential with Jessica Dibb and Dr Dan Siegal and Foundations in Breathwork with Dr Ela Manga. She has additional qualifications in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, and has attended training courses in Sensory Intelligence ®, Heart-rate variability and coherence, counselling and many others.
When not working Jen can be found mountain bike riding, hiking, birding, travelling, working in her garden, enjoying good food and spending time with friends and family.
Jen has participated in medical and non-medical humanitarian projects in Benin, Uganda, Bosnia, Haiti and South Africa.