The Wild Pause

About The Wild Pause

Linda Prigarska is a certified Forest Bathing guide and founder of The Wild Pause, creating slow, immersive nature-based experiences that help people step out of the pace of everyday life, regulate their nervous system, and reconnect with nature and themselves. Her relationship with nature began in childhood, growing up in the Latvian countryside, where forests, meadows and outdoor life were part of everyday living. After moving to London and building a career in the corporate world, she came to understand first-hand how easily modern life can disconnect us from our bodies, our senses and the natural world. Linda trained with The Forest Bathing Institute in the UK and later with INFOM in Japan, where she was certified in shinrin-yoku by Dr Qing Li, one of the world’s leading researchers in forest medicine. Her work is rooted in both science and lived experience, drawing on research into the physiological and psychological benefits of time in nature, including stress reduction, attention restoration and nervous-system regulation. Through The Wild Pause, Linda guides forest bathing, sensory nature connection, meditation, reflective practices, gentle sound and tea rituals. Her sessions are spacious, unhurried and deeply grounding. There is nothing to achieve and nowhere to get to; simply an invitation to slow down, notice more, and experience what becomes possible when we give ourselves permission to pause. Her practice is especially suited to busy minds, people moving through stress or transition, and anyone longing for a more meaningful relationship with nature. Whether through public sessions, private experiences, retreats, workshops or workplace wellbeing, Linda’s work offers a gentle return to presence, connection and deep rest. At its heart, her work is a reminder that nature is not somewhere separate from us, but a place we can return to in order to remember ourselves.