Linda Prigarska is a certified Forest Bathing guide and founder of The Wild Pause — creating slow, immersive experiences in nature that invite people to step out of the pace of everyday life, restore their connection with nature, and reconnect with themselves.

Her relationship with nature began in childhood, growing up in the Latvian countryside, where wild meadows, woodland and outdoor life were simply part of everyday living. After moving to London and building a career in the corporate world, that connection gradually became harder to hear beneath the pace and demands of city life.

During the pandemic, Linda found herself returning to nature. Discovering forest bathing gave a name and a framework to something she had instinctively known since childhood: that slowing down in nature can change the way we feel and relate to ourselves.

Linda went on to train with The Forest Bathing Institute in the UK and later with INFOM (International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine) in Japan, where she was certified directly by Dr Qing Li, the world’s leading researcher in forest medicine and a pioneer in the scientific study of shinrin-yoku.

Today, through The Wild Pause, Linda creates guided woodland experiences in Richmond Park and beyond, weaving sensory forest bathing with breath, meditation, mindful stillness, gentle sound and tea rituals.

Her approach is informed by the growing body of research into the physiological and psychological effects of spending time in nature with an emphasis on stress reduction, attention restoration and overall nervous-system regulation.

But The Wild Pause is about more than understanding the science.

It is about experiencing what can happen when we stop rushing through nature and begin to truly notice it — the sound of leaves moving overhead, the texture of bark beneath our hands, the rhythm of our own breath, and the quiet that becomes possible when there is nowhere else we need to be.

Linda’s sessions are gentle, spacious and unhurried. There is nothing to achieve and nowhere to get to — simply an invitation to slow down, reconnect with nature and the senses, and discover what becomes noticeable when we give ourselves permission to pause.