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Walking with people between worlds

Ben Still —

Threshold Guide & Insight Herbalist

I support people moving through threshold moments: times when the old ways no longer work and the new way has not yet taken shape.

This may include vocational calling and soul work, spiritual crisis, illness, initiatory life transitions, or existential questioning. For those who feel drawn toward finding meaning, deep nature connection, and embodied healing.

My primary framework is Insight Herbalism: a relational, trauma-aware, and ritually-informed way of working with plants as living allies during times of change, enquiry, and transformation.

Alongside threshold guidance, I also offer Plant Connection & Ritual healing work for those seeking nature-based support in life and work.

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A Grounded, Relational Approach

This work is not about fixing or pushing toward outcomes.

Instead, it centres:

  • Embodied presence and nervous-system awareness

  • Listening to body, psyche, and imagination

  • Relationship with plants and the living world

  • Meaning-making

  • Integration that honours your pace

Insight Herbalism

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Plants are central in the work I offer.

In Insight Herbalism, plants are approached not as remedies to apply, but as living intelligences to be in relationship with. Supporting grounding, insight, and subtle transformation during times of transition and growth.

This work is a gentle, trauma‑aware, experiential approach to herbalism rooted in relationship.

helping you stay connected to your body and the wider web of life as change unfolds.

Insight Herbalism invites you into direct, embodied connection with plants, as we learn to listen, respond, and collaborate with the more-than-human.

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Ways We Might Work Together

One-to-One Threshold Support

Personal sessions offering grounded, compassionate accompaniment during times of transition - with Insight Herbalism being the central framework.

This work may support you if you are:

  • Navigating spiritual crisis or awakening

  • Living with illness and seeking support alongside medical care

  • exploring vocation, identity, or direction

  • Moving through grief, parenthood, separation, or major life change

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Plant Connection & Ritual Healing

Plant connection and simple ritual can offer ways of listening, marking change, and restoring relationship with body, psyche, and the living world.

This work may include:

  • Guided practices into relationship with specific plant allies

  • Insight Herbalism practices that support grounding and inner listening

  • Simple, non-performative ritual to mark transition or change

  • Earth-Honouring practices that support meaning and integration

All plant and ritual work is invitational, and responsive to where you are. Nothing is imposed, and everything is shaped collaboratively.

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Upcoming event…

Plant Pilgrim Server

A Journey Through the Celtic Wheel of the Year

A series of men’s circles exploring deep plant connection through the practice of Insight Herbalism.

at 42 Acres, Frome, Somerset

Feb 1 from 7pm to 9:30pm GMT

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