Wild Circle Guides and Teachers

Tim Hutton has lived and worked on the land for the last 30 years. He is an artist and photographer as well as a professional yurt builder, spoon carver, and woodsman.

He has trained with John Ryder at the Woodcraft School and qualified as a Bushcraft and Nature awareness Instructor in 2008. He completed a Facilitators Course and Wild Mindfulness Course with Natural Change, a Basic Guide Training Course with Way of Nature, and completed The Art of Mentoring, Rings 1 and 2.

In 2023 Tim completed the year long Circle of Trees, a deep exploration of the Wheel of the Year with Marianne Siddons Heginworth. This work has brought him back to Art as a way of working deeply with Nature and with other people. He has recently exhibited at Photocanopy in Burton on Trent and has a collection of Photographs in the National Forest Archive.

Margaret Kerr is trained as a psychotherapist, researcher and outdoor educator. She is also an artist, and is currently studying for a Masters in Art and Humanities at Dundee University.

Her work is focused on strengthening connections between people and the rest of nature, and on weaving together different ways of understanding the world.

Linda Shabtai has walked a path with the trees for many years and her innate earth wisdom and intuition enables her to offer a truly holistic approach within the Wild Circle.

Born in Kenya surrounded by animals and the African Bush, her connection with nature began at a very young age. She later taught scuba diving in the Red Sea for many years introducing people to the wonders of the ocean. Linda accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience of nature both above and under water and has since settled in our Cornish lands.

Linda joined the Wild Circle core team after coming on the first Wild Circle retreat. She is also a highly skilled and intuitive reflexologist and massage therapist. Linda infuses the retreats with her warmth, sensitivity and deep sense of calm. An empathetic listener, she brings a profound life affirming presence to everything she is involved with.

After working for many years in project management in the City, Jenny Jones decided to dedicate her business and organisational skills into arranging something a little closer to her heart, retreats!

Jenny has been practicing yoga for over a decade and trained to be a yoga teacher in 2015. She is a fully qualified 200 hour Yoga Alliance, Yoga and Mindfulness instructor who trained with Gemma Mallol, Blanche Mulholland, Marcela Wakeham and Nora Belton in Ibiza, Spain. Jenny studied Somatic and Scaravelli Yoga styles while attending the ‘Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training’ course, and gained insight into Buddhist Principles of Mindfulness.

Jenny is drawn to Mindfulness teachings and is inspired by movement and playfulness within Yoga.

Edmund Phillips is very lucky to live on Dartmoor, and is returning to his families wild roots. Having worked in IT for 20 years, he had a great urge to reconnect with nature. Edmund brings together a lifelong love of the outdoors and a solid dose of Boy Scouting practices to explore how wild food can allow us to remember how to reconnect to a healthier, simpler, and more sustainable version of ourselves. He studied on a intensive year long Wild food course, and has been privileged to be able to have studied with many leading foraging teachers. Edmund blends a diverse range of wild food ideology with his own ideas and experiences, and aims to discover how we can get nourishment from the world around us.

Edmund has attended the Wild Circle retreats and is also student of Tim Hutton's yurt building courses. He practices mindfulness and body awareness techniques.