Catriona
MacGregor

In need of deep-forest rejuvenation, I attended Catriona MacGregor's Nature Quest. Catriona led our group on journeys that filled my body, mind, and soul with beauty, light, warmth, and renewed energy. My heart opened and filled with the earth, the river and boulders, amazing trees, long vistas, birds and their songs, flowers, and star-filled nights. Her special programs were powerful and reached the core of my being. Catriona's calm and clear energy quickly helped me shift to a grounded and revitalized state of being. I feel so fortunate to have shared time with her in a healing, natural setting. This amazing woman is definitely the real deal!

Catriona is truly a wise woman who weaves her many life experiences, spirituality and intuition into a tapestry of hope. She is gentle, honest and provides a safe space for your dreams to grow and emotions to bound forward. I thank her for helping me to rediscover my dreams and find clarity and peace.

My deep wish going into the Vision Quest was to experience myself in nature free of the distractions of daily life. I discovered a reservoir of inner strength, clarity and fearlessness that I can now easily access in my day-to-day life. Catriona's attunement to each person's unique process created an atmosphere of trust and allowed me to surrender to each unfolding moment with an increasing sense of inner peace. There is no doubt that the Vision Quest is one of the most daring, rejuvenating and transformative practices I've ever done and I am profoundly grateful for the experience.

I just wanted to send you a huge thank you for organizing and leading our recent quest in Orkney. I feel truly honored to have spent the week with you, and to have shared such a joyous and exhilarating time with you and the group. Although my feet have barely touched the ground since I arrived back, my heart remains light and my thoughts are often in the north. I've come away with a much deeper understanding of myself, and a stronger idea of my potential. Something you said at the beginning of the quest, about being gentle with each other, has also kept with me (along with being gentle with myself, I think). Thank you again for such a life-changing and happy experience. Sending you a song of love and thanks.

My heart is overflowing with gratitude today. I truly believe the Universe led me to you and your wondrous retreat. I came seeking to love myself more fully and wholly and it's working. I feel as if I am awakening to my soul and really seeing who I am and feeling so joyous! You are such an inspiration to me. Your calm gentle way of teaching and the way you honored yourself during the weekend made a huge impression on me. You showed me there is a way to help and heal people without losing oneself. It is imperative that I honor and take care of me and then magic happens. I am the lotus rising from muddy waters to bloom and grow toward enlightenment. I cannot tell you all the insights I have had already that have come from connecting with nature. It is miraculous.

Catriona's caring, steady, and non-judgmental presence was invaluable to me. I was deeply inspired by her love of nature and the meaning she ascribed to the appearance of birds or animals we encountered during our outdoor sessions. Time with Catriona led to an important rebuilding of trust in myself, and in others. She has helped me to reconnect with my life's purpose. In addition to accomplishing major changes in my personal life, I am now working on a master's degree, opening up a new range of professional possibilities.

The retreat delivered everything I had hoped it would and much much more. I hoped to reconnect with a part of myself that has been absent for a while. I wanted to re-establish a meditation practice for myself and I wanted to attune myself to a higher energetic frequency. All of those things were achieved. What I didn't expect was to get a real love for nature nor did I expect to experience a desire to immerse myself in it. I have been deeply afraid of the elements, particularly cold, rain and wind. I now see a possibility that I don't need to be afraid. The cliff walk to see the puffins was exhilarating. The solo was uplifting, enlightening and energising. The energy work with the trees awakened something dormant in me. The dovecote was extraordinary. I saw the stones in a new exciting and hopeful light. So many things. We achieved so much in such a short time. But that was just the start — I have some powerful new tools to incorporate into my own workshops in Australia. Thank you for your patience with us all. Thank you for all that unseen work you did for us behind the scenes. You have such great integrity. I am truly privileged to have had this opportunity to spend time with you. Because of your efforts and skill, I also benefitted and learnt so many things from all the other members of the group. It has been amazing.

Catriona's sweetness and love for nature exudes from her. She is incredible — down to earth and welcoming with knowledge and wisdom beyond comprehension. To meet someone who is so clearly ingrained in nature and in the hearts of animals was life changing for me. I left looking at the landscape completely differently. I have not just an appreciation for wilderness, but I now have a connection and kinship with it. I learned so much about myself and about life, but the best for me was the way her love and complete devotion for nature purified and rededicated mine. Love is contagious and Catriona was the perfect woman to be around to reawaken a deep part of me that had fallen asleep. Forever grateful. I enjoyed connecting with nature on a level I probably would have never known if it weren't for having a person so deeply connected in nature leading the way. Learning about the soul of a tree and energy in stones. Letting the river take away past hurt and renewing my faith in something beautiful. Staring up into the fog filled dark night reminiscing on days past. Reconnecting with the small child in me and being able to heal some of her hurt. Feeling as if I got a little jump start on life again. Leaving knowing I did something very healthy and healing for my spirit. I learned that energy is everywhere and it is essential for me to be connected with my own and be aware of others'. I learned that rocks and stones, meditation, nature and animals, and health are not separate from me, but they are a part of me.

My quest with Catriona was a life-changing, enchanting experience. She's a grounded teacher, offering her gifts of magic in the most humble way. The quest had far-reaching effects — the limbs continue to stretch out into my everyday life experience and sprout new branches. I feel I was initiated to be tapped into the Earth's song and I can hear her in new ways now. My new appreciation for the world and its subtleties have put me more in tune with myself.

I really appreciated Catriona's knowledge of different ways to connect with nature and the healing powers of the universe in a deep way, and her ability to show us those approaches. I benefitted from the opportunity to learn and explore other ways of relating in and to the world that are outside my usual approach (which as you know is fairly analytical and cerebral!) and that will hopefully help me access my own intuition more. I learned about the broad variety of ways to approach getting more in tune with nature/natural/universe energy — and I liked the exposure to different modalities, from breathing and meditation to handwriting etc.

Doing the Vision Quest is one of the greatest gifts I gave myself this year. From the moment I said yes to the invitation my life began to soar. The processes before the Quest weekend were very powerful and thus very encouraging for what was ahead. The Quest itself was deep, rich and powerful, continuing through the ensuing months.

I just wanted to say thanks again so much for the whole experience of the vision quest. It was easily the most wonderfully enriching personal experience I've ever had, everything I wanted and expected and more! I just can't thank you enough for your direction, your support, and most importantly, your kindness. I will never forget my time spent in Coe and the incredible connections I made with nature.

Thank you again for an amazing experience of tremendous growth for me. You are such a wise and beautiful person, inside and out! May my gift to you, that green heart of love that sat in the center of my circle in the moonlight, absorbing and reflecting the energy of that space, and in the sunlight, witnessing and representing the unfolding of my understanding, equal one tiny iota of the gifts you've given me!

First off, I can't thank you enough for my week in the Orkneys. It was a magical trip which I will never forget. From the amazing individuals that accompanied me on the journey, to the beauty of nature in the Orkneys, to the wonderful and unique way that you lead our group on our individual and collective journeys.

Catriona helped me identify themes and clarify my goals. She demonstrated her skill by quickly assessing my needs and making useful suggestions. Tapping into her wealth of knowledge, she offered encouragement and a course of action, one that depended entirely on my volition and effort. She has this uncanny ability to say the right thing at the right time.

I really enjoyed the retreat. It was a wonderful time for reflection and rejuvenation. I found the weekend was gentle and uplifting. I certainly feel stronger as a result and I really appreciated our time together. I think the retreat restored my confidence in myself and my abilities and I am so thankful for your reading of my birth sign and hand-writing. I have once again found the courage and creativity to return to writing my book — and I am currently in the midst of it all and am thoroughly enjoying the journey.

Meeting and working with Catriona was such a pleasure! She is a beautiful woman and teacher. I would recommend to anyone to experience a retreat with her. I learned a lot and had an amazing time. I felt through our time together a real sense of self, worthiness, and empowerment.

I experienced profound shifts in my life and thinking by engaging with these activities.

My reading with Catriona was a welcome and uplifting surprise! Her unique blend of modalities offered a fresh breadth and depth of perspectives. And her sincere caring anchored within me what I needed to harness for the road ahead. Catriona's intuitive understanding of both Celtic and Native American signatures helped me to see myself anew. And her analysis of my handwriting, which revealed key areas for improvement, was mind-blowing. I highly recommend Catriona!

I recently had a trilogy reading and it was unique and powerful! The combination of Celtic wisdom, Native American Animal Wisdom and handwriting analysis is truly amazing. My reading described my gifts given at birth, how I use them in the world and 'cures' for the gifts I don't innately have. It was deeply spiritual, practical and rang true to my heart! There are a lot of people who do readings, but if you want to know who you are right now, today, and whether or not you are using your gifts to their full potential — this is the reading for you! Thank you Catriona!

Catriona provides a unique and differentiated service, that brought to the surface much of my deep-rooted personality. Also, her recommendations were both wise and exciting. I would fully recommend a reading with her and I am sure like me, the person would walk away with new-found knowledge about themselves and ideas on how to improve.

Thank you so much for your reading — I'm still trying to absorb it all. It was an amazing hour for me. How do you know all this? So much of it sounded very familiar; as if you knew me. Other parts were surprising and delightful to hear. More than delightful, actually. More like profound. Deep down profound. You were so down to earth, yet so completely operating from someplace not of this earth. You are truly a special soul. With sincere gratitude.