VIRTUAL NATURE BREAKS
A six week online creative health project designed for NHS staff, offering moments of togetherness and respite through movement, creativity and shared reflection, commissioned by Hywel Dda University Health Board Arts and Health Team.
Centred on movement, seasonal change, and rhythms observed in the natural world, the project was designed around immersive audio visual poems, inspiring moments of calm, reflection and upliftment. Each week a video was shared from moving images captured from the seascapes, gardens, and ancient woodlands of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Bannau Brycheiniog. With opportunities to take part in gentle movement, creative writing prompts, and group reflection, the sessions offered space to take a breath, to move, and share in a creative collective break together.
"I just wanted to say how much i enjoyed today's session, hearing the poem, the sound of the sea, and having some space for what I really love, which is to move!"
“The images made me reflect on the rivers close to where I live. I realised I didn’t know their names, and this break has inspired me to spend more time to get to know them.”
- Staff member feedback
Song of the Sea
"This weeks virtual nature break brings us to the ocean, where we'll immerse into the spirit of the sea with poetry and sound. We'll begin with some gentle movement, and make space for writing and reflecting on the seascapes that inspire you....."
Sample session outline and selected stills from video poems filmed across the seascapes, gardens, and ancient woodlands of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and Bannau Brycheiniog
