Alone Australia Season 2 Runner Up
Suzan is passionate about working with people at all stages of their lives to deepen their connection to their authentic and powerful inner selves and to the natural world. Suzan works in both facilitation and mentorship roles, encouraging people to trust their own hearts, minds and intuition as they navigate the major transitions in their lives. Suzan’s skills, as a nature guide have developed through decades of wilderness adventures; guiding both adults and children. Significant time alone in wild places has facilitated her experience of humanity as nature.
Suzan’s breast cancer journey and the grief of living her life with out children have been her greatest teachers. Suzan’s resilience is a result of the her determination to explore the deep lessons of these challenging experiences. A daily practise of immersion within the natural world has become essential to her sense of self.
JON MUIR
Jon's is Australia’s most widely experienced adventurer.
he received the, ‘Lifetime of Adventure, Award’ in 2017 from the Australian Geographic Society.
Jon guides adventures into untracked wilderness and presents motivational corporate talks.
His extreme wilderness adventures have honed his spirit into that of the neolithic hunter and gather, semi-nomadic food grower, insightful philosopher and historian. Jon practises daily meditation in his forest home at Inanna.
INANNA
The main facilitator here of your nature based program is your own heart cradled within the heart of the land, ‘Inanna.’ You and the land are not separate. Our biology grows from the minerals of the earth. Our human soul and DNA have developed during at least 300,000 years of ancestral experience as hunter gatherers, where we understood ourselves as being at the heart of nature. We are nature, nature is us. The land ‘Inanna,’ under the stewardship of Suzy and Jon Muir, is surrounded by the sandstone cliffs and forests of the Grampians National Park. It’s alive with kangaroos, wallabies, echidna and emus, Wedge Tail Eagles, and the calls of many other birds. The forest is incredibly diverse supporting a number of different ecosystems, from open heath land to dense thickets of hakea and tea tree, to small glades with delicate flowers surrounded by mature native cherry, blackwood, stringy bark and manor gums. In this healthy, wild landscape you sit in the midst of the curious attention of many lifeforms ...the forest is silently aware of you, in much the same way as you are aware of the forest.
“We wonder if we are alone in the universe, the only intelligent creatures among the stars, not realising we are surrounded right here at home by intelligent Others, not to mention the stars themselves.”