The Natural Life-stylist

The Natural Life-stylist “We can’t all live in nature, but that doesn’t mean we can’t live naturally.” You don't actually have to go into the wild to rewild.

Natural Lifestyle Coaching, helps you to reconnect to your natural wisdom and the natural world. Working with the physical, social, spiritual and emotional aspects of our lives, natural lifestyle coaching draws on the lessons handed down from our ancestors and the planet we have inhabited for thousands of years. Through practical adjustments to the way we live now, and learning to connect with Nat

ure’s extraordinary wisdom in every aspect of life, there lies huge healing and transformative power. Natural Lifestyle Coaching draws on the wisdom of the natural world to inform every aspect of our lives. It is a system of coaching that enables human beings to function at their best, individually and collectively, and always in relation to their environment. Through this coaching we are dedicated to helping others to seek out and explore these foundations of optimum living within their natural habitats. We exist in a modern technological age; we can’t turn back the clock or expect to be able to live as we did as hunter gatherers. But we can relearn these deep connections to nature, ourselves, and each other and in doing so find profound states of wellbeing. You can start your own rewilding experience by making small changes to your everyday routines in your every day environments. Soon these small changes will accumulate into the change you maybe want to see in your world. Changes can be made to the way we sleep, eat, digest, rest, interact with the sun, move and integrate with others through play. By making small changes we really can start to redefine what is socially normal, and start to look at rewilding as a way to help bridge between our ancestral self and our modern landscape.

Papa’s pancakes recipe made it into my new book, but NatLifeCoach wasn’t prepared to wait until the end of June when ‘T...
10/06/2026

Papa’s pancakes recipe made it into my new book, but NatLifeCoach wasn’t prepared to wait until the end of June when ‘Take The Stairs’ gets shipped. He was clearly overwhelmed with satiated joy from the mornings pancakes here at RiddleHQ that he teased the recipe out of me.

And then my buddy over in South Africa messaged me for the recipe too. And as he just had a heart transplant (Yep you read that right, he had a full heart transplant) and needed those pancakes in his belly to keep recovering like the bad ass that he is I felt obliged to share.

Sharing is caring!

And because everyday is a pancake day, I thought that some of you might also appreciate getting your whip on and your batter in the pan too. So here it is, the full Papa Pancake recipe accompanied by images and the recipe from my book.

Talking of sharing is caring…

The book, unlike the papa pancakes isn’t one of those things you can produce every day and feels very much like my own new heart. So please do go hit pre-order as the pre-order phase really does help drive sales on amazon when it launches in juts two weeks time.





09/06/2026

Would you stay here?

We believe that unlocking our full human potential should be accessible to everyone. To achieve this, we must cultivate the right environment and provide tailored holistic lifestyle coaching to meet the outcomes we so desperately seek.

Our mission is to create such an environment. We found the land in Portugal and over the last decade have developed a world-renowned coaching philosophy that connects us all to ways of living more in sync with our human biology, enabling us to thrive, not just survive.

For years, wellness real estate has often been marketed based on features like spas, gyms, recovery rooms, cold plunges, healthy food, and clean air—all of which are beneficial. However, we believe in asking deeper questions: Instead of “What do we offer you?” we ask, “What mind and body state do we help you achieve?” “What do you leave feeling?” “What does your mind and body remember?” “How does this environment help you reach your potential?” and “How can we support you after you leave?”

While we embrace self-optimisation, our focus is on self-regulation, restoration, and measurable emotional experiences. This isn’t just wellness hospitality; we are creating a space where neuroscience, immersive design, emotional well-being, nervous system regulation & human performance, connection and potential all converge to create the ultimate human experience.

Would you stay here?

🪴 Biodynamic & Regen farming: We will be committing our ways to more ancient, naturalistic & holistic practices

🏕️ Holistic Homes: organic buildings with organic furnishings for organic beings.

🏝️ Bio beach hubs (wild dining, botanical elixir beach bars, cacao cafe, floating saunas and beachside sun decks.

🧘 Our NatLifeCoaches will provide posture-enhancing-joint-liberating-movement, breath-work, hot & cold contrast therapies or nature immersive experiences & vision quests.

🥘 Food: our soil to satiated menu from the land as well as a whole community of small producers, fishermen & farmers.

🏕️ our NatLifeSchool, committed to nature based education for the youngest of our members and guests.



Join us at our home In Portugal, where our days will be filled with an abundance of perception shifting talks, natural m...
01/06/2026

Join us at our home In Portugal, where our days will be filled with an abundance of perception shifting talks, natural movement, mobility, deep connection, family constellations, communication, language work, pool-side-chill-time, sea dips, nature immersive walks, cacao ceremonies and plenty of rest and integration time.

This deeply immersive 3 night retreat is a beautiful blend of Tony and Katarina’s skillsets and passions for coaching —incorporating Tony’s NatLifeCoach practices: posture enhancing and joint liberating natural movement and mobility, breath work and nature immersion — with Katarina’s Family Constellations: Through family constellations, we draw a line in the sand, enabling us to unburden ourselves from what is no longer ours to carry and declaring that our sabotaging generational patterns end with us.

When: 24th - 27th July
Friday 5pm - Monday 10am

Moncarapacho - Portugal (25 mins from Faro Airport)

Accommodation with pool and incredible views: Single and Double occupancy rooms as well as bell-tent available.

We will tune in and tune up with lots of nourishing; rest, sleep, guided meditations, cacao ceremonies, breath work and feed our super natural souls with super natural foods and lots of belly laughter.

Transfers from Faro to the retreat

We can’t wait to share this experience with you!

Tickets: £300-£650

Just 6 spots remaining

Link in the bio





Modern convenience and rigid convenient parenting models clash with our evolutionary biology. Humans have an evolved exp...
27/05/2026

Modern convenience and rigid convenient parenting models clash with our evolutionary biology.

Humans have an evolved expectancy for certain experiences (like being carried in a sling 24/7). You can argue that ‘routine parenting’ models prioritise industrial efficiency over
biological integrity.

However, from the infant’s perspective, they don’t know they’re in a safe twenty-first-century cot in a nursery; they only know that they are isolated and unanswered.

This as a generational debt. We use modern parenting hacks to make our current lives easier, but we are essentially ‘financing’ that ease by shortening the next generation’s biological fuse.

We are trading parental convenience for offspring
resilience. A baby who doesn’t have to fight for safety via a stressed limbic system saves ‘metabolic capital’ that can be used for higher-order growth and repair.

Indigenous cultures often practise allo-parenting (multiple caregivers) and constant physical contact. In these settings, the infant’s nervous system is constantly co-regulating with a calm adult. The limbic system learns that the world is a non-threatening environment.

This enables high vagal
tone (the health of the vagus nerve). High vagal tone is one of the strongest predictors of longevity, as it governs the body’s ability to switch from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest.

The telomere connection:
Longevity research increasingly shows that the psychological environment of childhood is written into our DNA. Chronic elevation of cortisol (the result
of unanswered distress) is toxic to telomerase, the enzyme that protects and repairs telomeres.

By enforcing a rigid routine that relies on the baby giving up (a state known as behavioural despair rather than true contentment), the method inadvertently accelerates the child’s cellular ageing before they’ve even reached primary school. You are essentially borrowing sleep today at the cost of the child’s cellular ‘capital’ tomorrow.

You could argue that secure attachment is the ultimate biohack because it lowers the lifetime ‘interest rate’ on stress.

Excerpt from my new book ‘Take The Stairs’

27/05/2026

The Nat Life vs The ZooLife

The Biological Norm vs The Social Norm

Level 1 Certification Dates For Portugal Now Live Linked in B.I.O

If you are serious about living naturally - then this is for you!





23/05/2026

The Reticular Activating System (RAS) acts as the brain’s “gatekeeper,” between the conscious and subconscious mind, determining which signals reach your conscious mind.

You might have played red car
blue car before, where you decide on red cars, and in choosing red cars you programmed the RAS to prioritise that specific visual frequency and then as if by magic everyone had decided to hit the road driving their red cars, they were everywhere.

Now, let’s flip the script:

• Red Car symbolises:

• Capability

• Abundance

• Blue Car symbolises:

• Incapability

• Scarcity

This shift in perception highlights how our focus shapes our reality.



20/05/2026

We’re all faced with it - those mundane choices—like stairs versus an escalator.

When you face a flight of stairs, the communication between your brain regions functions as follows:

The Limbic System seeks to minimise metabolic and mechanical cost. 
* The Signal: when you’ve been sedentary, it identifies the stairs as a high-energy “threat” to comfort and the escalator as a “reward” of ease.

* The Reaction: It generates a subtle whisper of resistance or a “why bother?” thought. 

* The Prefrontal Cortex (The Rationaliser): It holds the long-term goal—e.g., “I want to be capable and competent and add life to my years”

* Neuroplasticity: Every time you choose the stairs when you don’t want to, you are physically “thickening” the area of your brain associated with will power and resilience.

* Research shows that even small behavioral changes like taking the stairs can counteract age-related loss of brain matter. 

Reticular Activating System:

* The Filter: If you’re feeding your RAS with a narrative of “tiredness,” it supports you with my side bias sensations like the heavy feeling in your legs.

* The Narrative Shift: By using a mantra—such as “This is my ancestral training” or “I am becoming stronger and more capable “—you instruct the RAS to filter for sensations of strength, capability and accomplishment.

* The Result: This “top-down” narrative reduces the perceived discomfort, allowing you to bypass the limbic system’s “kickback”.

* Long-term Resilience: Regular stair use is associated with a 24% reduced risk of dying and a significant increase in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, which supports overall brain health. 

It’s a huge privilege to be able to Take The Stairs. Take The Stairs for those that can’t.

20/05/2026

The implications for longevity

From my new book ‘Take The Stairs’

Interestingly, longevity studies suggest that one of the best indicators of age is how well we can get up from the floor. But if we cannot even manage to get down to the floor with ease in the first place, it raises significant questions about our physical capabilities and overall health. After all, the absence of ease is dis-ease.

I see that our ability to access the ground is not just about flexibility or strength; it speaks to our ability to adapt and to remain resilient. By choosing to engage with the ground, we shift the originally perceived discomfort to a position of comfort and ease and enable ourselves to remain comfortable in our bodies as we meet the demands of life as we age.

‘Health is modern wealth, but ancestral health is billionaire wealth. When your body meets the demands of your mind, you cease being a passive passenger on the path of least resistance and become a strong, capable being, ready to embrace change.’

19/05/2026

Yes Rob, I am excited for you!

“I’ve been through quite a lot and so at the start of Redefining 50 I felt a lot of self doubt, but I’m here now and I feel present. The self doubt and hesitation is quieter now. I’m feeling much more capable, confident and competent in myself. We’re only three experiences in and we have another two to go - so where can I go from here? What am I capable of? And because I now feel more capable and strong within my mind and my body, I’m excited to see where this human potential will go” - Robert

Do I need to be 50?

Nope….we have people in the program who in their 30’s 40’s and 50’s.

The Redefining50 programme is about providing you with the tools to enable you to step outside of the domesticated comfort cage with the invisible bars and re-equipping you with the data needed for a strong, capable, adaptable-longevity lifestyle for the ever changing experience we call life.

Here’s what the 2027 10 month Redefining program includes:

> Quarterly Redefining50 Retreats in Portugal (accommodation, food, coaching, and all UCR’s included)
> One 1-2-1 coaching call per week
> One monthly Redefining50 group call
> The NatLifCoach Level 1 Certification
> The Final Uncomfortable Challenge: we pin in the calendar the final weekend and together we prepare to arrive at the start line ready to endure. Think of this as your certificate of completion.

The application process for the 2027 Redefining50 program is now open.

I can’t guarantee that this will add years to your life. But what I can promise, is that you’ll add life to your years.

Email ‘[email protected] to register your interest and book your pre-lim call. (20% early bird discount available on all payment plans until the 1st of June)


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