
The Cards
Inner Nature Cards are a powerful yet simple tool to help you slow down, listen inward, and connect with your own body’s wisdom.
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Organised into three distinct categories — Sensations, Feelings, and Needs — the deck offers a language for exploring the nuanced layers of inner experience. With 100 thoughtfully curated words, each card invites you to sense, name, and clarify what’s present within you.
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Every card is paired with a unique, evocative photograph from Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural world, providing a visual anchor to the essence of each word and a reminder of our belonging to nature’s rhythms and cycles.
Like the natural world, our inner experience — our inner nature — is always shifting in response to our relationships, events, and environments. Whether you use the cards for a daily check-in, a guided exercise, or spontaneous reflection, each encounter reveals something new.
A practice guide is included with simple suggestions for solo, partner, and group explorations.
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Professionals in the helping fields — counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, teachers, mediators, and group facilitators — will find Inner Nature Cards a versatile and meaningful resource to deepen somatic awareness and support emotional exploration with others.
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Language is powerful. Words open doors.
Words help us cross the distance between self and other. But our first human language is sensation.
It is through the body — through sensation — that we experience our lives.
With these cards, we invite you to return to that first language.
To sense. To feel. To listen. And to honour your body as a guide toward clarity, connection, and healing.
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This project is indebted to photographer and creative Catherine Adam whose unique imagery provides a beautiful visual touchstone for every sensation, feeling, and need. We are beyond grateful for her vital contribution.