About
Wild Roots Guiding.
Wild Roots Guiding was founded in 2020 by Anna Danby. Anna is a qualified Summer and Winter Mountain Leader with a professional background in education & leadership and over 20 years experience of walking, running and climbing in the mountains.
Since childhood Anna has been fascinated by the natural world, seeking out adventures and always curious to find out why landscapes look the way they do. This inspired her to focus her studies to deepen her understanding of the natural world in order to be able to share it with others.
She worked in the informal education sector for many years, latterly as the Learning Manager at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. The only science centre in the UK dedicated to Earth and Environmental Sciences. Since then, moving to the Highlands has allowed her to combine her professional career with a lifelong love of exploring wild places and having great adventures.
Over the past five years the team has expanded to include four highly experienced and qualified guides who all share the Wild Roots ethos of enabling you to challenge yourself in wild places, gain new skills and confidence whilst also learning about and connecting to the landscapes you move through.
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Anna is a qualified summer & winter Mountain Leader. She is also an experienced rock climber, mountaineer and runner with a professional background in science education and leadership. She brings expertise from all of these areas into her work.She has a particular interest in sharing the stories of landscapes, enabling exploration off the beathen path and helping you build skills and confidence for future independent adventures.
Qualifications:
Summer and Winter Mountain Leader
Wilderness First Aid
STA Open Water Swim Safety
PGDip Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education
BSc Environmental Science
You’ll meet Anna on our Highland Wilderness and Wild Yoga Journeys, Retreats, Mountain Skills Courses and on bespoke summer & winter guiding.
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Lindsay is a qualified Mountain Leader, Yoga Teacher and Massage Therapist with a passion for movement and the great outdoors. She loves to help people find mindful ways to connect with nature.
Lindsay has a wealth of experience in the outdoors, not only on foot but also by bike, sail and kayak. As a child, family holidays invariably involved hiking and camping and in her university days, her free time was spent ‘escaping to the hills’ and helping to run Glasgow University’s large and very active mountaineering club.
Whether it’s scaling mountains or crossing oceans she has a story to share. Coupled with her encyclopaedic knowledge of how the body works and a brain capable of solving most problems you can’t fail to learn and be inspired when in her presence.
Qualifications:
Summer Mountain Leader
200hr Yoga Teacher Training + 50hr Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training
Level 2 Technical Trail Leader ( Mountain Biking)
RYA Watch Leader
Outdoor First Aid
Diploma in Advanced Remedial Massage
MSc Sustainable Management of the Water Environment + BEng Civil Engineering
You’ll meet Lindsay on our Highland Wilderness and Wild Yoga Journeys, our Wild Yoga Retreat, Discover Knoydart and Knoydart Colours trips and on bespoke summer guiding.
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Shona works in private practice as a counsellor/ psychotherapist. She’s passionate about helping people disconnect from their busy lives and be present in nature.Shona is also experienced in big adventures in wild places. She’s probably spent more nights living out of a tent than all of us put together. Completing solo both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Te Araroa as well as a full round of the Munros in less that a year!
Through all these adventures she never loses sight of the fact that it’s not about the destination but the way in which we journey that really matters.
Qualifications:
PGDip Counselling
Level 3 Internal Family Systems Therapist
Certificate in Forest Bathing
Certificate in Taking Therapy Outdoors
You’ll meet Shona on our Highland Wilderness Journeys and Wild Mountain Retreat.
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Siobhan is a qualified Summer Mountain Leader and lover of nature. She has spent the last 15+ years hiking all over the world, but the Scottish highlands are still her favourite!When not walking in the mountains, Siobhan can be found wild swimming, teaching at the local climbing wall or studying a degree in outdoor education
Qualifications:
Summer Mountain Leader
Climbing Wall Instructor
200 hour Yoga Teacher Training
BA Outdoor Education
Outdoor First Aid
You’ll meet Siobhan on our bespoke summer guiding.
Have Questions?
info@wildrootsguiding.scot
07720 398 642