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A Place to Come Home to Your Body
Surrounded by sea, green grasses and trees, and wide open skies, Kegnaes Garden is more than a retreat location — it is a living ecosystem of healing.
The house rests in nature, embraced by an ancient ash tree and overlooking the sea. The air is clear. The land is alive. The garden grows in permaculture principles. Every element is chosen with care.
We believe that recovery is not only a medical process — it is an environmental one.
When nature is healthy, people can heal.
When the soil is alive, the body remembers its strength.
The Place – Nature Heals
medical guidance, therapeutic support, nutritional education, nervous system regulation, creative empowerment, community with other women
Why MS Nature Healing Was Created – My Story
Hello, my name is Iris!
Eleven years ago, I was diagnosed with MS.
I remember the silence after the diagnosis. The fear. The feeling of losing control over my own body.
I searched for a place where I could arrive — not just medically, but emotionally. A place where I could sit with professionals and ask:
What does this mean for me?
What are my options?
How can I live a strong, creative, hopeful life with this diagnosis?
That place did not exist.
So we created it.
MS Nature was born from the longing to come home to the body again.
Not to fight it. Not to fear it. But to understand it.
healthy nature – healthy people
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Our Therapeutic Approach
Art Therapy
Through guided art therapy sessions in our atelier, participants explore emotions, fears, identity shifts, and new perspectives. Art becomes a bridge — from confusion to clarity, from loss to self-discovery.
Creativity allows expression beyond words.
Nature Therapy
Through mindful walks by the sea, grounding exercises under the ash tree, and silent time in the garden, we reconnect to natural rhythms. Nature therapy supports stress reduction, resilience, and emotional stabilization.
Nature regulates the nervous system in ways no medication can replicate.
The nervous system of women with MS is often overstimulated and exhausted.Sound Therapy
In our yoga and sound space, we work with:, Sound bowls, Gentle voice work, Breath. Nervous system regulation practice.
Vibration and sound help restore balance and activate deep relaxation pathways.
Anti-Inflammatory Detox Nutrition
MS is closely connected to inflammatory processes and gut health.
Our nutrition program focuses on:
Anti-inflammatory whole foods
Gut-supportive meals
Detoxifying yet nourishing ingredients
Education on sustainable dietary habits
Participants learn how food can become daily medicine — supportive, strengthening, empowering.
Our Team
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Together, Amber and Iris bring complementary perspectives: scientific rigor and creative embodiment, systems-based analysis and nature-connected integration. Their shared vision is to support women in understanding their health not as fragmented symptoms, but as an interconnected, intelligent whole.
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Iris Seibert
Iris Seibert began her professional path in emergency medical services, working for nearly a decade as a paramedic. This clinical foundation gave her a grounded understanding of the body under pressure and the realities of living with serious illness.
She later trained in Clinical Art Therapy at KHSB a Berlin and expanded into trauma-informed, integrative practice. Through founding her nature-based project Kegnaes Garden, she developed a therapeutic approach that unites creative expression, body-oriented methods, music therapy, and earth-based practices. Her work creates spaces where emotional process, nervous system regulation, and connection to nature unfold in meaningful dialogue.
Living with Multiple Sclerosis for over a decade — now resilient and symptom-free — Iris brings lived depth to her role as Therapeutic and Creative Integration Lead. She holds the group process with steadiness and sensitivity, guiding participants in translating insight into embodied experience and cultivating trust in their own capacity for healing.
Dr. Amber Steele
Dr. Amber Steele is a specialist in women’s psychoneuroendocrinology with over three decades of experience integrating hormonal science, stress physiology, and trauma-informed practice. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where her research examined how menstrual cycle patterns relate to emotional regulation, sleep, stress, trauma history, and mental wellbeing. Through a longitudinal study with 110 women, she developed a framework that connects biological data with lived experience — forming the scientific foundation of this retreat.
Her work within the NHS/NIHR research infrastructure at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, contributing to more than 200 interdisciplinary projects, shaped her systemic approach to women’s health. A personal autoimmune diagnosis deepened this understanding, revealing healing as a dynamic interplay between physiology, emotion, and environment.
As Health Coach and Methodological Lead, Amber integrates biomarker analysis, cycle tracking, microbiome insights, and continuous glucose monitoring into a clear and empowering narrative. She supports women in understanding their data while reconnecting with the intelligence and resilience of their bodies.
