What If Everything Around You Is Alive and Listening?
Interview with Dr. Saskia von Diest & Nita Daryanani
Dr. Saskia von Diest is the founder of Ecofluency and an award-winning consultant, facilitator, educator, and activist in the field of Nature communication. With a PhD in Plant Pathology and two postdoctoral fellowships spanning South Africa and the UK, Saskia spent years researching how people use intuitive communication with Nature alongside subtle technologies like sound and electromagnetics — to make holistic, life-affirming decisions.
In 2021, she launched Ecofluency to bring the science, art, and practice of communicating with more-than-human Nature to people around the world. Today, she offers nature consultations, workshops, and energy field clearings for individuals, animals, and land — helping people reconnect with the natural world in a deep and meaningful way.
Saskia is also a director of the Organisation for Noetic Ecology and a founding member of Nature's Council, where she helps bring the voice of Nature itself into decision-making spaces.
Meet Dr. Saskia von Diest
Founder of Ecofluency • Nature Communication Consultant • PhD Plant Pathology
Dr. Saskia von Diest is a Nature communication consultant, educator, and activist dedicated to helping humans remember their innate ability to communicate and live in harmony with all of life.
Through her work at Ecofluency, Dr. Saskia von Diest supports individuals, communities, and organisations in developing a genuine, lived relationship with the more-than-human world: trees, animals, rivers, soil, ancestors, and the unseen forces that connect all living beings.
Her approach brings together scientific rigour, ancestral wisdom, and practical experience. With a PhD in Plant Pathology and 15 years of international teaching, research, and facilitation, Saskia understands both the evidence base for biocommunication and the lived reality of what happens when people truly open to listening.
At the heart of Dr. Saskia von Diest's mission is a profound belief: Nature communication is not a gift reserved for a few — it is a capacity that every human being already carries. We simply forgot how to use it. Through her programmes and consultations, she creates the conditions for that remembering to happen — for pet parents, land stewards, healers, and anyone who senses that the natural world is trying to reach them.
Dr. Saskia von Diest is also a director of the Organisation for Noetic Ecology and a founding member of Nature's Council, where the voices of rivers, forests, and ecosystems are invited into human decision-making spaces.
A Note From Nita
"I have always sensed that my animals were trying to tell me things I didn't know how to hear. When I spoke with Saskia, something shifted. She didn't just explain nature communication — she helped me feel it. The way she speaks about animals, trees, and the earth reminds you of something you have always known but couldn't find the words for.
This conversation changed the way I listen to the world around me. If you love animals and feel called to something deeper, please watch this. It will open you.
Upcoming Events
Learn With Dr. Saskia von Diest
Ecofluency Foundational 4-Week Online Course
📅 Wed 27 May – Wed 17 Jun 2026
This 4-week online course offers a practical, grounded pathway into the science, art, and magic of Nature communication — what Dr. Saskia von Diest calls Ecofluency. Using an expanded spectrum of senses and awareness, you will learn how to establish a strong, safe, and meaningful two-way communication practice with animals, plants, insects, water, land, and other aspects of the more-than-human world. No previous experience is required, and no particular belief system is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to listen.
Each session runs for 90 minutes via Zoom, combining structured teaching with Q&A and sharing. Alongside the live calls, you will receive practical exercises to develop your skills between sessions, as well as access to the Ecofluency global network — a community of practitioners from around the world who share experiences, support each other's practice, and continue to grow together long after the course ends.
Rhythms of Remembrance
📅 September 5 - 10, 2026
Set on the breathtaking shores of Cortes Island, British Columbia, this immersive 6-day retreat invites you into a deep reweaving of the rhythms between your inner world and the living landscape around you. Through Nature communication, poetic expression, sound, movement, and contemplative practice, Dr. Saskia von Diest and multi-award-winning musician Ruby Singh guide participants in attuning the body as a listening instrument for genuine two-way conversation with the more-than-human world — trees, water, soil, wind, and all that is alive.
You will leave with Dr. Saskia von Diest's practical 9-step Ecofluency guidelines for everyday Nature communication, as well as new ways to bring inspiration, enchantment, and ecological alignment into both personal and professional life. No prior experience is needed, and no particular belief system is required — only the willingness to remember what it feels like to truly belong to this planet.
Ecofluency: Reconnect With the Living World
Most of us grew up learning about nature — studying it, observing it, protecting it from a distance. But very few of us were taught something far more ancient and essential: how to be in relationship with it.
Dr. Saskia von Diest spent years as a scientist and researcher studying how living systems communicate and then something shifted. She began to understand, through direct experience and decades of inquiry, that the capacity to communicate with trees, animals, water, and the earth is not mystical. It is innate. And it has simply been forgotten.
Ecofluency exists to help people reclaim this capacity — not as a belief system, but as a living practice. For pet parents, this means learning to truly receive what your animal is telling you about their health, emotions, and needs. For anyone who loves nature, it means stepping into the most profound conversation of your life.
Nature Consultations
One-on-one sessions in which Saskia facilitates communication between you, your animal, and the natural environment. These sessions support clarity, healing, and deeper connection — for both the human and the animal.
Workshops & Programmes
Experiential learning journeys that help participants develop their own relationship with nature communication — including communication with pets, plants, land, and ancestral energies. Suitable for beginners and those who already sense a connection but want to go deeper.
Energy Field Clearings
For homes, land, animals, and individuals. Saskia works to sense and harmonise the subtle energy fields that affect wellbeing — often the unseen root of patterns that don't resolve through conventional means.
Who this is for:
Pet parents who want to understand their animals more deeply. People who feel called to the natural world but don't know how to listen. Healers, land stewards, and anyone ready to step into genuine relationship with all of life.
Format: Individual consultations, group workshops, and self-study resources — all available online and internationally.
Free Resources: Begin Your Journey With Nature
Discover practical, accessible entry points into the art and science of communicating with the natural world.
Dr. Saskia von Diest offers a growing collection of free resources to help you take your first real steps into nature communication — gently, practically, and at your own pace. Whether you are a pet parent, a nature lover, or simply someone who has always felt there was more going on in the living world than what we were taught, these resources are a beautiful place to begin.
You don't need prior experience. You don't need any particular belief. You only need curiosity — and the willingness to be a little more still, and a little more open, than usual.
What You'll Learn
- What nature communication really is and how it is different from simply appreciating nature
- Why every human being already has the capacity to communicate with animals and the natural world
- How animals mirror our emotions, health, and inner states and what they may be trying to show us
- Why loneliness may be the deepest crisis of our time and how reconnecting with nature can begin to heal it
- Practical first steps to open communication with trees, plants, and the living world around you
- How energy field clearings support wellbeing in ways conventional approaches can't always reach
Connect with Dr. Saskia von Diest:
Nature Consultations: https://www.ecofluency.org/nature-consultations
Energy Field Clearing: https://www.ecofluency.org/clearings
Website: https://www.ecofluency.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ecofluency/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Ecofluency
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Ecofluency/
At the heart of this conversation is a quiet but powerful invitation — the reminder that you were never truly separate from the living world around you. Dr. Saskia von Diest speaks from both scientific grounding and deep personal experience when she says that nature communication is not something we need to learn from scratch. It is something we need to remember.
For pet parents, this matters in a very immediate way. The animals in our lives are not passive receivers of our care — they are aware, responsive beings who communicate constantly through their energy, behaviour, and physical state. When we learn to listen at this level, everything about how we care for them changes.
Rather than moving through life feeling disconnected from the natural world, Dr. Saskia von Diest invites us into something older and wiser — a way of being in which trees, animals, water, and even the earth itself are recognized as kin. Where the grief of disconnection begins to lift. And where the relationship between humans and the rest of nature is restored to what it was always meant to be: mutual, alive, and full of meaning.
