Severine Portmann

Severine Portmann works around Luzern under the name Natur Auszeit as an independent funeral speaker and ritual specialist. She designs nature-oriented funeral ceremonies without the church, welcome rituals for children and rites of passage as an independent alternative to First Communion and Confirmation. In addition there are grief support, forest bathing courses and offers for companies and groups. She is a trained forest bathing course leader, integrative coach and specialist in farewell rituals and funeral ceremonies; she completed the latter training at Lebensgrund GmbH. This is supplemented by further training in grief support and in nature and forest education, and by her voluntary work at Hospiz Zentralschweiz. She is a member of the Ritualverband and works with Luzern Tourismus on forest bathing.