Rock and Rose Adventurers
Our Team
Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie spent thirty years following the call of sacred landscapes around the world, from living with our Anangu Pitjantjatjara family, the Sacred Guardians of Uluru to deep earth work at Angkor Wat, before devoting four years to Scotland where the Grail codes awakened within her. Guided by synchronicity, ancient remembrance, and a lifetime of communion with Gaïa, she has become a guide to Scotland's most transformative landscapes and the hidden wisdom they hold. Through Rock & Rose Adventures, she now leads those who are called to these most sacred and Holy Lands. For it is not so much that you who are called will remember the land… but the land will remember You.
FounderLaura Highsmith
Dan Thompson
Dan is an aeronautical engineer and pilot whose precision and clarity bring essential grounding to every journey, holding steady while others step into transformation. His presence is the ballast that allows seekers to surrender safely to Scotland's sacred energies, knowing they are held by someone whose life has been lived in alignment, attentiveness, and love. Met by Lisa at Tintagel Castle and bound by love forged at a waterfall in the Azores, he navigates both terrain and spirit with the same quiet mastery, ensuring every traveller finds their way home.
Navigation & Grounding 
Operations DirectorVictoria Louise
Laura Higsmith spent decades building businesses and developing property in Seattle, mastering the art of creation and control, before discovering the profound wisdom that lives in letting go and being with what is. A lifelong traveller whose obsessive attention to detail transforms the practical world into a seamless passage for seekers, she understands that true grace emerges when we surrender the need to manage every outcome. As Operations Director for Rock & Rose Adventures, her meticulous care and hard-won presence create the invisible architecture that allows transformation to unfold safely. For Laura knows that the most powerful invitation we can offer is permission to simply be.
Rose Retreat Leader & YoginiVictoria of White Rose Wellbeing is a natural healer and yoga teacher whose quiet, intuitive presence has guided women through profound healing for well over a decade. From her home in the Dedham Vale she weaves Yin and Restorative yoga with her own Mind and Body Alchemy and Soul Transformation Therapy. Her gift is embodied transformation: supporting women to return home to themselves through gentle healing and self discovery, creating space for greater freedom, presence and peace. As our guide in movement and rest she holds a space so safe that the body finally feels able to soften and let go, trusting in the innate capacity to heal that lives within us all. This is her quiet devotion.
Rose Retreat LeaderKelly Butchart
Kelly Butchart walked away from twenty-two years in education, including four years as a Headteacher, to answer a deeper calling to guide women through spiritual awakening and heart-led remembrance. Grounded in Heartology, Gene Keys, Theta Healing and Silent Counselling, she has become a bridge to each woman's own truth and the wisdom held deep within her essence. Co-facilitating the White Rose Retreat with Lisa & Victoria, Kelly holds the sacred frequency that allows transformation to land in body and soul, helping each traveller move beyond striving into authentic remembrance. For it is through the heart that we find the way home to ourselves.
Emily Crichton
Culinary Director & Head ChefEmily Crichton has spent her life in service to two great loves, food and people, learning that to feed someone well is one of the oldest and most tender forms of care. From her home in Perthshire she has cooked across Scotland for shooting parties, family gatherings and intimate elopements, and for households as storied as the Earl Cadogan's, her eclectic table moving between Mediterranean and Levantine flavours while honouring the produce of Scotland and Britain. As chef for the retreat she turns each meal into a feast befitting the occasion, meeting each guest with warmth and grace. For Emily knows that true nourishment is the quiet feeling of being thought of, cared for and welcome.