About Dartmoor’s Daughter
Emma Cunis is a Dartmoor Guide leading walks, talks, tours and nature-connection experiences to encourage learning, exploration, enjoyment and care for this extraordinary living, working landscape.
After a 20 year global business career living in New York, Hong Kong, London, and Australia, Emma returned home to Devon to recover her health. Reconnecting with her family’s love and guiding history on Dartmoor, she qualified as a Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) and founded ‘Dartmoor’s Daughter’.
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Emma is a qualified Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) by Mountain Training Association (MTA), with the accompanying Outdoor First Aid certificate. She has hiked hills and mountains in Nepal, China, USA, and the UK.
She has trained and developed skills in health and life coaching, outdoor education, bushcraft and ancient crafts, foraging and cooking, animism, ceremony, and storytelling.
Emma's previous 20 year global corporate career ensures a professionalism in managing and facilitating different client groups and cultures as well as experience in organising events, leading teams, and presentation skills.
Emma is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Guild of Merchant Taylors. She also holds MSc International Marketing, and BA Hons History. She volunteers with archaeology and conservation organisations when time allows.
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Emma Cunis is a member of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC), Mountain Training Association (MTA), Visit Dartmoor, the Dartmoor Society and the Dartmoor Preservation Association.
Dartmoor’s Daughter has been awarded the 'Travellers Choice Award' by Trip Advisor every year since 2021.
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Meet the Team Behind Dartmoor’s Daughter
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Claire Sekula
Claire weaves her magic behind the scenes, handling a variety of creative and administrative responsibilities. During her free time, she enjoys exploring Dartmoor and the coastline with her family, and loves a wild swim. Alongside Dartmoor’s Daughter, she creates simple yet eye-catching prints and cards, which she sells at local craft markets and through her Etsy shop.
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Tara Stannard
Tara is a digital nomad seeking out the wild places around the UK with her family. She works on the website, branding, marketing and tech side of things for Dartmoor’s Daughter and other inspiring individuals around the globe. See her other projects here.
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Verran Townsend
Verran is a mountain walker, author, and potter. Qualified Mountain Leader and outdoors-lover, he teaches navigation skills with Dartmoor’s Daughter.
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Sally Cunis
Sally is a dowser, writer, artist, and retired counsellor, healer, and nurse. Understanding that our planet is a living, conscious, and aware being, Sally teaches dowsing to beginners on Dartmoor’s Daughter’s walks to sacred and archaeological sites. She has been a member of Devon Dowsers for 30 years.
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Christian Taylor
Christian is a member of the fungal education and outreach committee of the British Mycological Society. He is also a member of the British Ecological Society, Royal Entomological Society and the Microbiology in Schools Advisory committee. Christian has a PhD in fungal and insect ecology from University of Bath and teaches ecology, sustainability, biological and environmental sciences through the Open University.
What people are saying…
“Dartmoor’s daughter! She offers something quite other to the average but pleasant run-of-the-mill guided walk round Dartmoor’s velvet hills…
…through taking a more holistic approach and tailoring her wealth of information (and walking speed!) to the individual as much as possible. This ranges from the geological to the spiritual, with a huge dollop of folklore and even medicinal herbs thrown into the mix. She will invite you to swim in hidden pools, taste berries and succulents from the burgeoning surrounding flora and fauna and try dowsing as she leads you entirely off-piste, clambering over rocks and tors. Walking is interspersed with talking, while resting in mystic stone circles, sky-gazing and marvelling at the all-embracing surroundings. Her enthusiasm positively fizzes for her subject: Dartmoor, which has been home to her family for some generations. What more apt name could there be for this warm, inspiring guide but Dartmoor’s Daughter!”