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How Forest Bathing Can Make You Healthier & Why You Need to Try It!
Are you stressed? In this modern era, we all are. But right outside our windows is a solution: Forest Bathing. Have you heard this term yet? What does it really mean to “bathe” in the forest? Forest...
Replace Your Technology with Shinrin-Yoku
Have we all been overpowered by our increasing (nonstop) use of technology? There are so many types of technology surrounding us that we can barely keep up with all of our gadgets. From our wearable...
How Contact with Nature Can Improve Your Mental Health
For all of human existence the concept of nature as a Maternal figure has been a comforting thought. Mother Nature, Gaia, Terra, Mother Earth all are names we’ve given to nature, something that...
Scrolling Through My Medicine Walk
“Let the silence do the heavy lifting.” A phrase often heard before one goes into a negotiation.I wasn’t going into a negotiation, I was going on a Medicine Walk but it seemed appropriate in the...
Benefits of Nature Therapy Activities
In most cases Nature Therapy Activities are experiences where humans intentionally go outdoors so that they can be surrounded by - well - nature! Lots of people express their desire to be one with...
Nature Therapy: What is it, and Why Do We Need It?
Nature Therapy. These two words almost seem to be opposites. Nature is, well, natural. Nature is all around us. It is effortless, it surrounds us. It is spontaneous, healthy. In contrast, the word...
Forest Therapy: Why Become a Certified Guide?
Why become a certified Forest Therapy Guide? Forest Therapy Guides, sometimes called Nature Therapy Guides, are essential for getting the most out of Forest Therapy. Forest Therapy, or Shinrin-Yoku...
Nature Therapy and its Effects on the Human Body
99.9% of humans that have ever existed did so in a natural environment, the remaining .01% have lived in the urbanized post-industrial revolution era. This modern age with its artificial settings...
Forest Therapy: What is it & How Do You Find a Guide?
In our industrialized, technological society, many people fear that while we intuitively have a connection with nature, that connection is becoming weak as we spend less and less time in the outdoor...
