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Motz Studios is a Minneapolis-based wellness provider of evidence-based therapeutic forest immersion walks. David Motzenbecker, Founder & Principal, is an ANFT-Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Trail Certification Consultant, and licensed Landscape Architect with nearly 20 years of design experience.

As a certified Forest Therapy Guide, trainer and mentor with ANFT, Christy has found herself in the forests of the world, falling in love at every turn. In those forests, her voice, her commitments to herself and the world, and her love, strengthens.

Since childhood I've had a love of animals & an enjoyment of spending time outdoors. This led me to my work as an environmental & outdoor educator on Long Island, New York. This work afforded me the opportunity to spend time in nature on a routine basis, something that many people don't get to do!

Phyllis accompanies groups on walks through various natural settings in Georgia. As a registered nurse, a certified Forest Bathing guide and a marriage and family therapist, Abramson appreciates the role of Forest Bathing as an important complement to any health practice, including her own.

As a guide trained by ANFT, I will lead you in an ecotherapy experience. Shinrin yoku is designed to improve your connection to self and to the more than human world. This nature immersion has many wellness benefits including, stress reduction and mood enhancement.

As a certified forest therapy guide, mind-body movement educator & public health advocate I have devoted countless hours of training: exploring health, nature connection, embodied movement & yoga, kinesiology, anatomy & neurology. The earth is my ally, nature is my playground, and my body a compass.

Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC author and certified nature and forest therapy guide who leads forest bathing walks, field trips and tree tours for the Audubon Naturalist Society, the United States Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian Associates, the Maryland Native Plant Society, etc.

Kelly Brown is a Lower Elementary guide of a bustling, inquisitive, nature-loving, and socially active group of students. A second life path under construction for Kelly comes in the field of Nature and Forest Therapy, one that matches well with his life and work at Butler Montessori School.

Rhana’s entrepreneurial journey is multi-faceted with the human and Nature connection at the center of each endeavor. Beginning in the 1980’s with her floral boutique, herbal healing, aromatherapy educator and dowsing, unfolding into an award-winning holistic spa, business sustainability educator, business mentor, and since 2015 naturalist, forest therapy guide and applied eco-psychology practitioner.

The forest is "For-Rest" - That is my guiding thought when I lead walks in Central New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. I am a retired Mastered prepared psychiatric nurse with certificates in Mindfulness, Horticultural Therapy and Forest therapy. Nature is the therapist - I open the door.