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Sunday Morning Slow Down - The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
May 31, 2020 | 09:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
125 Arborway
Boston, MA 02130, USA
Forest Bathing is inspired by Shinrin-yoku, a prominent feature of preventative medicine and healing in Japan. From increased cerebral blood flow to stronger immune defenses, there has been extensive research demonstrating what can happen when we relax, unplug and open our senses to the natural world in community.
This slow-paced guided therapeutic experience promotes wellness through a series of gentle sensory-opening invitations that welcome us to notice more of our natural surroundings. By deepening our connection with the natural world and each other, we open ourselves up to the healing medicine of the forest. Forest Bathing is part of a global effort to tend to the stressful conditions of living in modern industrialized civilization.
Tam is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Trainer and Mentor with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs. Tam believes the practice of Forest Bathing can deepen and broaden our relationships. Tam’s training includes an understanding of the scientific framework of Forest Therapy as well as the cultural repair that is made possible by holding space for seekers of this medicine to share and bear witness in community as part of the natural world. Tam created Toadstool Walks as a way to offer support in finding one’s own way towards experiencing belonging to the natural world.
For more information about Tam, check out ToadstoolWalks.com
VIRTUAL Facebook Live @Wôknnature - Donations Accepted -- No Fee
May 31, 2020 | 09:00 A.M. - 09:30 A.M.
Inyo National Forest, United States
JOYn me for “Pleasures of Presence” a VIRTUAL guided, mindful, meditation to deepen our roots with nature and to ourselves. Connect with nature, reduce stress and enhance your health and well being. Immerse in nature with your senses and experience a renewed sense of nature and self connected-ness.
Allow yourself 25 minutes in a quiet comfortable place, to easily view your screen.
Inviting participants to Relax, Receive and Restore one’s self, allowing “Nature to Nurture”, in the natural surroundings of the Eastern Sierra, CA, "VIRTUALLY" on Facebook Live.
JOYn me, your guide, Desiree and the calming sounds of the water in nature. (Desiree - CA Naturalist and Trained "Nature and Forest Bathing" Guide)
SPECIAL EVENT: Urban Forest Therapy - Camp Reinberg - Chicago, IL.
Jun 04, 2020 | 09:00 A.M. - 02:00 P.M.
1801 N Quentin Rd
Palatine, IL 60074, USA
This multi-day program will be held June 4th - 7th, 2020. This event is focused is exclusively focused on the needs of the Chicago-land area. In partnership with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, we will be exploring Forest Therapy with our own guides and guests of the Forest Preserves.
Urban forest therapy is a three night retreat in Northern Chicago offered to area guides and those invited by the FPCC. This will be an introduction to forest therapy for some and a deeper dive for others. Everyone will be taught as well as teach from their experiences in the forest as well as with the other participants. This is the first of many immersions to come, focusing on special populations of people in specific geographic areas. The Forest Preserves of Cook County is the largest and oldest forest preserve in the nation. Its hIstory names many dedicated and hard-working people with a like vision. The biodiversity of the preserves rivals the rainforests of the tropics. The focus of the preserves is not only environmental education, but recreation, which draws over 62,000 visitors per year.
SPECIAL EVENT: Urban Forest Therapy - Camp Reinberg - Chicago, IL.
Jun 04, 2020 | 09:00 A.M. - 02:00 P.M.
1801 N Quentin Rd
Palatine, IL 60074, USA
This multi-day program will be held June 4th - 7th, 2020. This event is focused is exclusively focused on the needs of the Chicago-land area. In partnership with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, we will be exploring Forest Therapy with our own guides and guests of the Forest Preserves.
Urban forest therapy is a three night retreat in Northern Chicago offered to area guides and those invited by the FPCC. This will be an introduction to forest therapy for some and a deeper dive for others. Everyone will be taught as well as teach from their experiences in the forest as well as with the other participants. This is the first of many immersions to come, focusing on special populations of people in specific geographic areas. The Forest Preserves of Cook County is the largest and oldest forest preserve in the nation. Its hIstory names many dedicated and hard-working people with a like vision. The biodiversity of the preserves rivals the rainforests of the tropics. The focus of the preserves is not only environmental education, but recreation, which draws over 62,000 visitors per year.
United States Botanic Garden - Botanical Bliss, An Immersive Nature Walk
Jun 05, 2020 | 06:00 P.M. - 08:00 P.M.
100 Maryland Avenue Southwest
Washington, DC, USA
Studies have shown that spending time in nature is good for both mental and physical health. This slow-moving, immersive tour through the USBG outdoor gardens aims to promote wellness and reflections on nature. Join Melanie as she explores the beauty and wonder of the Garden through all five senses. Stop to periodically share experiences and observations with other participants and sip some pure maple sap “tea” at the conclusion of the journey.
Tour meets by the entrance to the Conservatory on the Terrace
Half Day Retreat - Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
Jun 06, 2020 | 10:15 A.M. - 01:15 P.M.
293 Moose Hill Pkwy
Sharon, MA 02067, USA
Forest Bathing is inspired by Shinrin-yoku, a prominent feature of preventative medicine and healing in Japan. From increased cerebral blood flow to stronger immune defenses, there has been extensive research demonstrating what can happen when we relax, unplug and open our senses to the natural world in community.
This slow-paced guided therapeutic experience promotes wellness through a series of gentle sensory-opening invitations that welcome us to notice more of our natural surroundings. By deepening our connection with the natural world and each other, we open ourselves up to the healing medicine of the forest. Forest Bathing is part of a global effort to tend to the stressful conditions of living in modern industrialized civilization.
Tam is a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Trainer and Mentor with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs. Tam believes the practice of Forest Bathing can deepen and broaden our relationships. Tam's training includes an understanding of the scientific framework of Forest Therapy as well as the cultural repair that is made possible by holding space for seekers of this medicine to share and bear witness in community as part of the natural world. Tam created Toadstool Walks as a way to offer support in finding one's own way towards experiencing belonging to the natural world.
For more information about Tam, check out ToadstoolWalks.com
Audubon Naturalist Society - Budbreak and Spring Wildflower Walk - Theodore Roosevelt Island
Jun 10, 2020 | 10:00 A.M. - 02:00 P.M.
8940 Jones Mill Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA
Savor the natural joys of each season on forest bathing walks led by Melanie Choukas-Bradley, a longtime ANS field trip leader and the author of The Joy of Forest Bathing—Reconnect with Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life. Discover the magic of shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing,” a nature-oriented mindfulness practice that originated in Japan and has become popular all over the world. Our leader is a Nature & Forest Therapy Guide with certification from the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides and Programs of Sonoma County, California. Experience the restoration of Woodend as we explore and commune with the living things in our meadows, forest, and Blair Garden. A serving of maple sap “tea” and a sharing of nature poetry will conclude each walk. NOTE: Email [email protected] for info on how to register
Rock Creek Park - Spring Walk - Politics & Prose
Jun 13, 2020 | 09:30 A.M. - 01:00 P.M.
5200 Glover Road Northwest
Washington, D.C., USA
Join Melanie Choukas-Bradley, the author of A Year in Rock Creek Park—the Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, D.C. and The Joy of Forest Bathing—Reconnect with Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life, for a walk under the trees in the Boundary Bridge area of Rock Creek Park. Susan Austin Roth, the Rock Creek Park book's photographer and a Virginia Master Naturalist, will co-lead the walk, schedule permitting. Melanie and Susan are naturalists who frequently lead guided walks in the park, and they are intimately acquainted with the trees and wildflowers growing along Rock Creek. Melanie and Susan will share their love of nature and knowledge of the area’s ecology.
You'll enjoy a spring nature walk under the trees in the Boundary Bridge area of the park, where the group will look for Virginia bluebells, spring beauties, trout lilies and other early spring wildflowers of the floodplain forest as we witness the miracle of “budbreak” among the park’s venerable trees.
The tour will take place on Saturday, April 11th from 9:30 a.m. to roughly 1 p.m. The group will meet at the Boundary Bridge parking lot found along Beach Drive, where attendees can park. To get there, take the East-West Highway (Route 410) east from Connecticut Avenue (a right-hand turn if driving north on Connecticut from D.C. and a left-hand turn if driving south from the Beltway). Take the East-West Highway to Beach Drive and turn right (south) and drive to the locked gate across Beach Drive at the District line. Park in the parking lot just before the gate or along the road if the parking lot is full.
Because the tour should last up to 3 1/2 hours, attendees are encouraged to bring water, snacks, and a light lunch. In addition, sunscreen and bug spray may be needed. Bring binoculars if you wish.
We will cover up to 2 ½ miles at a slow hiking pace with some elevation change on hiking trails. There are no restrooms at the meeting location or along the route.
Audubon Naturalist Society - Bluebells and Budbreak at Boundary Bridge - Summer Solstice
Jun 20, 2020 | 09:30 A.M. - 02:00 P.M.
8940 Jones Mill Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA
We’re delighted that the author of the award-winning book, A Year in Rock Creek Park and the critically acclaimed, City of Trees, will offer her 14th year of nature walks for ANS in the country’s oldest urban national park. On our walk, we will witness the annual floral miracle of Virginia bluebells, spring beauties, and trout lilies in the floodplain forest, as we admire the leaves of tulip tree and American beech begin to spill from their buds. We’ll hope to catch bloodroot, wild ginger, cut-leafed toothwort and other spring ephemerals in bloom as we explore both floodplain and upland woods at a leisurely pace. Our lunch stop, high above the creek on a dramatic rock outcrop offering, will offer spectacular views. Here, we’ll do a bit of “forest bathing,” time permitting. Throughout, we’ll keep our eyes and ears open for belted kingfishers, wood ducks, migrating songbirds, and tiny spring peepers
Blue Heron Nature Preserve
Jun 20, 2020 | 09:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
4055 Roswell Road Northeast
Atlanta, Georgia 30342, USA
Blue Heron Nature Preserve is a 30-acre haven for nature in an urban environment. Blue Heron is dedicated to preserving the natural and native world that exists within the Preserve. Experience a deep nature connection on this 2-hour walk with Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Phyllis, Abramson, RN, PhD. Peel the layers of stress away and support healing by experiencing the medicine of the forest. We’ll do a series of relaxing and engaging activities to engage our senses, deepen nature connection, hone intuition and connect with the natural world around us.
