Renew Your Connection to the Natural World and Find More Ease and Calm.
No experience necessary.
Forest bathing is a nature connection experience inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku. These immersive experiences offer the chance to break away from the stress of daily life and to find healing and nourishment through intimate engagement with the beings with whom we share our place.
While offering a renewed sense of interconnection with the natural world forest bathing also allows access to beneficial nervous system states that can support our long-term health and well-being. Research has proven that forest bathing boosts immune strength improves cognitive functioning and reduces stress anger anxiety depression and sleeplessness.
Offered through a series of guided invitations the walk will help participants move beyond the chatter of the thinking mind and find a deeper sense of embodied engagement enabling access to new ways of being and a transformed relationship to self and others. This intentional practice of embodied presence cultivates access to powerful experiences of curiosity awe and wonder that are essential for resilient engagement with this era of dramatic change and transformation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Leach Botanical Garden, 704 SE 122nd Ave., Portland, United States