Winter Forest Bathing at Highland Park/ Ridgewood Reservoir

Join us for a restorative Winter Forest Bathing experience at the Highland Park/Ridgewood Reservoir — a stunning natural area perched high above the city, where forests, wetlands, and open sky meet.

This 90-minute gathering invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom of winter. Through guided forest bathing (Shinrin-Yoku) and somatic mindfulness, you’ll explore the rhythm of stillness, releasing the push for productivity and embracing the calm of the season.

🌬️ Opening Grounding & Breathwork – Center yourself in the winter air with a guided intention to arrive fully and breathe into stillness.

🍂 Guided Forest Bathing Walk – Releasing into Winter’s Stillness
Move slowly through the Ridgewood Reservoir trails as we reflect on how nature rests.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to release the pressure to produce, to allow stillness to be enough, and to witness how the forest models dormancy and renewal.

This walk will focus on letting go — of expectations, busyness, overconsumption, and the weight of “new year, new me” ideals.
Instead, we’ll give thanks for what is, honoring the ways we’ve grown and allowing the forest to hold what we’re ready to set down.

We’ll talk gently about healing in nature — what rest teaches us about self-acceptance, and how returning to the rhythms of the earth helps us reconnect with what truly matters.

🪶 Quiet Journaling & Reflection
We’ll pause for a few moments of quiet journaling or contemplation, using writing as a way to release thoughts, invite clarity, and deepen our connection to the season’s stillness.
(Please bring a journal or notebook and pen.)

🍵 Closing Reflection Circle – We’ll gather for a warm moment of gratitude and community, sharing insights and closing with a collective breath of peace.

Even in the cold, the forest offers healing.
Winter invites us to release urgency, soften our pace, and practice stillness.

Benefits of Winter Forest Bathing:

• 🌿 Reduces stress and lowers blood pressure
• 💙 Improves mood and emotional balance
• 👣 Offers new perspective and sensory engagement
• 🪷 Encourages reflection and deep rest

As we walk, we’ll notice how nature embodies restoration — how trees conserve energy, how light shifts across still water, and how the landscape teaches us that rest is growth.

This session will be a mindful acknowledgment of rest — letting go of busyness, consumerism, and “new year productivity” culture, and instead, honoring where we are — as nature does.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Highland Park, Jackie Robinson Parkway, Brooklyn, United States

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