Tag: shinrin-yoku
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Remember Climbing Trees? People Are Taking to the Trees Again
The act is natural, refreshing and fun. Do you realize that tree climbing can help save your sanity, tone your muscles, quiet your mind, and create strong leadership sorely needed for this generation and those to follow? Climbing itself builds balance, confidence, wherewithal, and courage. It allows us to toy with our playful selves, stretching…
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Responsible Ways to Share Spiritual Experiences with Your Dog in Nature
There’s nothing like watching a dog let loose in open nature. They live for this experience. It supercharges their vitality. Leaping, chasing, sniffing, racing…the whole nine yards. I often find I live for these same freedoms and experiences after spending so much time inside. I’ve also observed my dogs in poignant moments outside as well.…
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Deep Connection with Wild Animals: Avenues for Right Relationship with Earth
Being one of millions and millions of ‘living*’ planets now discovered, the Earth, in essence, is a wild animal within a greater population. We’re in sad and yet exciting times. We know a lot. We are aware. We are very skilled, loving and crafty beings. All of this and since I was born (1970) we…
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Who, Me, You? A Forest Therapy Guide?
If anyone out there is remotely considering becoming a Forest Therapy Guide and the upcoming New Zealand training is on your radar, then I’d strongly recommend waiting no longer. But, who am I to say? It recently occurred to me that every person I have recommended to go to guide training camp has come to…
Lost and Found In Nature 