Forest Bathing
âž³ Relax & connect deeply with your senses & nature
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Shinrin-Yoku, is Japanese for 'taking in the forest atmosphere' or 'forest bathing'. In Japan, forest bathing is part of preventive health care. Scientific researchers discovered that spending a few hours with full attention in the forest not only gives pleasant feelings of peace and safety, it also lowers blood pressure, heart rate and tension in the body.
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Through meditative and playful exercises we learn to use the full potential of our body and its senses:
- watch with 'owl eyes'
- fox walk meditation
- learn to understand bird language
- sit spot: your own place in nature where you can relax and observe nature and its cycles.
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Lene Van Steenwinkel is a social worker, dance therapist, and nature lover. She lived with several tribes and is trained in 'The Art of Mentoring', a methodology of Jon Young to learn how to to use the full potential of our senses and how to create a community that lives in connection with its natural environment.
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