Forest Bathing
What does a Forest Bathing session involve?
A Forest Bathing consists of a relaxed walk in a natural environment, in a group, lasting between 1-3 hours , and with a person who guides the experience offering invitations (a special type of activities) that lead us to connect with the environment through our senses.
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Disconnect from the rush and obligations and feel at one with Nature
Types of Forest Bathing
Nighttime forest bathing
Live the magic of the forest at night. Let yourself be rocked by the night sounds and awaken your imagination
The forest at your event
Add a Forest Bathing session to your event, it will become an unforgettable experience.
Inspiration from Nature
Forest bathing for groups to reduce stress, burn-out, creativity and motivation
On the beach and under water!
Marine Forest Bathing, connecting with the coast and the sea, feeling part of the environment among algae, plants, fish and other inhabitants of this place.
My story with Forest Bathing
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I trained as a guide in 2020 at the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy , as their way of understanding forest bathing as a relational practice (in English, Relational Forest Therapy ) made sense of what I myself had experienced with nature.
From that moment on, and following this methodology which is based on the vision that it is necessary to restore the relationships between humans and the environment , I have guided Forest Bathing with groups of people of all conditions and ages in their encounters with nature.
My personal style as a Forest Bathing Guide is simple and honest. I highly value the relationships that are established. in the group and between people and nature, be authentic and personal .
The therapist is the forest
The guide opens the doors
My personal style as a Forest Bathing Guide is simple and honest. I highly value authentic and personal relationships within the group and between people and nature.
Although forest bathing can be therapeutic for participants, it is not therapy. since the guide is not a therapist of any kind.
What is sought (and can be healed) is the relationship of people with themselves, with others, and with the more-than-human world. That is why we say that " The therapist is the forest. The guide opens the gates. "
Accessible to anyone
The invitations offered by the guide in a Forest Bathing experience are accessible to everyone, as they are simple, open, sensory proposals without objectives . to achieve.
The most liberating thing about an invitation is that there's no right
way to do it.
It's not about how to do it, but rather the best way to do it is the one that makes the participant feel comfortable at that moment.
or wrong
The nature that is within you
A Forest Bathing invites us to become aware again of relationships we thought we had lost:
With our intelligent and sensitive body
With the more-than-human world or living nature
With imagination , intuition, and the "sense of the heart"
Where does this practice come from?
The name "Forest Bathing" is a translation of the original Japanese concept Shinrin-Yoku : bathing in the atmosphere of the forest
This name was coined by the Japan Forestry Agency in 1982 , when they were looking for an accessible and inexpensive practice that could help people reduce their high levels of anxiety and stress .
The way Forest Bathing is practiced today in most parts of the world is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, with influences from Zen Buddhism, the worldview of indigenous peoples, nature-based therapies, the philosophy of the collective unconscious, and ecosophy or Earth wisdom itself.