Forest Bathing
Yachats, Oregon
Open your senses to the magic and beauty of Oregon’s coastal temperate rainforest.
No Walks Currently Scheduled
Contact us to schedule a Private Walk.
Location:
Walks are located in unique forest settings within 10 minutes of Yachats.
Meeting location will be shared upon registration.
Nurture a sacred connection to the natural world and promote well being.
Let wonder and awe bring you into the present moment.
Everyone is Welcome.
No experience necessary; just an open heart and willingness to connect.
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 this Earth home.
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.
On This Walk You will:
Experience the restorative and healing power of slowing down and spending time in the natural world.
Learn practices to reconnect to the natural world to help you cultivate peace and calm.
Wander among spectacular trees and notice the magic and mystery all around you.
Irene Bailey, a certified guide with The Association for Nature and Forest Therapy, will lead the walk.
What is Forest Therapy?
“Forest Therapy is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. Forest Therapy is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, which translates to "forest bathing." Studies have demonstrated a wide array of health benefits, especially in the cardiovascular and immune systems, and for stabilizing and improving mood and cognition. We build on those benefits and look beyond, to what happens when people remember that we are a part of nature, not separate from it, and are related to all other beings in fundamental ways”.
-Association for Nature and Forest Therapy
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable,
those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Guide:
Irene Bailey
Accessibility:
These events involve walking on gravel or dirt paths with some uneven terrain. Please contact us with any questions.
Age Recommendation:
This offering is designed for adults. We recommend that participants be at least 14 years old due to the meditative nature of this offering.
Optional Reading:
Your Guide to Forest Bathing by M. Amos Clifford
You Provide:
•Warm & Comfortable Layers for Walking Outdoors
•Rain Gear
•Water Bottle
***Once registered, you will receive more information about the in-person walk.
Cost:
$40
*No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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Offered rain or shine.
Enrollment is limited to 12 people.