Deepen your Connection
With Forest Bathing & Nature Connection Coaching
Choose what’s best for you to help deepen your connection to nature and support your wellbeing.
Forest Therapy (shinrin-yoku, Forest Bathing) is a research-based practice for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. The decades old practice originated in Japan and is known as shinrin-yoku, which literally translates to “taking in the forest” or “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. Your Nature & Forest Therapy Guide builds on those benefits and looks beyond to what happens when people remember that we are a part of nature and are intrinsically connected to all other beings in fundamental ways.
Forest Therapy is a practice. It is open-ended; there is no prescription for what a person “should” experience, or what benefits they “should” receive. Instead, it is a practice of developing a deepening relationship of reciprocity, in which the forest and the practitioner find a way to work together that supports the wholeness and wellness of each. In Forest Therapy, there is a clearly defined sequence of guided events that provides structure to the experience, while embracing the many opportunities for creativity and serendipity offered by the forest and the individual inspiration of each guide. This practice, developed by ANFT has become the most-widely used framework for Forest Therapy in the world.
Welcome to Nature Connection Coaching! I am here as a collaborator where we will proactively explore what it means to reconnect with the natural world and cultivate a deeper bond with nature. We will take a holistic approach, delving into the intricacies of your relationship with the environment. In our time together, we will explore what aspects of your life can contribute more fully to your connection with nature and begin to co-create a plan to take actionable steps towards a more profound relationship with the natural world. This is entirely up to you.
Unlike other coaches, I am not here to dictate activities or assume to be the expert on your connection to nature. That’s you! My role is to partner with you in a thought-provoking and creative way that inspires you to maximize your potential. I am here to communicate and support every part of yourself that you are willing to share so that you can tap into your intrinsic motivation and unique intuition in your relationship with nature. I will hope from you that you will work with me to find that source within. I will ask questions and act as a mirror so that you can see for yourself what direction you need to take. As a nature connection coach, I will provide accountability during our time together and follow up on ideas and goals you express. This can be a very exciting and transformational time, and I’m so glad you’re here.
Nature Connection Coaching involves a blend of traditional coaching practices and nature-based approaches to provide the best individualized whole-person support
“ I have never, ever in my life, taken 2 hours to walk 1/4 mile – and enjoyed it so much. You were right, it was quite different from anything I’d done, yet it all seemed so natural I had to wonder why I had never thought of doing it myself. Thus, the power of Forest Bathing! You are a wonderful guide -> I felt very comfortable with you right from the start, and so delighted in sharing the delights of my own small forest with you. You definitely shined a new light. ”
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-E.O Wilson, Author of Biophilia