Audio Forest Therapy Walk: Hearing

Description

Hello and Welcome!

I’m Duncan.  I’m a certified Nature & Forest Therapy guide and I’ll be your guide for this program.  I want to thank for your interest and for taking the time to experience the natural world.  This is walk 1 of 5 of the audio program that you are invited to listen to. Over the course of the next 5 walks, I will be guiding you towards experiencing nature through the traditional 5 senses, sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing.   By the end of our time, you will be familiarized in a practice rooted in Japan called, shinrin-yoku which literally translates as “Forest Bathing” or “taking in the atmosphere of the forest”.

By purchasing this session, you will receive (1) 45 minute download of a audio guided forest bathing walk for you to take into nature with you!

• Walk 2: Hearing

HOW TO LISTEN

Listen to the relevant session from your mobile device each week while you are in nature.  Just like a self-guided audio tour at a museum, you will listen to the recording while walking and experiencing nature.  I recommend that you adjust the settings of your device so you don’t receive any calls or notifications by putting it on airplane mode.  Please listen with the speaker of your mobile device and situate it in your breast pocket any pocket so that you can hear my voice clearly.  I have designed the recordings to unfold in real time and at a natural pace.  You are encouraged to bring a tea in a thermos with you on your walks especially for the taste session:)

Audio Samples:

Sit Spot

Welcome Back!

Let’s begin

Smell

Audio Program Download Instructions

Duncan Murdoch

NATURE & FOREST THERAPY GUIDE Duncan is a Certified Nature & Forest Therapy guide living and working in Vermont. As an interdisciplinary thinker, Duncan has accrued his experience and knowledge from improvisational and film Meisner based acting, teaching, producing original theater, painting & sculpting, horticulture, land management and music. Duncan grew up on the shores of Lake Champlain in rural Vermont where his deep connection to Nature was formed. After receiving his Nature & Forest Therapy Guide Certification from ANFT in 2015, he began his official practice in New York City guiding the first Forest Bathing groups in Central Park. He worked as a Horticulturalist for the NYC parks Department and co-created the first shinrin-yoku forested walking trail on Randall’s Island. He moved back to Vermont in 2015 and began his work with the Intervale Center growing and planting native trees and stewarding the land. He now serves on the South Burlington Natural Resource Committee and is a board member of the South Burlington Land Trust. He is part of the UVM Integrative Health Practitioner Network and frequently conducts Forest Therapy walks throughout the beautiful state with his organization, Nature Connection Guide.