The Examined Path Through The healing power of nature — forest bathing

The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku — forest bathing — is really the ancient practice of paying attention while standing among trees, and the fact that it required a name and a clinical study says more about modernity than it does about forests. The forest has always been a healer; only recently did we forget to go there, and recently did we require proof before returning. Nasreddin would have said: the tree does not ask for your stress; it simply takes it.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.