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Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing for your Health and Wellbeing
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Reduce stress and anxiety and elevate your overall well-being with forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) in the centre of Rendlesham Forest situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Join me for this slow relaxing walk as I guide you through a series of sensory immersive meditative and mindful experiences. This is an opportunity for you to disconnect and immerse yourself in the joyful experience of being in nature. Forest bathing is a beautiful self-care experience that will reset your nervous system for true rest and relaxation.
About Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku)
Forest bathing is the Japanese well-being practice of letting nature into our body through our senses. In Japan it is known as shinrin-yoku which translates ‘to bathe in the atmosphere of the forest’ or Forest Bathing.
Forest bathing is different from any other type of nature walk. Gentle walks of around 1-1½ kilometers (½-1 mile) last about 1 1/2 hours. Guided sessions offer experiences that support the awakening of your senses which reduce the static of your inner voice allow you to be present and help you establish a deeper connection to nature.
The psychological and physical benefits of forest bathing include:
- reduced stress and anxiety
- lower blood pressure and heart rate
- reduced inflammation
- improved cardiac and pulmonary function
- increased focus
- enhanced mood
- reduced mental and physical pain
Each walk offers a different blend of mindfulness and meditative invitations fun and sometimes interactive activities like Earth Art Music Making Nature Music from our Sound Lab or a Tea Ceremony.
Space is limited to 12. By booking you, and all participants included in your booking agree to the outdoor consent for services.
*This event is held in partnership with Forestry England.
If the event holder has to cancel (severe weather or the event does not meet the minimum number of participants) participants have the choice of refunding the ticket price less a £2.50 admin fee or transferring the ticket to another event date (see below conditions).
If participants miss an event, a refund is not given however, if we receive a 48-hour notice of their inability to attend, they are able to transfer to another event date.
In all cases, ticket transfers are only accepted if:
- There is space at the alternate date,
- The alternate event is held within six months from the original date, and
- Attendance is requested within 7 days of the alternate event date.