Nature Therapy
Individual and Group Sessions
Earth can support you in incredible ways
that some people may not.
De-stress and heal your pain from issues in your relationships with others and yourself. With my skilled guidance, your insights come from engaging with plants, birds, flowers, etc. We meet outdoors for mental-emotional processing and the support of earth elements.
Beyond problem solving, I facilitate experiences that help you experience your core existential relationship with the earth. This can help you clarify priorities, find belonging, and illuminate purpose.
Your individual 1-1 session can be:
*in-person (under Kansas trees in a private Lawrence park) or
*virtual (we're connected via phone or laptop, each on our earth patches).
View a virtual demo session:
A 59 year-old Jewish woman and cancer survivor shares in her grief of aging (and self-judgment that her anger might infer she’s ungrateful to be alive).
Instructions will be sent to you to prepare.
People have amazing experiences!
Health Benefits
Intentional time in nature,
especially with a trained guide, can:
~regulate blood pressure, lower cortisol, and lower stress.
~increase immunity (from increased NK cells and improved mood).
~show higher scores on Quality of Life measurements.
~decrease reports of Chronic Widespread Pain.
~alleviate anxiety and depression symptoms.
~improve confidence and self-esteem.
~reduce symptoms associated with ADHD, trauma, psychosis, addiction.
~increase sense of gratitude and generosity.
~increase patience, life satisfaction and motivation.
~and much more.
(Research studies and evidence)
Group Nature Therapy
We mindfully “bathe” in the healing atmosphere of the woods, prairie, and ecosystems we inhabit, akin to Japanese shinrin-yoku, Forest Bathing:
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20 minute guided meditation to de-stress,
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activities that engage dozens of our senses to deepen our relationship with ourselves and nature,
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medicinal tea, locally harvested.
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opportunities to process in compassionate Listening circles.
We walk less than 1/2 mile.
We walk away with renewed connection to our purpose for living on Earth.
Group options:
~Join an upcoming public workshop
To join an open group, Book your
1 hour intro session (first one is free!)
or 2.5 hour Moonful session;
or view & follow sessions on Facebook.
just for your nonprofit organization, friends or family. Forest Bathing Sessions make fantastic retreat days, wellness incentives, and meaningful gifts.
~Book a Business Group Session.
It can be a full forest bathing session or shorter nature meditation workshop. We can highly tailor it to your focus. Nature-Connected Wellness Programs are great for your employees. You’re awesome to provide rejuvenation!
A Practice or Prescription?
Like mindfulness practices, the more you practice nature & forest therapy, the more you benefit. And, in the UK and Canada, doctors prescribe forest therapy to help patients heal.
“Forest Therapy, also known as Forest Bathing, is a relational practice that brings people into deeper intimacy with natural places. And one of those natural places is our natural self; it’s a practice that holds the possibility of meeting again the kernel of who we are, and what we are born to be. It’s also important to recognize how the practice supports every aspect of our well-being.
But these effects are really the collateral impacts of a repaired relationship between people and places. Especially for those dealing with ecological grief, the restoration of relationship to place is the beginning of the healing process.”
~Association of Nature and Forest Therapy
