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This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
The conversation about the therapeutic effects of quietly pacing through a sea of green with a shady canopy overhead has been going for a few years, originally from the literal translation from 森林浴 (shinrin-yoku) in Japanese to the English "forest bathing." In Japan a prescription can be written to give permission to a stressed worker to spend X number of minutes in a woods on a trail. See also, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_therapy
This photo illustrates the setting, as seen mid-week around 10 a.m. when few people are jogging, walking, biking, or birdwatching here in this wetland and woods in the city of Grand Rapids. Recent books by Merlin Shelldrake (Entangle Lives), Peter Wohlleben (various), and Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree) have backed up the efficacy of forest bathing from the point of view of science.
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Navutu Dreams Resort, Spa & Wellness Retreat features “Forest Bathing” as one of resort’s destination-themed wellness activities designed to promote a relaxing and rejuvenating holiday. Aside from Yoga practice at the temple, sunrise meditation and other wellness activities offered by the resort, this new addition to resort’s wellness activities involves walking into the woods and taking in the forest atmosphere which helps you to connect mind, body, and Mother Nature.
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Small creek in forest along Snowgrass Trail, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington State, USA
Elbow River Valley. Tsuu T'ina Nation's territory lays in the upper half of the picture.
Griffith Woods Park is below the line cut in the forest. My 'playground', the place where I practice 'shinrin yoku' :)
Gordon Hempton has made a career-sized quest for natural spots free from human noises. A generation ago about 15 locations in the continental USA fit his strict definition (15 minutes uninterrupted by people's sounds). More recently the number has dropped to just a few. At his website, www.soundtracker.com there is a link to the "square inch of silence" challenge.
This video clip is only a few seconds long, but is representative of this are near the south boundary of the Manistee National Forest about a mile from the North Country Trail start near the Croton Dam on the Muskegon River in west Michigan's Newaygo County. Only a moment of quiet passes before a car or truck passes on the paved (Croton) road further north. Other times during the day hike gunshots, jets, prop planes, helicopters, deafening motorcycles, and the shouts of possibly inebriated river float recreators interrupted the sounds of the woods: a dozen different bird voices, wind passing through evergreen needles and summer foliage, buzzing of winged insects, and the ambient hum of so much that is green and growing.
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This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.