
What Is Forest Bathing?
A forest bathing trip involves spending a short, leisurely time in a forest setting, for the purpose of absorbing the forest’s healing ambience. Key to the experience is the inhalation of wood essential oils, similar to natural aromatherapy, but v...
Why You Need To Try Japanese Forest Bathing
Forest bathing has a positive impact on many markers of stress. It decreases blood pressure, anxiety, and stress hormones. When we feel relaxed we activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the opposite of our fight-or-flight response.
3 Reasons You Should Be Forest Bathing
Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is therapeutic in a lot of ways, and a growing number of studies back that up. To bathe yourself in the forest is to use all your senses to surround yourself with the colors, smells, sounds, and textures of nature ...
5 Simple Steps To Practising Forest Bathing In A Park
If you think it all sounds too good to be true, why not give it a go yourself? If you don’t have a forest or woodland nearby, you can also practice Shinrin-Yoku in the park. Just follow this short guide.
Forest Bathing: A Stress Buster
What sets forest bathing apart from simply taking a walk in the forest is that we consciously take in the sights, sounds, smells, and the whole experience, rather than allowing our minds to do the things they habitually do, like putting together a...
An Interview With A Forest Bathing Researcher
Dr. Qing Li tells that the Forest Medicine has been accepted by “traditional” medicine practitioners in Japan as a preventive medicine for health issues, but not as a treatment for health issues.