“… I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.”

- Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest

What is Forest Bathing?

Forest Bathing is a trauma-sensitive and relational practice that supports the wellness of all beings - human and other-than-human.

As your Forest Bathing Guide, I offer a supportive, collaborative, and loving container for your experience. In Forest Bathing, I offer ‘invitations’: opportunities to let the thinking mind quiet, attune to your senses, and connect with the land around you. You can think of invitations as simple somatic, mindful, or “body-ful”, practices.

We move very slowly in Forest Bathing. We don’t go very far - instead we have some time to slow down and really notice the living world around and within us. Forest Bathing is a way to care for yourself, and to nurture reciprocal relationships with land, soil, trees, plants, and other beings.

Ready to explore your guided Forest Bathing options? You can schedule here. To learn more about who can benefit from this practice, please visit this page.

 FAQs

  • People come to Forest Bathing for:

    • Somatic support: to reconnect with and care for the precious bodies that are our lives

    • Seasons of grief: of all kinds. In addition to privately scheduled support, I often offer sessions specifically for grieving people - because sometimes it’s helpful to be with other grievers

    • Experiencing (in)fertility, miscarriage, or other family expansion challenges

    • Living with acute or chronic health issues: including advanced serious illness or terminal diagnoses. If an outdoor walk is not accessible, I offer remotely-guided sessions, which provide all the benefits of Forest Therapy and can be done indoors.

    • Supporting the work for liberation, justice, and the world to come: Caring for the body and spirit while working to dismantle whiteness, patriarchy, capitalism, and other violent and oppressive systems

    • Queer/Trans support, resilience, and joy: in addition to privately scheduled Forest Therapy, I often offer Forest Bathing specifically for LGBTQ2S+ people (and those questioning/clarifying)

    • Celebration: Coming together to celebrate birthdays, engagements, a beautiful life lived, children entering the family, and more

  • People who struggle with silent meditation and other forms of mindfulness often find Forest Bathing a gentler, more accessible experience.

    Time with the land can settle and soothe our hearts, minds, spirits, bodies, and nervous systems - or simply give us space to sit with what is. Forest Bathing is a space to be with the shifting shades and fabric of life.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • Guided Forest Bathing is a practice that creates space to be slow, and to drop into our bodies within a trauma sensitive container.

    Forest Bathing offers many opportunities to sit, lay on the ground, and move slowly - in fact, the entire experience can be done sitting (or in whatever position(s) works best).

    Most importantly, this practice is based in invitations. This means that each person decides what works for their body. Agency and autonomy, held within relationship with self and Other, are the roots from which Forest Bathing grows. Differing needs are expected and welcome, and accommodations joyfully offered.

    All are welcomed and cherished.

  • Yes, please email me at hello@rosecedarforesttherapy.com to arrange Forest Bathing for you and your group.

We are nature -
we are not separate from the
world around us.
Guided Forest Bathing helps us remember our home in ourselves, and in the wider world.

Whiteness, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression want us to forget that we are nature - always, everywhere we go.

Forest Bathing offers us time to remember our bones, blood, skin, spirit, minds, hearts - and to remember that we’re made of everything around us.

All that came before and that we live alongside continuously creates us. Spending time with the other-than-human world allows us to weave and re-weave lifegiving relationships - with ourselves, with other humans, and with everyone else (everyone else being moss, bark, dirt, leaves, fungus, beetles, you know - Everyone).