PHILADELPHIA – If you accompany Tami Astorino and Rachel Rubin into the forest, you’re in for an invitation to explore, gently, slowly, one sense at a time. Look around with fascination rather than ...

It’s time to take tree-hugging seriously. This is according to nature therapy guides like Michael Stein-Ross, founder of Cascadia Forest Therapy. One type of nature therapy? Forest bathing. In spite ...

Bluebells bloom across a small forest in Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom. Studies show that forest bathing in woodlands such as this can boost physical and mental health. Photograph by Alex ...

BEND, Ore. — Mindy Lockhart likens connecting with nature to developing a friendship. “You want to hang out with your friends on a frequent basis,” Lockhart said. “Think of your relationship with ...

Audubon Community Nature Center offers an opportunity to escape one’s usual stress and learn a practice that can be used on one’s own. Emily Hampton, an Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides ...

“Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” This quote by naturalist John Muir is how Jane Moore of Orick recently described her experience practicing what’s known as “forest bathing.” ...

A group of people forest bathing in Atlanta with Quinnie Cook-Richardson, who owns and runs several forest-bathing retreats in the city. Courtesy of K. Anoa Monsho As an awkward, leggy young girl, I ...

PHILADELPHIA – If you accompany Tami Astorino and Rachel Rubin into the forest, you’re in for an invitation to ex-plore – gently, slowly, one sense at a time. Look around with fascination rather than ...

As an awkward, leggy young girl, I often found solace wandering in the woods behind our house on the former Presidio Army base in San Francisco. Our backyard swooped up a hill—we used to deconstruct ...