Step-By-Step Introduction

All Aboard!

Some people find practicing Nature Therapy easier than meditation because it is easier to focus, so you get more bang-for-the-buck. And just like meditation and yoga, the more often you practice, the better you feel.

Our Nature Therapy walks are fully accessible. If your group includes folks who are feeling their age, in a wheelchair  or recovering from an illness, we are happy for them to take a journey with us.

Preparing the Land

Preparing for a Journey begins days before the walk itself. A week before the walk, our Guide spends time with the land daily.  Keeping the needs of your group in mind, as well as the criteria set by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, the Guide configures a journey best for you. The Guide will also ask permission of the land to bring guests.

Circle Round

Each Journey starts with everyone together in a Journey Circle with the practice unfolding from there. Every Journey is part of a larger practice, much like yoga and meditation. You go at your own pace and each walk, like each yoga class, is similar in structure but a different experience.

Invitations from your Guide

Your guide will share ‘Invitations’ with you. These Invitations help you focus on your senses. Using your senses helps you connect to the people and things around you.

Share your findings (or not)

You may want to share something you noticed in Nature or something you are feeling.

You walk along a pre-scouted trail.

During some walks your intent and awareness may be keen while at other times mindfulness washes over you.

Reach your pinnacle and explore it in depth.

Some people explore new areas, others use the time to take in what is immediately around them.

Follow your path to see what it offers.

This is a time to explore wherever your senses take you.

Return to your Journey Circle.

In the circle, you reflect on what you have seen and felt during your journey.

Time to depart for home

Over the following weeks, you notice the calm and focus your walk continues to provide throughout the day.