Although the arboretum is in a busy section of a growing city, Ramsey said the benefits of tuning out and getting in touch with nature are the same. She led the group of about a dozen through the ...

If forest bathing sounds like a way to “become one with nature,” that’s because it is. Forest bathing and forest therapy, or shinrin-yoku, means taking in all of one’s senses through a forest ...

Every Thursday for the past several months, a small group of people has set out from a little building in Flagstaff to soak in the sights, sounds and smells of nature. They traipse down the sidewalk ...

The point of Sari Telpner’s forest therapy is to teach people how to stop and smell the roses. And maybe taste them, too. It’s all part of the healing practice, often called forest bathing, that aims ...

My husband spent the better part of his forestry career walking through Florida’s wiregrass pine lands where the sight of a rattlesnake coiled in his path was a common occurrence. He often slopped ...

Imagine for a moment you've been stuck inside a building all day with no opportunity to walk outside. When you finally do leave the office or school building or wherever you've been cooped up for ...

People turn to ‘forest bathing’ to escape rising gas prices and Iran war - Based on the Japanese wellness practice of Shinrin ...

Forest bathing, the hottest movement in self-therapy, is not taking a dip in a woodland stream, nor is it a hike in the woods. In fact, if you are merely hiking through the woods, you’re not doing it ...