Forest Therapy Nashville

Last single public walk before the solstice group launches! Let’s ground and slow down to connect with the land. Refresh and replenish our brains. Soak up the sweetness of this season.
✨DM to save your spot. You may not wanna miss the land in this Fall time. It’s really moving and living. 💖

Forest bathe all the way to the Winter Solstice! Integrate tools and ideas for your life; be yourself in small community; and deepen the restorative benefits of Forest bathing.
For newbies as well as those who have done Forest bathing here and there. Six consecutive weeks of invitational nature connection and guided reflection, journaling, community.
Excited to open this group up! I will love to join you in this journey as we spiral inward towards Winter. Save your spot! DM or email [email protected]. 🌲✨💖

We’re overscheduled, overstimulated, and it’s not going so well y’all. Vulnerable share of actual events and feelings from the human world. ♥️
Most species in nature communicate constantly. With such overwhelm of info in our complex brains (hello 500 events in my algo), humans seem to be moving fast and losing communication threads, diligence, and accountability to each other.

Can we slow down and preserve the integrity of our little webs?! Saying it out loud into the ether in hopes we can! 🙏🏽✨

Putting a drop in this conversation in hopes of always being real ( ) and of nourishing not only nature connection but human connection and nourishment.

I was almost running in the grocery this morning. Then I remembered my forest bathing skills I’ve repped for seven years now. I guided myself to regulation in the cereal aisle.

As a mom with a few jobs, including being an guide, I get amped. I can’t always be outside. Bringing my forest bathing skills inside helps me tremendously.

🙌🏼You can reclaim your senses. Your body. Your nervous system, too. Turn on. Tune in. ✨

Walk with me to remember how, if you’d like some ideas.

So thankful for my forest mentors (human and non) and for this practice every day. It’s a friend and a teacher.

The truth may reveal itself without analyzing the lie! Our brains 🧠 can make stories and nature 🌲 can help.
When our nervous systems are on guard 😬(maybe from a certain event or maybe from life life-ing), we imagine 💭 threats to explain it (“tiger!” “They hate me!” “I’m the worst!”). Untruths.

It’s good to be aware of your habits and patterns of story making, but there’s a helpful triage tool in your bag…. Settling. Grounding. Regulating. 🙌🏼

As the dirt storm of our system settles, we see more clearly. Often, the threat/story we imagined isn’t true. Let nature help you come back to presence and regulation in your system. No tigers. 🐅 🚫

Thank you brains and bodies for protecting us, we’re learning how to work with you! 💖

At the risk of you thinking I’m a loon, I share a brief example of yesterday’s inner dialogue with my yard beings. Many of us need relational feedback, practice in vulnerability, or relationship shifts. Practicing with humans can be tricky. Especially with a history of relational wounding and triggers.

Enter… nature. ✨There’s a web of more-than-human* beings so intricate and massive , and you are a part of it. When you slow down and use your senses to connect with Earth beings, you can practice so many things: using your voice, inhabiting your body, following your intuition and desire, being heard, being responded to, requesting support, being supported, handling delight… the possibilities are as numerous as the human interactions in our lives.

Is this what nature connection sounds like in my head all the time? No. Sometimes it’s less this and more emotion, somatic sensation, or nonverbal understanding. Sometimes painful, sometimes silly. You get the idea.

🌲I invite you to your own practice. Walk into the field of connection and see how it feels. Join a forest therapy walk or schedule a private forest bathing session and I’ll do my best to invite you towards a slower, deeper relationship with the world around you.

*”more-than-human beings” is a term coined by the founder of , Amos Clifford. 🙌🏼