Forest bathing, or “shinrin-yoku” as it’s known in Japan, isn’t just another wellness trend. This nature-immersion practice has quietly transformed from an obscure Japanese therapeutic tradition to a ...

Local practitioners share how the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku, or ‘forest bathing' offers immediate and lasting health benefits and where to try it. Susan Karle, a certified forest guide, boils ...

“Tony will also be delivering a Forest Bathing immersion to mark the feast of Samhain (October 31), which in the Irish ...

Forest bathing is changing how people vacation and recharge, replacing packed itineraries with intentional time in restorative outdoor settings. Forest walks and soft trails have ... Read more The ...

I may be among the last nature-minded media consumers in the country to encounter “forest bathing,” a therapeutic practice that’s currently trending and has nothing whatever to do with backpacking, ...

Walking in the woods has measurable health benefits, and professor Yoshifumi Miyazaki is studying how to spread those benefits to as many people as possible. According to his research, spending time ...

My hiking boots sank into the dampened earth as my fellow "forest bathers" and I climbed a trail in Muir Woods, a redwood forest located 12 miles north of San Francisco. Even though I did not dress ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

Healthy chef and Well+Good Council member Candice Kumai talks about the Japanese practice of reconnecting with nature for a mind-body reboot. When it comes to wellness, chef and best-selling cookbook ...

Leila Nagamine and Elizabeth Mortham examine the roots of a tree during a forest bathing experience in the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum led by Forest Bathing Hawaii guide Phyllis Look. FOREST BATHING is ...

Philadelphi -- 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 ...