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Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy
NPR Life Kit highlights the science behind forest bathing and the benefits for participants.
This article highlights the results of a research study which confirmed mental and psychology benefits of forest bathing for children and adolescents.
Forest Bathing as a practice developed in the 1980s in Japan as a response to increases in anxiety and stress as a result of urbanization and over-work.
Scientific studies have shown that nature exposure reduces stress, boosts moods and improves cognitive function.
Slow Birding, also known as Mindful Birding or Ornitherapy
In this essay, Holly Merker, author of Ornitherapy: For Your Mind, Body, and Soul and cohost of The Mindful Birding Podcast, shares her journey of birding for wellness and healing.
Strategies and examples to build a Mindful Birding practice.
Avian encounters have been found to boost happiness, relaxation, recover from stress, and more.
Psychology Professor Lizabeth Roemer shares four benefits she's discovered from her birding practice: stress reduction, attention restoration, transcendant experiences, and social connection.
Certified Forest Therapy Trails, Spaces, and Places
National Geographic highlights and elevates the benefits of self-guided therapeutic trails found worldwide.
From the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy: "Certified forest therapy trails, much like the mycelium networks that thread through forest soils, serve a profound role in connecting us to nature and, intrisically, to ourselves."
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