Forest Bathing

Midway

When

June 10–Aug. 2, 2025

Days Vary, Times vary

Cost: $25 - $40

Where

Leach Botanical Garden

6704 SE 122nd Ave
Portland, OR 97236

Forest bathing is a nature connection experience inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku. These immersive experiences offer the chance to break away from the stress of daily life and to find healing and nourishment through intimate engagement with the beings with whom this place is shared. While offering a renewed sense of interconnection with the natural world, forest bathing also allows access to beneficial nervous system states that can support long-term health and well-being. Research has proven that forest bathing boosts immune strength, improves cognitive functioning, and reduces stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness.
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Offered through a series of guided invitations, the walk will help participants move beyond the chatter of the thinking mind and find a deeper sense of embodied engagement, enabling access to new ways of being and a transformed relationship to self and others. This intentional practice of embodied presence cultivates access to powerful experiences of curiosity, awe, and wonder that are essential for resilient engagement with this era of dramatic change and transformation.

No experience necessary,  just an open heart and willingness to connect. Enrollment is limited to 15 people.

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