Healing Forest is a treasure trove of unique nature connection ideas from around the world. Let us take you on a journey to create remarkable changes in life through nature. Discover new ideas that help you become calmer, healthier and more resilient.
Know how to care for your mind, body, and relationships with nature, in nature. Learn how to grow deep, lasting connections that support you every step of the way.
Peace. Happiness. Health.
Inside the Healing Forest website you will find the best nature activities, arts, walks, games, meditations for your wellbeing.
Also uncover stories, films, articles and insights that nourish you from within.
Collect priceless benefits for yourself and your loved ones with the nature connection activities given below. ⬇️
The Healing Forest
As humans we are part of nature. For ages we have lived and thrived while deeply connected to our environment. Peaceful forests, calming water bodies, and green spaces are where we feel most at home.
Today however, we spend our days living within walls, working on electronic devices, and using apps to connect with others. No wonder mental health issues and lifestyle ailments are steadily rising.
Nature makes us whole again. It’s where we belong. Step outdoors to discover highly effective ways to counter stress, anxiety, burnout, and depression and nurture a healthy mind. The natural world gives a boost to our immunity, vitality, and energy levels, while improving our mood, sleep, memory and focus. Nature connection prevents many lifestyle-related ailments and offers a powerful antidote to screen-addictions as well as loneliness.
Our modern age comes with its own set of challenges. Let’s see what nature can do for you and the people who matter to you.
A Calm, Healthy Life
So how do we tap nature to nourish our mind, improve our health, and deepen our relationships? How can we start sowing peace, health, and happiness all around us?
for Self, Others, and Nature
Countries all over are uncovering scientific proof about nature’s healing effects. Japan and South Korea have even created many nature connection programs for kids, teens, adults, and seniors. For our overworked minds and under-rested bodies, nature can yield surprising results.
Healing Forest: Best Ideas
Healing Forest has been created in the giving spirit of trees. Just like the forest, our site offers many hidden treasures. The more you explore, the more you discover. Here’s our collection of ideas carefully curated for you.
Wellbeing from Within: Over 150+ ideas to cultivate a healthy mind, and a calm life. Spread ripples of positive change all around you. Nature Calm >>
For Families & Friends: 7 Outdoor activities that open hearts and create beautiful relationships. Step outside to laugh, learn, grow together. Mindfulness in Nature >>
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Forest Healing
As we step into a complex and fragile future, now is the moment to restore our connection with nature. Not just for ourselves, but also for our families and the living Earth that we depend on.
Our aim is simple:
Helping people heal. Helping forests heal.
Healing forest site showcases the best forest walks, nature art, nature mindfulness, and wellbeing activities from across the globe. We also organize healing forest walks and train people in forest bathing the Japanese practice of healing in nature; healing with nature.
Other initiatives include: Publishing stories of resilience and wisdom from nature. Highlighting beautiful forests in your country that can serve as healing forests. Bringing attention to inspiring projects and people that work on forest healing.
Our greatest impact is through creating positive change in people’s lives with our Nature Play and Nature Calm programs.
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I wish I had one. For the last eighteen months or so, I have been unable to leave home, and am stuck in my room 95% of the time. When I watched your film, I really broke down as I miss nature with all my heart…
Do you have any ideas on what I could do to get that peaceful feeling again?
Dear Nan,
Thank you for reaching out. While there are no direct answers, here are a few pointers. This month we are creating a guest post on flower therapy which talks of the healing abilities of flowers. Also check out the Japanese art of Bonsai. It’s about creating a mini forest in your own home. In the end, the healing process is more about carrying nature in your heart and not just being in nature.
Wishing you great peace and calm.
I would love to learn more about this flower therapy. I will be teaching a class on flower illustration this summer. It might be helpful to know about flower therapy and how flowers in particular can help us feel calm. Please keep me posted!
Do you have a window in your room? Maybe someone could put a bird feeder outside your window so you could watch them eat.
Nan,
On YouTube, I have posted brief videos of my Healing Forest walks throughout Colorado.
While you are bedridden you can view them for uplift. Just search my name in YouTube: ‘ria fenty’.
Heal swiftly.
Nan.
I am saddened that you have to stay indoors for almost all of your day. One thing that came to me mind that may help is to ask someone to bring the elements of nature to you. For example a sound track of nature sounds with someone walking through a forest. You will hear the crunch of each surface as they walk. Also have someone bring you a small water fountain for a babbling brook sound. Then you can have some one bring you elements from a forest that you can touch and smell like smooth drift wood, a sharp evergreen branch, stones from water ways rough and harsh and also some things to smell from nature. This way your senses can experience it; your ears can hear it; you nose can smell it; and you hands can touch it. Ask someone you love to bring nature…. to you! Many blessings Kristi from Canada
Hello Nan,
I was so deeply grieved when I had to return to the city after living for a year in the forest, I never would even go out to a park. But just watching these films rekindles the forest energy in my body again so strongly! My heart rises up in the rushing joy and wonder of my walks through the woods each night. If the films stir that in you, perhaps could watch the films each day, and bathe in the eternal and blessed memory of those living energies reactivated in your body and heart. Love to you, Ann
When great stress has erupted in my life, I have instinctively turned to the woods and nature for solace and healing. Waiting for results of medical tests, mind awash with anxiety, it was February a couple of years ago. All the woods here covered in snow, the cold and winds too harsh to spend time outdoors, I found myself fleeing to the warmth and greenery of a local Conservatory. There, in the “tropical” room, surrounded by enormous palms and with the music of a small waterfall, my heart and mind were still and calm. I went every day for that tense week, staying for hours in the arms of Mother Nature. The tests came back OK. I love a small park near my home with nature trails. Amazingly underused, I often have it to myself. Solitude, nature, birds, a small wetland/swamp area and a pond as well as trails in the woods. This, to me, is what Heaven is.
‘I believe there comes a time in everyone’s life, sometimes on multiple occasions, when they experience the overwhelming urge to call out to God. I was always fascinated with hiking and the woods. That realization was the turning point in my life when I lost someone very close to me. I began facing my shadow, the dark parts of me and my shame. The older I get, the more cynical I become with myself. There’s a lot in life you just can’t change. It’s okay because it’s temporary. I was struggling with moving past a traumatic incident with my aunt that passed away and I found it difficult to overcome anxiety and depression, I’ve learned to accept myself for who I am. Whatever your anxiety or trauma is about, change your way of thought….get away from negative thoughts and start chasing adventures.
“Life is a journey.” The woods are definitely where I feel most at home.”