How To Create Peace, Purpose, Health
Healing Forest takes you on a journey of creating remarkable changes in life through nature. Learn how to face the unique challenges of our times by tapping into nature’s healing powers. Discover priceless ways that cultivate a calm mind, a healthy body, and nourishing relationships.
On this website you will find the best ideas and activities from across the planet.
Fascinating nature connection activities that combine outdoor mindfulness with art and play in unusual ways.
Collect many inspiring articles, stories, films, and insights that will help you and your loved ones grow.
Slow Down. Find Yourself.
For thousands of years our ancestors lived and thrived in the wilderness. Endless grasslands, dense forests and vast stretches of green were an integral part of a place we called home.
But in today’s world, the green spaces are replaced by urban structures, crowded places and polluted environments. This rapid change puts an unwanted pressure on our body and mind. As a result we have seen that anxiety, stress, depression, burnout, chronic illnesses and other ailments are on the rise. Also as a society, there is an increase in anger, addictions, intolerance, apathy, and loneliness. Living in a hyper-connected era, aren’t we getting disconnected from what is truly important?
Let’s see what nature can do for you. Countries around the world are uncovering scientific proof about nature’s healing effects. Japan and South Korea have even created many healing forests where they practice forest bathing or healing forest walks. For our overloaded minds and overworked bodies, nature can yield surprising results.
Watch our 5 min. film to know how.
Ideas That Transform You
So how do we transform our connection with nature in a way that transforms us? How can we start sowing the seeds of peace, kindness, and health in the world around us?
Overcome obstacles. Uplift life.
Every month we share useful articles that prepare you for life’s hurdles – big and small. Invaluable ideas from nature that will uplift your mind, body and relationships. Just like the forest, our site offers many hidden treasures. The more you explore, the more you discover.
Healing Forest has been created in the giving spirit of trees.
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Calm for your Mind, Body, Life
As humans, we have evolved in nature. It’s what makes us feel complete. Multiple research on nature’s healing powers have shown a wide variety of benefits for our physical, mental, and social health. It provides an easy and effective way for avoiding stress, anxiety, burnout, depression, as well as reducing their ill-effects. Connecting with nature boosts our body’s immunity, energy levels, and healing ability. It can improve our mood, sleep, memory as well as focus. Nature activities also have a healthy influence on our emotional well-being and relationship skills.
Try our Nature Calm course with over 150+ ideas for your mind and body, heart and soul. Learn how to tap into the healing powers of nature and create ripples of positive change across your life.
The Healing Forest
Our aim is simple: Helping people heal. Helping forests heal.
This project is run entirely by volunteers. We’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below.
Our activities include: showcasing the best forest walks, forest meditations, nature art, from around the world. Organising healing forest walks and training people in forest bathing – the practice of healing in nature, with nature. 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 give back to nature. Creating change leaders for the future, through our Nature Play and Nature Calm programs.
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Thank you for the extraordinary way you capture and convey the energy of the forest, and for your obvious devotion to our beautiful Earth and its forests. Your videos bring back the energy of the forest, they breathe it back to life in my heart, reigniting my connection and love of the woods. I moved to the wooded foothills of the Sierra Nevada for a year after a 3 year nervous breakdown, where I walked the forest paths every night until 2, 3, or even 5 a.m. I would consciously open every cell in my body to receive the energy of the Earth, the trees, the sky, and the moon. I let my heart run free and wild with delight and the constant revelation of the divine pouring through the natural world around me. Here is a poem I wrote,
Morning Light
The morning spreads its sweet gold
over a broadleaf sea of forest oak,
Spinning white, angel-haired wonder through the pine.
Like the trees, I will spread my leaves
in silent welcome,
Opening every cell
to receive the warm, quiet rush
of the new day.
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Hello again, Nitin,
I wonder if you or anyone on your team might be interested in reviewing my memoir when it is released in October? It maps my inner journey to the Sierra Nevada forest, where I would walk the woods at night, often until dawn. Here is a brief description, if that helps: Entering the River Naked: Field Notes from the Feminine Wild is a memoir mapping the wilds of one woman’s heart in relentless pursuit of the sacred. Through evocative dreams, poetry and journal pieces, author Ann Shannon faces down her core angst, failing marriage, and misery in her career on her way to the Sierra Nevada forest. There, she begins nightly sojourns through the woods that often last until dawn. As Shannon lays claim to a majestic and tender new life that mirrors the ecstatic beauty of the Earth and sky around her, she offers exhilarating glimpses into the power of nature and the unbridled feminine to inform and to heal. (I don’t mean to presume anything…I just want to check. It is a intimate personal story celebrating the beauty and healing available us in the forest.) Thank you, Ann
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Beautiful, i could picture it in my mind.
Soon i will be moving to a woodland, i long to rest in Gods creation.
Thank you for the beautiful poem.
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So calming. The video materials touch my core and their soothing effect is just great.
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