Description
The Healing Nature Trail; Forest Bathing for Recovery and Awakening
by Tamarack Song
In select nooks of Nature, there are trails specially designed to maximize the healing properties of flowing water, elder trees, and wildflower essences. Chipmunks scamper about, a fox gingerly weaves her way across the meadow, and a sprightly warbler alights on a branch in front of you. In such company, merely walking barefoot, breathing the air, and drinking in the setting become healing exercises. For an intimate look at a Healing Nature Trail, google “Healing Nature Center video tour” and go to www.healingnaturecenter.org . This book has in-depth sections on the healing power of Nature, a guided tour of a Healing Nature Trail, a blueprint for establishing a Trail, and a description of the Trail Guide training program.
“Tamarack Song’s vision for healing nature trails is an important and timely addition to the literature on forest therapy. Besides presenting a solid overview of recent science on the healing power of nature, he walks the reader along a path with surprising twists and turns, all in support of joyful connection to the earth and its many beings.”
– M. Amos Clifford, Founder of Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs and Sky Creek Dharma Center; author of Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature.
