FOBA 100 - Forest Bathing
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Course Description
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Friday, June 7, 2024 from 4:00pm-6:30pm.
The class will meet at the Pinnacle Park Trail Head Parking Area in Sylva at 3:45 PM
Cost: $35.00 per person
Close your eyes and imagine the feeling of a slight breeze gently move across your face. Listen to the melody of “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” and the soft gurgling of a mountain creek. Take in the smells of trees, earth, and air. Feel your heart rate slow. Feel your mind ease into a sense of calm and wonder. Feel your body relax into the natural world around you. This is forest bathing.
Guided Forest Bathing is an opportunity to connect with nature and experience one of our local trails in a new way. During this 2.5 hour experience, we will balance leisurely strolling, observation and reflection, and solo time. Our certified guide, Debby Singleton, will offer invitations for safely engaging with nature through our sense of sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. This is an opportunity to slow down, unplug, destress, and practice presence in the moment. Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, which translates to “bathing in the forest”, this immersion is an opportunity to experience the restorative benefits of the forest around us. At the end of our immersion, we will share our experiences with a peaceful tea ceremony.
Our guided experience will take place at Pinnacle Park in Sylva, NC. Pinnacle Park is the only certified forest therapy trail in North Carolina, and one of 20 in the world. (https://www.anft.earth/certified-trails) The lower trail system of Pinnacle Park provides a full sensory experience as we leisurely walk through a forest of evergreens and hardwoods; beside bubbling creeks; alongside towering rhododendron and mountain laurel; and forest floor rich with ferns, wildflowers, and fungi.
By the end of this experience, participants will have…
1. a deeper understanding and awareness of the practice of Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku), its history, and health benefits.
2. completed a 2.5 hour sensory experience that assisted them in slowing down, unplugging, destressing, and be present in the moment.
3. met other participants and shared new or renewed connections.
4. walked and explored the lower trails of Pinnacle Park.
5. gained new knowledge and appreciation for a local natural space.
2. completed a 2.5 hour sensory experience that assisted them in slowing down, unplugging, destressing, and be present in the moment.
3. met other participants and shared new or renewed connections.
4. walked and explored the lower trails of Pinnacle Park.
5. gained new knowledge and appreciation for a local natural space.
Participants should bring:
- Water bottle, any personal medications needed
- Towel, mat, or light chair to sit more comfortably on the forest floor. (Your guide will have some extras to borrow).
- Hiking shoes or closed toed shoes with a grippy sole
- Clothing that can be layered to accommodate personal needs with changing weather
- Hat, gloves, ball cap, rain jacket, umbrella (as needed for personal comfort)
- Bug/Tick repellant if desired
- Towel, mat, or light chair to sit more comfortably on the forest floor. (Your guide will have some extras to borrow).
- Hiking shoes or closed toed shoes with a grippy sole
- Clothing that can be layered to accommodate personal needs with changing weather
- Hat, gloves, ball cap, rain jacket, umbrella (as needed for personal comfort)
- Bug/Tick repellant if desired
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