Forest Bathing Forest bathing is not what you might think of right away. It comes from the Japanese term Shinrin-yoku, which means “taking in the forest atmosphere” or “forest bathing.” Since the 1980s, this practice has become a keystone of preventive care and healing in Japanese medicine. Basically, forest bathing is not literally taking a bath in the forest, but in many ways it is. It is based around a slow, mindful walk in a forest environment. In the ways that meditation