Forest Bathing for
Healthcare Wokers

Honor the Winter Solstice with a peaceful forest bathing experience designed to offer rest, renewal, and connection in nature.

​

What to Expect

 

Join us at the beautiful Bohemia Preserve, in West Sonoma County, for a restorative Winter Solstice forest bathing experience created especially for healthcare workers.

​

The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, a natural threshold and an invitation to slow down, turn inward, and honor the wisdom of rest. As the season reaches its darkest point and begins its gradual return toward the light, we’ll gather on the land to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world.

​

For those who spend so much of their lives caring for others, this experience offers dedicated time to receive: to step away from the pace and demands of daily life and simply be held by the landscape.

​

Forest bathing, or Shinrin Yoku, is a gentle, sensory-based mindfulness practice that supports stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being. It is not a hike, and there is no destination or fitness goal. Instead, you’ll be invited to move slowly, awaken your senses, follow your curiosity, and deepen your connection with the more-than-human world.

​

Guided by Jenny Harrow-Keeler, Certified Nature & Forest Therapy Guide and Founder of EcoWisdom Wellness, our time together will unfold through a series of gentle invitations, including:

​

• A slow, intentional opening to arrive in the landscape, settle into the pace of the forest, and leave the speed of the day behind

• Guided sensory invitations that bring awareness to what you can hear, smell, touch, see, and feel in this particular moment and place

• Unhurried pauses to rest, observe, wander, or simply be with whatever draws your attention

• Opportunities for individual exploration, allowing you to follow your own curiosity without agenda or destination

• Moments of reflection and sharing, with an invitation to notice what may be ready to rest, release, or shift as we move through this seasonal threshold

• A closing tea ceremony to gather together, warm ourselves, and honor the quiet return of the light

​

Bohemia Preserve offers a beautiful setting for this seasonal practice, a living landscape where we can experience winter not as something to rush through, but as an essential part of nature’s cycle of rest, renewal, and regeneration.

​

No prior experience with forest bathing or mindfulness is necessary. Come as you are, with warm layers, curiosity, and a willingness to slow down.

​

This experience is offered free of charge to healthcare workers through the generous support of Mindful of Nature. The session will also be conducted as part of a research project exploring the impacts of nature-based mindfulness practices on participants.​