What is shinrin yoku?
Shinrin-yoku, forest bathing or forest therapy comes from Japan, where spending time in nature is seen as a simple way to support wellbeing and inner balance. It’s a gentle, mindful practice of slowing down and immersing yourself in the forest, helping you feel calm, grounded, and restored. Research now confirms what many have always felt, time in nature is good for both body and mind.
Why Forest Bathing?
Modern urban life keeps us indoors, on screens, and under constant pressure, leaving many of us stressed, fatigued, and disconnected.
Forest Therapy, also known as forest bathing or nature connection, offers a natural way to restore balance. Time spent in nature helps reduce stress, refresh the mind, and support overall wellbeing.
Through guided Forest Therapy experiences, Nature Being gently helps rekindle our connection with nature—an essential part of feeling grounded, healthy, and alive.
Health Benefits
Forest Therapy offers powerful mental and physical health benefits. Scientific research has demonstrated, that a single Forest Therapy walk can immediately improve your body’s stress and wellness markers. These changes have a direct and positive impact on your overall well-being, helping you to fee balanced and revitalised.
Positive Effects on Health
Positive mood improvement in happiness levels, reduction in anxiety and depression levels
Improved cognition, attention and focus
Reduction in heart rate and blood pressure
Reduced cortisol levels indicating a reduction in our
stress hormone levels
improved immune function
Exposure to phytoncides which possess anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-microbial and anti-viral properties
Why choose a Forest Therapy Guide?
A guide gently helps you slow down, shifting your attention from the busy chatter of the mind to the soothing rhythms of nature and your own body. With this support, you can relax, breathe, and just be in the present moment.
What to expect on a forest bathing walk?
The walk begins quietly and slowly, on a trail designed to align our biorhythms with the natural world. Along the way, you’ll be invited to engage in a blend of creative, physical, and sensory activities, all inspired by the landscape around us. These activities encourage us to be open, curious, and fully present
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Guided Forest Therapy offers a sense of freedom and safety, making it easier to relax and let go. As your Guide, I handle all the details so you can simply be present to savour the experience. It is a chance to truely disconnect from the rush of everyday life and reconnect with yourself and the world around you
Forest bathing demonstrates nature’s ability to heal and rejuvenate us. It can lift our mood, ease our stresses, restore attention and vitality. By immersing ourselves in nature we nurture our mind, body, and spirit, returning to our lives with renewed energy and a deep sense of peace.
Your Guide
Hi, I’m Alex, a Certified Forest Therapy Guide offering Forest Bathing and nature connection walks in Sydney, in the beautiful Royal National Park on Dharawal Country.
Through Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing), I guide people to slow down, use their senses, and reconnect with nature. These walks aren’t about distance, they’re about being present and soaking in the calm of the forest.
Nature has a way of bringing us back to ourselves. It grounds me, clears my mind, and reminds me what really matters, and I love helping others experience that too.
With Nature Being, I create warm, welcoming forest therapy experiences that help you relax, restore your energy, and reconnect with both nature and yourself.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Art, Sociology
International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance (INFTA) Certified Forest Therapy Guide
Nature Therapy Guide, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Cert III Tourism Guide
Licensed ECOPass Tour Operator
Certified Qigong Instructor
Certified Mental Health First Aid
Certified First Aid
Infection Control Training
