Forest Bathing York
Promoting Wellness and Mindfulness in the Outdoors Through Forest Therapy, Art and Nature Connection. We Provide Shinrin-Yoku or "Forest Bathing" in the Greater New York City area and beyond. We Consult on Corporate Wellness, Art Collecting and Creating Healing Internal Environments for Better Health.
Additionally we offer certification and coaching in Forest Therapy and Nature Mindfulness. Urban Edge Forest Therapy is Manhattan's first forest therapy provider with a guide certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. We offer public and private guided forest therapy walks.
Do you want to try forest bathing in NY? Find the best parks, arboretums, tours to practice Shinrin Yoku in this heavily wooded state. Eventbrite - Summer on the Hudson presents Summer on the Hudson: Forest Bathing - Friday, January 23, 2026 at River Run Playground, New York, NY. Find event and ticket information.
Along the tranquil banks of the York Land Trust Smelt Brook Marsh Preserve, immerse yourself in a guided Forest Bathing & Tea Ceremony experience inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku. Through gentle, sensory invitations, we'll slow down and connect with the land, noticing the quiet beauty of late Summer in Maine. Following our gentle 1/2-1 mile walk, we'll gather for a.
Frog Songs and Vernal Pools: Guided Forest Bathing Soak up the spring air and awaken with nature as we slowly walk the coastal woods and vernal pool habitats at Fuller Forest Preserve. Session includes gentle mindful movement, a series of guided sensory invitations, slow gentle walking over 1/2 mile to a mile total and ends with a tea gathering. Forest bathing gently introduces deeper levels of engagement, cultivating mindful awareness through guided meditation, sensory exploration, and attention to small discoveries: the many colors of green, the texture of a tree's bark, a scent in the air, a mushroom sprouting in the soil.
The experience draws on all five senses. Forest bathing, like 'unplugged cabins' and phone-free days, is part of the new wave rejecting being chronically online and embracing natural, low. Shinrin-yoku Example of practicing shinrin-yoku Shinrin-yoku (Japanese: 森林浴, 森林 (shinrin, "forest") + 浴 (yoku, "bath, bathing.
[1] ")), also known as forest bathing, is a practice or process of therapeutic relaxation where one spends time in a forest or natural atmosphere, focusing on sensory engagement to connect with nature. Forest Bathing is an outdoor guided mindfulness group practice with proven health benefits. The session offers a slow guided walk through natural forest settings, several 10-15 minute guided sensory invitations done individually, and then a final tea gathering at the end.