{"id":617,"date":"2022-03-18T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylvantia.com\/shinrin-yoku\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:51:35","slug":"shinrin-yoku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sylvantia.com\/en\/shinrin-yoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinrin Yoku"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Also called forest bathing or forest therapy.<\/p>

There really isn’t a universal definition of Forest Therapy or Shinrin Yoku<\/em>. Nor is there a standard practice. Each practitioner therefore fills the concept according to his training, his experience or his own feelings.<\/p>

I am personally certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, an American association that has been one of the pioneers in this field. Its founder, Amos Clifford, was inspired by mindfulness, Zen meditation, Japanese Shinrin Yoku<\/em> and his experience as a psychotherapist and wilderness guide when he developed the practice in forest therapy that characterizes the ANFT today.

Forest bathing, Shinrin Yoku<\/em> as the Japanese understand it, is the art of immersing yourself in the forest to promote general well-being. It is accessible to everyone who walks among the trees for a while.

Forest therapy goes a step further in the sense that we focus more consciously and actively on those activities that make us feel goods. This is where a guide can be relevant, because he gives a framework to the practice by offering a series of invitations meant to gently encourage you to take it one step further. A guide also creates a secure environment that allows you to better let go and therefore fully enjoy the benefits of the session.

More concretely, forest therapy is a gentle walk with a series of invitations that help us slow down, get into the rhythm of the forest, come into our senses and silence the mind.<\/p>

To sum up, we could say that Shinrin Yoku is about immersing ourselves in the forest through our senses and this sensory experience brings us a lot of benefits, both physically and psychologically.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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