Healing Trees
A Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2021
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-64722-418-9 (ISBN)
Description
Take a walk in the woods to find yourself. This book is intended as an easy approach to forest bathing, a concept that is now making its way into health and wellness practices. Part spiritual guide and part practitioner's handbook, this accessible, practical, positivity-rich book is designed to be taken on every walk to encourage mindfulness, contentedness, and presence in the moment. Written in a beautiful, encouraging style by a highly qualified and mediagenic author, the book also contains amazing hand-drawn illustrations of forest scenes.
Reviews / Votes
Healing Trees" reminds us how separated from the world, from nature, from the trees, we've become. His chapter on "Bodylessness" is especially good, as he says that the body is not a machine but "the experience of ourselves in nature, but because we do not identify with it, we have become numb and bodyless." - Washington Post * Washington Post *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Insight Editions
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64722-418-9 (9781647224189)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
01/2023
Mandala Publishing
€4.94
Available for download
Person
Ben Page is a Forest Therapy Guide, global advocate for the practice and the author of the soon to be released Healing Trees: A Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing. He is the founder of Shinrin Yoku LA and Integral Forest Bathing and has been guiding Forest Therapy walks since 2015. During his tenure as a trainer and mentor of guides, Ben has trained hundreds of guides around the world. From 2017-2020, he also served as the Director of Training for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, specializing in curriculum and pedagogical design. Since his practice began, Ben has been featured in such publications as Women's Health, USA TODAY, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and WebMD. Ben is also a co-founder of The Open School, Southern California's only free democratic school. He holds a B.A. in religious studies from Carleton College and an M.A. in human development and social change from Pacific Oaks College.
City/state of residence: Los Angeles, CA
City/state of residence: Los Angeles, CA