At 8 a.m. on a misty Friday morning at Ragle Ranch Regional Park in Sebastopol, Forest Therapy Practitioner Pamela Wirth quietly stood under oak trees as birds chirped in the distance. “Feel the Earth ...

Nature and forest therapy — sometimes called forest bathing — is not a fad. Far from it. Scientists are proving and millions of people around the world are discovering mental and physical benefits ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forest therapy, a mix of nature immersion and circle sharing, may calm participants and alleviate stress. (Yuri Hasegawa / For The ...

Beginnings: Phyllis Look’s strong connection with trees and forests began in childhood. “When I was in elementary school, Mānoa Elementary, I had a friend who lived on the woodland side and her front ...

Chico, California, resident Jessie Raeder dug her fingers into the dirt. Before she arrived, she’d been in a “state of clenching,” she said, but this forest therapy walk in the Butte Creek Ecological ...

It was a particularly chaotic time. As the war in the Middle East raged on, sparking relentless and horrific news headlines, a family member unexpectedly landed in the hospital here in California.