Wasatch Forest Therapy

Wasatch Forest Therapy is about reconnecting to nature & oneself through the practice of shinrin-yoku ("forest bathing") or Forest Therapy.

We guide you through the process of slowing down, unplugging, and healing through the medicine of the forest.

05/08/2026

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

05/05/2026

Wander and find a tree that feels open to engage with you.

Sit or stand as close to the tree as you feel comfortable doing. You may want to put both of your palms on its trunk and close your eyes.

As you slowly inhale through your nose, imagine that this tree is offering you our oxygen.

As you gently exhale through your mouth, visualize the tree absorbing your breath with gratitude.

Breathe consciously with the tree in this way for five minutes.

Notice how your body and mind feel.

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04/27/2026

Held down by the rain, but the wind is on its way. Wishes don’t expire 🌼

04/26/2026

When I’m teaching forest school, I have loved to pull out my Invitation to Forest Bathing deck during class. It’s interesting to see which images each child is most drawn to. Since the deck is geared more toward adults, but can be adapted for use with kids and families, I tap into my creativity to simplify the prompts for them!

We usually take turns pulling a card and then we all do the prompt together.

Last week one of my sweet students picked the Inner Child card with hummingbird on the front. The invitation is to meditate on your inner child and explore nature as if you were a child again.

Since that’s a little hard for a 5 year old to conceptualize, I shifted it in the moment to:

Close your eyes, take a deep breath. When you open your eyes, imagine you are a two year old toddler and explore this trail!

The kids absolutely LOVED it. They laughed hysterically at the idea of being a toddler and then they bounced around, goo goo and gah gah-ing and rolling in giggles. I did too!