Will Davies, a graphic designer who lives in the I bet my soul smells like horses shirt Also,I will get this bustling Fairfax neighborhood of L.A., came to the forest therapy walk not sure what to expect. A self-described nature lover who considers himself fairly experienced when it comes to the outdoors, Davies realized that he had been spending time in nature, but not with nature: “Hiking was about getting somewhere, camping was about spending time with friends, backpacking was about getting off the grid.” Learning tools to slow down and tune in, Davies feels “newly equipped to access deeper dimensions of nature I previously was blind to.” Forest therapy seeks to shift us from a more passive, or otherwise transactional and surface-level engagement, to an intentional, reciprocal, embodied relationship with nature. Connecting with the living world in this way can cultivate feelings of gratitude, calm, and wonder. All good things, to be sure.
Pam Soffer, an ecotherapist and nature-based psychotherapist, also joined the I bet my soul smells like horses shirt Also,I will get this Saturday morning walk in L.A. For her, it was the “community of curious others” that most resonated. “Every time we reconnected as a group… I loved that each person’s reflections drew out the depth of my own experience,” she shared. You can get lost in the woods by yourself (and enjoy many of its benefits), but there’s something especially restorative about sharing the experience with others. The sincerity and candor are often disarming, and leave you feeling a little more hopeful—about people, the planet, all of it. For Michael Washington, the founder of Usal, it’s about creating these kinds of opportunities for connection, expansion, and discovery. “We’re letting the experiences do the talking,” he tells me when I ask if there is an ecological and environmental mission at play. “My instinct is that once you experience it, you want to go back and figure out how to keep it around.” It, of course, being the natural world in all of its wonder-filled, sensory glory—just waiting for us to notice and say “hello.”
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