Among the Trees: Forest Bathing Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe forest bathing, the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku. Writers describe going in the first time — sceptically, on a prescription, on a corporate away day, after a diagnosis, during a divorce — and the awkwardness of being told to walk slowly and notice things. There is learning to be slow: the phone left behind, the two hours that feel unbearable and then do not, the guides who added something and the ones who made it embarrassing. Then the weekly habit, and the honest reporting of what changed — sleep, rumination, blood pressure, the stress that lifted for an afternoon or for longer. Writers describe unlikely woods: urban parks, hospital gardens, a strip of trees by a motorway. Later chapters cover clinical and green-prescription programmes, researchers' perspectives, and the people for whom the woods offered nothing at all.

Who it's for

For anyone curious about nature-based wellbeing, people offered a green prescription, and readers who want the sceptics' accounts alongside the converts'.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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