“Forest bathing is about walking slowly and quietly and noticing what’s around you – you might only cover 1.5 kilometres in three hours,” Daniel D’Appio says. | Kimberly Gillan
Whether it’s a remote rainforest wander or some laps of the botanical gardens, many of us turn to nature for a soothing balm to our hectic urban lives.
“You just notice that leaf there, this tree over here, that bug crawling on the tree. It’s just [about] being in nature and watching stuff and seeing what happens. There’s something really different about slowing the body down as opposed to speeding it up.” “[Along a guided walk] you might do some gentle tai chi or stop to discuss different colours of leaves. And we’ll have a part we call the ‘sit spot’ where you just sit in silence and just ‘be’.”
“Don’t meditate or play music or re-attune your chakras – just sit there, be in nature and see what happens.”Try not to put too much pressure on a nature walk to ease all of your stresses.