Shinrin-Yoku (Forest bathing) – June

Natural Mindfulness, Nature Connection
 
Experience the calming and energising effects of spending time in a woodland. This two-hour session will enable you to deepen your engagement with nature. We will walk, gently stretch, explore mindfulness practices and breath techniques as well as having fun!
 
Forest Bathing comes from the Japanese Shinrin-Yoku which translate as ‘taking in the forest through our senses’. It is not a passive activity but an active engagement connecting or re-connecting with nature.
 
Katy is a ‘Woodlander’, and a qualified yoga teacher with 20 years experience, Shinrin-Yoku practitioner and Natural Mindfulness guide. Katy owns and manages a small woodland in the Taw valley with her husband and is director of Courage Copse Creatives CIC who use the Arts, in the broadest sense, to connect people to place and nature and their own creativity and well-being.

Please bring with you:

• Your booking reference number
• Drink and light snacks if required. Tea and coffee will be available at the end of the session.
• The workshop will take place outside in the woodland. Please wear clothes and footwear suitable for the weather on the day. We suggest wearing layers so that you are prepared for ALL weather conditions - and footwear appropriate for walking in the woodland.

Tea and coffee included.

Tutor: Katy Lee / Copse Creatives

Please be aware that for parts of the session, we will be in public areas of the garden / woodland, so there may be some background noise such as talking, children playing and potentially some gardening nearby.

Katy will be running other Shinrin-yoku sessions at RHS Rosemoor on Monday 14 July, 11 August and 8 September 2025.