Welcome to Forest Bathing RI!
A collective for forest therapy guides based in the Ocean State.
We are certified guides trained with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, offering public and private programs in Rhode Island, south coast MA and southeastern Connecticut. Join us to unplug and tune in to the woodlands, parks, and shorelines of our region.
Known as Shinrin-Yoku in Japan Forest Bathing is a health and wellness practice first developed in Japan in 1982 as an antidote to stress-related disease and as a conservation strategy to protect the forests of that island nation. This practice was adapted for our North American sensibility by Amos Clifford, who founded the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs in 2012. Forest Therapy / Forest Bathing programs invite you to use your senses to reconnect and rejuvinate.
Land Acknowledgment
We are grateful to the many indigenous peoples who have been the traditional stewards of this land and continue to steward it today. We acknowledge that the programs we hold take place on the ancesteral lands and waters of the Mashpee, Narragansett, Pequot, Niantic, Nipmuc, and Wampanoag peoples. We also acknowledge these lands were secured by settlers/colonialists by profoundly dishonorable means.
Please read more here by Loren Spears, the executive director of the Tomaquag Museum and citizen of the Narragansett Tribe.
