Forest Bathing: Discovering and Deepening Relationship with the Outdoors

Date: August 31st, 2025

Time: 10 am to 12:30 pm, 2 CEs, 2.5 hours total

Sign up early for early bird pricing and spots are limited to 15 participants.

Location: "Rip" Van Winkle Open Space, 1072 Congress Ave., Pacific Grove (across from Forest Grove Elementary School) https://maps.app.goo.gl/WuHN77NaUHPkvtVeA

In this salon participants will learn of Forest Bathing. Spending slow-moving, contemplative time in the forest can feel, in many ways, like coming home to a peaceful place inside the heart. The practice of shinrin-yoku ("Forest Bathing") is a form of guided walking meditation, an "immersion" into the home-space of trees, plants, birds, and critters, not to mention the ceiling of the mycelium living room. Being in community in this community can be very good medicine ... especially these days.

A 6-minute video in which Marianne talks about Forest Bathing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5w0kXrVOyI&t=1s

What to Bring:

To sit-on, please bring a cushion or towel or a light-weight chair that you can carry for a short, level-ground walk.

Bring water and, if you’d like, a light snack.

Wear layers; the temperature is quite variable.

Presenter Bio:

Marianne is a licensed marriage & family therapist and a co-founding teacher of Monterey Bay Meditaion Studio. She is dedicated to cultivating eco-systemic consciousnes and living in-cahoots with Earth, Cosmos, and Life in all forms. Her sense of belonging and aliveness is surced and deepend through walks, sits, and communion with the Pacific Ocean, forest, and night skies, along with envisioning conversation with beloved friends.

Marianne's evidently insatiable love of learning has led her into a certification in Climate Psychology as well as becoming a nature & forest therapy guide, eco-therapist, California naturalist, CA Climate Steward, Authentic Relating facilitator, and Warm Data Host.