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Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the sky – Khalil Gibran

Forest Bathing aka Shinrin yoku

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What is Forest Bathing?
Paul Simmons forest bathing guide
Your guide – In Cornwall
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Where, when and why
We.Are.Nature.
It’s 2026 and the new dates of day sessions and forthcoming 2 day Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku) Accredited Practitioner Introductory Course check here.
Life gets in the way of our connection with what makes us human. Without our ‘dose’ of Nature we become alienated, ill, questioning our existence and even uncaring for our immediate environment and what being content and happy means.
I am part of a social prescribing network here in Cornwall. The Nature and Health Practice Network.
I’ve been lucky enough in life to be able to spend my time doing what I love. Walking and music, immersed in Nature.
My own philosophy has led me to this page. Clinically proven the connection to Nature is vital for us individually and collectively. So it is time to give back. Acting as the bridge between you and the incredible benefits of spending time in Nature and for those who want to experience Forest Bathing or want to ‘teach’ it to others, sessions are on a ‘pay what you can’ basis.

Forest Bathing in Cornwall

I am here to demistify the obvious. That a connection to Nature is in our DNA and has been for millions of years.

Only since we have become a race that lives mostly in cities and have a dominant paradigm that sees Nature as something to be utilised, conquered and manipulated have we become apart from, as opposed to a part of Nature.

We need something like Shinrin-yoku to help with our real relationship with the more-than-human world which includes landscape, weather, insects, animals, plants and soil.

What I am offering - Nature awe

I have spent most of my time at ‘work’ telling stories, interpreting what I see, when taking guest walking.

I am presently putting this knowledge together, researching for a PhD on footpaths and our joy of walking. I continue to take people on walking holidays interpreting our relationship with landscape and the more-than-human world.

With Shinrin-yoku I am taking a further step into the experiential, reflexive world of how Nature can be beneficial to our physical and mental health. Believe me I wouldn’t have touched this if it hadn’t been clinically proven and peer reviewed as to its efficacy as a therapy to help one and all.

I am in awe of Nature and our humble place within it. I let it do what it does best. There’s no uniqueness in what I do. I am but the conduit to help you immerse in Nature with all your senses. A guide once again, as I am with my established 23 years of taking people walking.

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