You’re in the woods. You take a deep breath and just listen. No headphones, no conversation; you’re alone with the wind rustling the trees, the smell of the oak and — oh yeah — a guide. In the past ...

Bluebells bloom across a small forest in Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom. Studies show that forest bathing in woodlands such as this can boost physical and mental health. Photograph by Alex ...

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Older adults over 60 can go on a “forest bathing” hike with a Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks volunteer naturalist at 10 a.m. April 24 on the Shanahan Ridge Trail, which is accessed from Lehigh ...

And to think, most Arkansans were well in the groove before it was popular. Like being country, when country wasn't cool. The Washington Post discovered a professor at Harvard who turned a writer on ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...