Forest Walk Begins at Our Spa

Move in small groups and in silence. The idea is to talk less and listen more. To experience nature around us with awareness. Over the course of this walk, you undertake short tasks (Forest meditations) that deepen your connection with the forests. These tasks are mere guidelines to develop your attention and awareness.

Typically the Healing forest walk sessions last for 2 hours. Any forest, lake or natural water body, city park, mountain trail can turn into a healing forest walk.

Before you start your nature walk, take 3-5 minutes to bring attention to different parts of your body. Relax the tension and stress you may be carrying by mentally scanning your body from the feet to the crown of the head.

You can walk slowly for 15 minutes and spend the next 20 minutes by selecting an exercise that focuses on one of your senses – sight, sound, smell, taste, touch.

Here’s an introductory collection of sense based forest meditations to choose from.

Sound: Listen to the sounds of the forest. Count how many different sounds you can hear. Can you hear the stillness that holds all the sounds?

Sight: Search for a spot where you can see an entire tree. Slowly trace the outline of a tree with your eyes, starting from one edge at the base of the trunk. Move your gaze up, covering all the minute details that define the boundary of the tree. If you find your mind wandering or racing, bring it back to the outline of the tree and complete your tree tracing slowly.

Smell: Take deep breaths to soak in the scents of the forest. Every object in nature has a unique smell. Pick up interesting objects and smell them to create a memory of the moment.

Touch: Sit on a rock with your feet firmly on the ground. Hold a piece of the forest in your palms – A pebble / a leaf / a blade of grass. Close your eyes and pay attention to the touch. Connect with the forest. Connect with the earth.

Taste: Carry fruit or some tea with you. Eat the fruit slowly. As slow as you can. Imagine the sunlight that feeds the plant becomes the fruit that becomes a part of you. Observe how everything in nature in interlinked with each other.