Wild Wonder Forest Bathing

Forest Bathing is a restorative and awe-inspiring practice of walking in nature. When we slow down to explore the natural world through all the senses, including the sixth sense, a world of wonders greets us.

Research shows that as trees shower us with invisible aerosols, we relax, our immune systems get a boost, and our cortisol levels, blood pressure, and heart rate all decrease.

I schedule Forest Bathing walks based upon season and weather. There are many special places in Southern Maine to choose from. If you have a special request, please contact me and add it in the comments. No dogs allowed unless by special arrangement.

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I provide 2-hour walks. Other durations or private walks can also be requested via email.

Cost:

• $30 per person for one walk (Children under 5 free.)
• $75 per person for a series of 3 walks
• Groups of 4 or more receive a copy of Jennifer’s award-winning children’s book, “The Inside of ME.”

“The walk brought me closer to what truly matters — breathing, connecting, and finding wonders all around.” — Fran L.

“I want to thank you. I’ve realized if I had taken more walks like these earlier in life, I’d have been a better husband and a better father.” — Michael L.

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Walking Out with Awe and Wonder

A nature, writing, and storytelling immersion

When the people lack a sense of awe, there will be trouble in the empire.— Lao Tzu

Imagine two characters—Awe and Wonder—appear at your doorstep. Perhaps the characters appear as though from Brothers Grimm fairy tales, or as shape-shifters, at once a walking stick and then a raven. Whatever your imagination conjures, one thing is clear: Awe and Wonder have arrived to be your teachers and guides for an immersive outdoor experience with the rest of the natural world where you surrender your rational mind and invite imagination, creativity, and the nature of storytelling back in.

The workshop is 2 – 3 hours depending on numbers and options. It draws from the teachings of mythmakers Dr. Martin Shaw, and Dr. Sharon Blackie, among others. It is designed to reduce stress and restore enchantment. There is an optional Create Me a Story component, fun for all ages, where from three characters, two places, and three objects, a group engages in co-crafting a story.

To live an enchanted life is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world

Sharon Blackieu

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Writing from the ReWilded Side:

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Aligning with the rhythm of Earth brings us what Rudolf Steiner calls, “soul-quiet,” and “spirit-calm.” It is from this inner peacefulness we can gain perspective and new insights worthy of putting pen to paper for. 

In this experience of six sessions, part field trip into natural places and part writing and storytelling, we’ll draw upon some of the world’s best mythmakers, like Dr. Martin Shaw and Dr. Sharon Blackie, to immerse ourselves in our edgy imaginations, to surrender our rational minds for experiences in nature’s atmospheres, and to explore our relationship with the subtle realms in ourselves as nature. What’s the more that can arise in you when you deepen your relationship with the natural world?

“I thought I’d explored my writing edges, and then I attended one of Jen’s immersive, creative writing workshops. Wow!” —  Julia O.

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Cultivating Buoyancy for Ourselves u0026amp; Earth:

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“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.” – John Robert Lewis

Everywhere you look, you see it coming. We are in an unfolding ecological and planetary crisis. And yet, have you observed in yourself or others the tendency toward overwhelm, shutting down or dissociation at precisely the time when creative collaborations are vital? Recognizing this unique moment – the most transformative era in human history and the stakes for life on earth – I host a workshop that provides tools to give you buoyancy amid looming uncertainty and great loss.

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This trauma-informed and nature-based program (approximately 6 hours, configured to your needs and available both in person and via zoom) helps participants answer questions such as:

1. What skills are needed to keep my internal equilibrium when I am effected by what’s happening in the outer world or by someone whose beliefs are vastly different from our own?  

2. What radically different tools and strategies will help me (i.e. give me “sea legs”) to dwell in the unknown amid what appears to be rolling chaos?

3. What personal habits/choices must I change in order to apply nature’s laws of reuse, repurpose, recycle? (Nothing in nature is “new.”) 

“Jen, you did a beautiful job of incorporating movement, reflection, conversation, silence, and videos into the sessions. All zooms that are two hours should have movement and time off screen! What a rich experience.”  — Rev. Laura M.

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