Indra Jackson - Mindset Coach & Forest Bathing Guide

🍂Walking amongst the vibrant colours of autumn leaves can help the mind recharge, enhance creative thinking - and can be deeply calming and enjoyable. 🍁

☀️MENTAL CLARITY & RESTORATION: 🍂🍂🍂
The radiant colors of autumn create a visually stimulating environment that can help the mind recharge. According to the Attention Restoration Theory, natural environments like autumn forests help restore focus and cognitive function by allowing the brain to recover from mental fatigue. 🍂🍂🍂

⭐️CREATIVE BOOST: 🍁🍁🍁
The unique beauty of autumn can enhance creative thinking. The combination of vivid colors and the peacefulness of nature promotes mental relaxation, which is conducive to creative problem-solving and visualisation. 🍁🍁🍁

🌟FEAST FOR THE SENSES: 🍂🍂🍂
Autumn brings not only a change in colour but also shifts in temperature, sounds, and smells. The crispness of the air, the rustling of fallen leaves underfoot, and the earthy smells of decomposing foliage all create a layered multi-sensory experience that is deeply calming and enjoyable. 🍂🍂🍂

Next Forest bathing session at Wendover Woods 6th November
https://www.forestryengland.uk/forest-event/events-wendover-woods/forest-bathing-mindfulness-nature-wendover-woods

String of sausages lichen.

At first I couldn't see why this lichen has such a funny name. Looking closer, the pale grey / green swollen stems do resemble sausages.

This beautiful beard lichen seen at Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor is a strong indicator of clean air as it won't tolerate pollution. It's latin name is Usnea articulatea

Breathing is such an important part of forest bathing - so ideally we want to do it where there is clean air - and most lichens are a good indicator of this.

In fact Dr Qing Li, who is the Japanese founder of forest bathing, and our scientific advisor at the Forest Bathing Institute says that 50 % of the benefits of forest bathing come from breathing in forest air which contains tree essential oils with therapeutic properties.

To find out more and experience some of the potential benefits for yourself, why not join one of our forest bathing sessions locally at Wendover Woods.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forest-bathing-mindfulness-in-nature-at-wendover-woods-april-nov-tickets-473942844807?aff=oddtdtcreator

Participants enjoying forest bathing at Wendover Woods.

Dotted patches of sunlight filtering through the canopy. In Japan this is called komorebi.

Interested to join a session at Wendover Woods? Our next one is on September 12th.

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One way I love to explore nature when I have a bit more time is by drawing or painting...

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'Some of our most aromatic trees are conifers. They have needles for leaves and are mostly evergreen, so they stay green all year round, unlike trees with flat leaves, which fall in the autumn with new ones returning in the Spring.

Conifers can live for hundreds of years - some for thousands! Coniferous trees were the first aromatic plants on earth, appearing 300 million years ago.

So when we walk in coniferous forest, we have a chance to smell what the world smelled like right back at the beginning of time.'

DR QING LEE
Nippon Medical School, Tokyo

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Out for a walk yesterday. Just stopped for about 20-30 seconds to look at these beautiful willow leaves that I never noticed before.

Elegant long pointy fingers lifting up and down with the breeze. So many different tones of green. Dark shadows and white highlights. Other less obvious colours...yellows, oranges. Shiny on top, matt underneath.

So much around us when we stop for a minute. Or even half a minute...

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Loved the chance to swim in this beautiful garden pool recently (on a hot day!) Literally immersing the whole body in nature 💚

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6 WEEK FOREST BATHING PROGRAMME
(See link in bio)

Excited to offer this new Six-Week programme at Wendover Woods. lt will run for 6 weeks during August and September. Weeks one to five will run for two hours, week six will run for two and a half hours.

OBJECTIVES

* Each session will be a therapeutic experience , providing you with potential mental and physiological benefits, such as enhanced sleep, reduced stress and anxiety, improved wellbeing as the mindfulness practice will assist in helping you to calm and relax.

* For you to gain new tools - and a new relationship with nature - that you can use on a daily basis. As your guide, I will take you through a sensory journey providing you with tips on how you can access a more calm state of being.

*To support your mental and physical health so you feel confident and empowered to continue using these tools for yourself on a daily basis, to assist with managing stress and the day to day challenges of life.

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🌿🌿 FOREST BATHING...it's relaxing, enjoyable AND science proves it is good for you as well! 🌿🌿

'Afterwards I felt like I’d been to a spa for 3 days! Would highly recommend it to anyone who has a busy life and mind and wants to slow down and boost their wellbeing' L.H. 20th July

Forest Bathing+ Experience - Mindfulness in Nature at Ashridge Estate During your forest bathing session you will be gently guided through semi-ancient woodland for an unforgettable and relaxing experience.

Want to join me at Ashridge forest on a serene journey for relaxation and wellbeing?...moving slowly through stunning woodland and mindfully connecting with all your senses?

Forest Bathing+ is based on the Japanese art of Shinrin Yoku. The session will be calming and relaxing as FB+ has been scientifically proven to produce beneficial therapeutic effects.

Several sessions coming up over August / September.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forest-bathing-experience-mindfulness-in-nature-at-ashridge-estate-tickets-162959527333?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

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Headstone Manor & Museum on Twitter “Happy ! 2020's theme is . To celebrate the day we’ve commissioned a short film 'Discovering Mindfulness Through Nature' Find out more about how nature can help you relax & de-stress. Make time Watch here: https://t.co/FNobo7WgrI”