OUR VERY FIRST FOREST THERAPY RETREAT was an absolutely grand experience. Walking woodland trails lined with trillium and jack-in-the-pulpit. Soaking up the celestial music of the morning birdsong chorus. Practicing deep relaxation, stillness, and mindfulness; exploring the woods through sight, sound, smell, and touch. And exploring our own deeper sense of compassion and gratitude, for one another, for a beautiful
‘ONCE, IN A BEAUTIFUL, FAR AWAY LAND, that was, somehow, not so very far… A land where every stone was a teacher and every breeze a language, where every lake was a mirror and every tree a ladder to the stars…’ (From Old Turtle and the Broken Truth) We are born into this land, into such a world. But oftentimes,
‘THERE SHOULD BE at least a room, or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you and notice you. You should be able to untether yourself from the world and set yourself free, losing all the fine strings and strands of tension that bind you, by sight, by sound, by thought, to the presence of others.’ Thomas