A conversation (podcast/video) exploring how to integrate nature, spirit, and science into urban wellness practices. Speakers discuss making nature’s healing benefits accessible in city living—e.g., forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku)—and how such practices contribute to resilience and holistic health.
You have this blend of nature, of spirit and science with you. This is something that's part of a wellness wheel. It's part of a holistic system. What are the ways in which we can really become antifragile and how does sensate wrap into that?
The fact is, most people still live in cities. So how do you expose people to the healing benefits of nature when they're living in a flat in a city and they maybe don't have a park, let alone, you know, countryside to go out into? And there's so much research about this now from Japan and other countries where nature exposure is literally one of the strongest medicine.
Ah, Shenren Yoku is forest bathing in Japan.
So spending time in nature, spending time amongst plants, amongst trees, is one of the most balancing and healing things you can do. And I recommend that people certainly do it every week, do it every day if they can. We're taking people, holding people's hand and taking them down that path by having nature noises in the tracks. The research is quite clear.