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Mattie is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is also a Zen practitioner, an Episcopal oblate, and a retired education professor, and she is certified in wilderness first aid. This event is one of our monthly forest bathing walks. Forest bathing is a practice from Japan that has been gaining attention in the

Date: Wednesday, December 6th Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location:  Perry N. Rudnick Community Room in the Welcome Center at the Park at Flat Rock, 55 Highland Golf Drive, Flat Rock, NC 28731. Click here for a map of the park. Happy Holidays! Join us for a morning of crafting and education. This year

Forest Bathing Mini Retreat: Nature and Forest Therapy 10am-1pm Join us at Transfiguration Preserve* in Bat Cave, NC,  that has been a destination for reflection and restoration for more than a century. During this gentle, 3-hour experience, we will explore the forest and the banks of the Rocky Broad River while quieting our weary minds

“People ought to saunter in the mountains—not hike! Do you know the origin of the word ‘saunter’? It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply,