• Yoga in Nature

    Transfiguration Preserve 188 Mt. Tabor Way, Bat Cave, NC, United States

    Join us for a special session of forest bathing and yoga at Transfiguration Preserve with Kiersten Angelos, Certified Yoga instructor and Ayurvedic medicine practitioner. Participants will enjoy gentle yoga along the Rocky Broad River. Bring your own yoga mat and props, and a water bottle. Dr. Mattie Decker’s friend Kiersten Angelos will begin a monthly

  • Forest Bathing: Writing in Nature

    Transfiguration Preserve 188 Mt. Tabor Way, Bat Cave, NC, United States

    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

  • Writing in Nature

    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

  • Writing in Nature

    December 7th 10:00 – 2:00 “Writing in Nature” Where:  Walnut Creek Preserve, 179 Wood Thrush Lane, Mill Spring, NC 28756 What:  “Writing in Nature” includes an experience of Shinrin Yoku, known as “Forest Bathing” with Mattie Decker, ANFT certified guide and mindfulness teacher.  We gather in a circle, with mindfulness meditation before embarking into the

  • Forest Bathing: Writing in Nature

    Come join Dr. Mattie Decker for her special offering of "Spring Equinox Writing in Nature." Writing in Nature includes an experience of Shinrin Yoku, known as “Forest Bathing” with Mattie Decker, ANFT certified guide and mindfulness teacher. We gather in a circle, with mindfulness meditation before embarking into the forest to “find our spot”, our

  • Writing with Nature

    Come join Dr. Mattie Decker for Writing with Nature! This includes an experience of Shinrin Yoku, known as “Forest Bathing” with Mattie Decker, ANFT certified guide and mindfulness teacher. We gather in a circle, with mindfulness meditation before embarking into the forest to “find our spot”, our tree, or place we are drawn to sit

  • Winter Solstice Forest Bathing

    Laughing Waters Retreat Center 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton, NC, United States

    We are invited to share an experience of radical simplicity to experience this great turning from dark into light at a special place in the Hickory Nut Gorge: “Laughing Waters” Retreat Center.  

  • Canceled Writing With Nature

    Laughing Waters Retreat Center 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton, NC, United States

    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

  • Forest Bathing

    Laughing Waters Retreat Center 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton, NC, United States

    Join us for a session of forest bathing. This walk will provide time to enjoy a 3 hour experience in the winter forest as we discover what the dynamic season

  • Forest Bathing

    Laughing Waters Retreat Center 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton, NC, United States

    Join us for a session of forest bathing. This walk will provide time to enjoy a 3 hour experience in the winter forest as we discover what the dynamic season invites us to explore. Mattie is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is also a Zen practitioner, an Episcopal oblate, and a retired

  • Forest Bathing

    Laughing Waters Retreat Center 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton, NC, United States

    Join us for a session of forest bathing. This walk will provide time to enjoy a 3 hour experience in the winter forest as we discover what the dynamic season