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 West. Forest bathing is not about getting exercise. It’s not about hiking to get somewhere. It’s about being present in the forest, taking it in. It’s about creating relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.

Transfiguration Preserves members will be hosting their in person events at the Walnut Creek Preserve Anne Suratt Nature Center this month, and perhaps until our roads are safe for travel to Transfiguration Preserve in Bat Cave after Hurricane Helene.

“WRITING IN NATURE” has been creating a community of writers for nearly a year now. Participants who feel deep kinship with the Earth and all of life and who come together in the sanctity of nature, for respite, contemplation and freedom of expression. Whether you are new or have met with us each month, I hope you will join us!

Directions to Walnut Creek Preserve’s  Anne Elizabeth Suratt Nature Center: GPS– https://www.walnutcreekpreserve.com/directions/index.php

to the nature center from Columbus, NC:

Take 108 east from Columbus to Hwy 9 at the light. Turn left (North) and go 5 miles to McGuinn Road at the Exxon Station. Turn right. Go 1 mile to Big Level Road (dead end), turn left and go 2/10ths of a mile to Aden Green Road on the right. Go 4/10ths of a mile on Aden Green and turn left into the Walnut Creek Preserve driveway, following signs to the Nature Center.

to the nature center from Lake Lure:

Take Hwy 9 south from Larkins 2.7 miles to Big Level Road on the left. Take Big Level Road 1.3 miles to Aden Green Road on the left. Go 4/10ths of a mile on Aden Green and turn left into the Walnut Creek Preserve driveway, following signs to the Nature Center.

 Please feel free to read Walnut Creek Preserves’ story here: https://www.walnutcreekpreserve.com/equestrian-community-preserve/anne-elizabeth-suratt-educational-forest.php

Mattie shares that she is “eager to be with you and explore together in this place. For me, writing is nourishment –as all who have attended in the past discovered I hope you will bring any writing you are working on, or dream notes you have, or “stories inside waiting”—or best of all, perhaps– the blank page!”

All are welcome here.

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You will be redirected from the Conserving Carolina site at this time.

*Transfiguration Preserve is private property and guests are only allowed on the property by invitation (a planned event or scheduled group).