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Today is the end of my 6 month practicum to become a certified forest therapy guide with @natureandforesttherapy - and today is also the beginning of a new phase. Currently I am making five seeds where I write down my dedication to the practice of forest therapy as well some reminder of ideas and wisdoms I got. I will send each to a different person who witnessed my journey with the invitation to return it when I meet them in person. In this time we do not know when we can meet each other in person, but I trust each seed will get at its purpose in some way. The third picture is my woodwide web of interbeing, a visualization of encounters I made woodwide in the past 6 months. I am curious what I will find after crossing this bridge.

Let me share a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke. I took the liberty to change the first word into nature; as nature speaks to me more. For me nature is also everything. “Nature speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousnes. Give me your hand.” #forestbathingpoetry

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Eind februari was ik in Schotland en bezocht allerlei initiatieven rond bos en natuur om inspiratie op te doen en om meer te leren. Deze blog gaat meer over de Schotse #shinrinyoku en #wildpluk. De link kan je via mijn link-tree in de bio van dit profiel vinden.

Since some days I walk in the evening, just before dusk, and I sense this amazing smell in certain places, not always in forests but also in streets. It made me pause a couple of times to smell from where this nice smell calms from. It reminds me to drinking hot chocolade with cinnamon at a wood-fed stove in a wooden cabin. The similar beings I see in these places in my village are evergreens and birch. Not sure if this is a seasonal thing, or because I changed the timing of my walks, or because ... “they know”. So I wonder... Do the trees make #phytoncides to protect us, to calm us, to kill the danger, to help us? #foresttherapydiaries #bosbaden #aromatherapy #natuurbeleving

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