Or “three years wood wide web stories” I am 32 years old and I have always been single … in the eyes of my parents. I never introduced someone as my significant other to them. […]
Author: Wendy Woods
A certified forest therapy guide and storyteller
A NW-European woman wandering in forests and fairytales
Finding black scary water spirits – in Norway and Belgium
Ponds, springs and pools were gateways to the underworld for the former inhabitants of the southern Campine region in Flanders (Mechelen, Lier…). The Nekker is a black water spirit and lives in in particular in […]
Sacred trees in Belgium: the ‘nail’ trees
In previous blogs, I focused on sacred trees in Scandinavia and India, or ordinations of trees in Thailand. In the past months, I also learned about sacred trees in Belgium. I dived in books about […]
Ordaining trees – Thai Buddhist Environmental activism
A couple of years ago I lived for a year in a campus in Thailand, joined a couple of times my local friends to the forests and learned about some old customs and folklore about […]
Mythic Fiction with tree spirit elements: The white dream
Mythic fiction? What is this? It’s is literature that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some way draws from the metaphors, archetypes, symbols, themes of myth, legend, folklore and fairytales. In the 1980s, the […]
One year already as a certified forest therapy guide (In Belgium): a spiralling perpetual journey
In the end of March 2020, I published my harvest project ‘Becoming the Frog’, some kind of graduation project if you follow the training via ANFT and did a small medicine walk to show I […]
11 Palms – the public life of sacred trees in the fringe of Bangalore, India
Thanks to The Nature of City Festival, I could attend field visits all over the world in the last week of February. Virtually of course. One of my favourite visits was to the fringe of […]
Ecofeminism anno 2021: ‘return to’ forest (healing) activism
In February I connected with a Brazilian serial rooter, currently rooting in Brussels, who is doing her Master thesis about urban gardens as commons applying an ecofeminist lens. The exchanges of thoughts and questions reminded […]
Where are you born = where you root: forest-related fertility and birth rites in 16-19th century of the French countryside
The time of the ‘old hag’ is almost finished and soon we’ll celebrate Candlemass, Imbolc, Setsubun or any other ‘first light/chase away demons’ festivities in the whole of the world. This blog summarises and reflects […]
Like each forest, I have different ages – a reflection during my birthday
Today is my 32nd birthday. Since last night I stay on my own in a wooden cabin in the forest, for the following nights, with books, hot drinks and a live performance by squirrels and […]
