After Summer solstice (and my bestie from Norway left), the weather changed very dramatically in Nagoya, Japan. In the last week of June, I felt myself suffocating in the evenings. The temperature and humidity started […]
Wood weaving & forest bathing in Nagano, Japan
Last weekend, I co-organised a trilingual forest retreat weekend in Nagano, Japan I helped to organize. Yes, trilingual 😃. At some point I was mixing Japanese, Spanish and English 😅. On the program we had wood weaving, yoga, […]
Poison Ivy Teachings
Originally posted on The Druid's Garden:
Sometimes, as druids and as nature-oriented people, we focus only on the fuzzy and happy parts of nature: blooming edible flowers, fuzzy soft rabbits, cute animals, soft mats…
Lugnasadh: the first corn, rice and berries
Lugnasadh, also known as Lammas- is the start of the harvest season, marking the point where the first fruit of the land has ripened. This is also the time of Lugnasadh, a festival my ancestors […]
Medicine Making and Sacred Herbalism at Lughnassadh
Originally posted on The Druid's Garden:
I love celebrating the druid wheel of the year. Its just an amazing experience to dedicate eight days to magic, ritual, being outdoors, studying, reading, meditation, gardening, and…
What did a visit to Japan’s suicide forest teach me about forest therapy?
Unbalanced society Once upon a time, Japanese society was more a forest civilisation than nowadays. People used the wood to build castles, temples and houses, or made bowls, cutlery and furniture. Today, most Japanese no […]
Birch cake and the colonization of Hokkaido’s nature and Ainu
Last month, my Norwegian friend and I explored Hokkaido, the northernmost bigger island of Japan, for almost ten days. I waited almost two years to visit this place, as I always imagined this friend to […]
A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing: Ecosystems, Interconnectivity, and Planting Guilds
Originally posted on The Druid's Garden:
I had a recent conversation with a friend who lives in the town where I work (and where I used to rent a house). I had commented on…
Meeting Japan’s curse spirits during a Forest Bath
Several weeks ago I experienced a first forest bath in one of the 62 certified forest therapy bases in Japan. You can read and see photographs in this blog: Forest therapy Taking Root. What I […]
Forest Therapy Taking Root
Our hectic society gives us little or no rest, so we often get overworked and overtired. Since the 21st century, forest therapy has been prescribed as a medicine for city dwellers to deal with stress […]
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