2. Forest walking promotes relaxation. Researchers examined heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood pressure and found that forest therapy activates the "relaxation response" branch of the ...

Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is an ancient practice that involves immersing in nature to enhance well-being ...

In the '80s, around the time that forest bathing starting taking shape in Japan, Tokyo-based researcher Qing Li, M.D., Ph.D., began a scientific journey to investigate the effects of forest medicine.

Rising 900 feet above sea level, Mount Sutro was once covered by coastal scrub, but today it is a dense eucalyptus forest. The trees, natives of Australia, were planted by Adolph Sutro, a former ...

This September, the SciFri Book Club is reading Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst. When you walk in the woods, do you use ...

Guests take a "forest bathing" walk at The Lodge at Woodloch in Hawley, Pa. You don't get naked because such walks are based on a Japanese philosophy that says immersing yourself in nature is good ...