A few weeks back, I co-hosted our first Nature Connection Women's Retreat. 

We were supported by a beautiful forest location, simple ceremonies, group invitations including forest bathing, yoga, weaving, frogging and delicious collectively catered dinners. 

If you would like to join our next one in winter -  with campfires, misty mornings and slow forest time - reply email to be first on the invite list. 

Nature or "green" prescribing by doctors and other health care providers has been shown to be effective for physical and mental health improvements. 

Ongoing research is investigating how to encourage doctors to do it. At the moment it's most common from those who take themselves offline and into the trees (that have a strong nature relationship themselves). See for example, Health Care Provider Behaviors and Characteristics that Are Associated with Issuing Nature Prescriptions in the journal Ecopsychology.

If we have a choice, we'd like to choose a doctor who has a healthy lifestyle. This can be tricky to find, so other projects are aiming nature interventions at med-school students, to develop that relationship and habit in all health care providers. 

Consider these not uncommon daily activities and the alternatives you might be choosing already.

 

An article from Conservation Volunteers Australia for World Wetlands Day (2 February).

A guided nature connection experience is a gift.