testimonials
for Coming to Our Senses online course
“Having completed the online Forest Bathing Course, I certainly feel the world around me has become more beautiful. There is a new sort of magic in my life, which can make me very happy the moment I look at or connect with nature around me.
An excellent course which I highly recommend to anyone. “
“I have always had a deep love for nature and after moving away from the countryside I felt I had lost that opportunity, but you have shown that there is so much of it that can be enjoyed on my doorstep.
This has been a real gift. Thank you so much for the most amazing opportunity. I have learnt such a lot and have been utilising your techniques to help myself each day - it's incredibly powerful stuff.“
“I feel that the course will have a hugely positive impact on anyone who undertakes it and it will provide unique insights into the sheer beauty of the natural world.
I found undertaking the course to be a positive and joyful experience and I cannot praise it highly enough.”
“I can thoroughly recommend this amazing online Forest Bathing course. It is suitable for complete beginners, experienced practitioners and everyone in between! I found it inspiring and fascinating and it is put together in a unique and ingenious way.
Each week contains uplifting and thought provoking invitations/activities to try out. This is combined with interesting and detailed information about scientific research, poetry and also language.
The video footage which accompanies each module is quite beautiful and is in itself uplifting and therapeutic. As a forest therapy guide myself the course increased my knowledge and understanding of the Practise and has been of huge benefit to me.”
“I came to experience Forest Bathing at a time when the world was upside down. The therapy of going alone into the woods to immerse myself in nature was exactly what I needed. I found a sense of peace in sharing myself with what nature brought to me.
I continue to explore, not with naming things as I used to, but using my senses and inner feelings.”
“The course has been an affirmation for me that nature has to be at the heart of what I am doing and how I am living. It highlighted for me how deep my connection to the natural world already ran and also opened new doors to explore.
I'm feeling more confident and more uncompromisingly 'me'. Being part of a group of forest bathers also made me realise how much I am lacking a community of like-minded, like-hearted people in everyday life, and how much I need that.”
“As an ecologist I thought that the forest bathing course would be a familiar comfort blanket, but expect surprises and enlightening revelations; a beautifully thought out course.“
“When I started my Forest Bathing course, I had no idea how much of a positive effect it would have on me. In hindsight I found out that I was more of a city girl than I had realised, plus I had seen nature as something that was separate from me.
Each and every experience that the course offered, brought nature with all its colours, textures, sounds, and smells, deep into my very being, almost like being connected to nature by an umbilical cord.
During the course, my encounters with nature have resulted in inner calmness and much improved wellbeing! “
“Coming to Our Senses is a treasure and unfolds like a magical journey that takes you into a deep dive into your senses while expanding you far and wide into all that is. My recently planted garden has become a blissful place to be, as a result of experiencing Forest Bathing in it, guided by the knowledgeable and delightful Jan. “
“Jan has cleverly devised this course to gently take you from complete novice to a position of confidence in easily digestible, weekly exercises known as Invitations. These Invitations give you the opportunity to slow down, take some time out of your busy life and connect more intensely with the natural world.
Taking the time and using all my senses to notice tiny details in nature, helped me deal with a traumatic situation in my life, and the anxiety that this trauma had created.
I would recommend this course to anyone that wants to connect with the natural world on their doorstep as well as anyone struggling to come to terms with grief, anxiety or depression. But don’t worry, if you decide to undertake this wonderful course in Forest Bathing you’ll not need to have access to a forest and you won’t be expected to swim either!”
“I thoroughly enjoyed Jan's online Forest Bathing course. I had no experience of either Forest Bathing or following a course online before I started. Jan has made this all really easy and clear to follow, with very interesting and thought provoking content, which is all presented so beautifully. There are videos, text to read, poetry, art and science, all tailored to your abilities, your environment and your time.
Jan's passion for forest bathing and sharing this with participants is so obvious, yet is delivered in such a way that you always feel you have something to contribute.
Getting more in touch with our natural world from my own back garden has been great. I now have new skills that I can take anywhere with me, even when looking out from my window. Thank you very much Jan.”