Greater Nicasio 森林浴 Society (Annual Membership)
$3,000.00
There is something ontological that happens to us in primordial wilderness. Put a person into direct contact with land that has not been denatured by domination, and the deepest parts of us come back into contact with themselves.
So salutary are the effects of simply being in such a forest, that Japanese doctors prescribe forest bathing (shinrin-yoku (森林浴) to millions of people each year.
This an annual subscription to our forest bathing society: a private social club.
In addition to access to our Northern California Eco-reserve the first saturday of the month, for you and a guest (spouse, companion, friend, child) it provides you the opportunity to rent our cabin for weekends or retreats, and rent the eco-reserve and its facilities for events at reduced rates*.
This membership is for an individual and their guest, but we also offer family memberships. If you are interested in a family membership, send an email to support@restorativepractices.com with 'Forest Bathing' in the subject line. Tell us the number of people in your family, and their ages (if they are children). When children are in attendance at forest bathing daylongs, we have a dedicated member of our staff with babysitting, camp counseling, and nature awareness experience to tend to them for parts of the day so that parents can relax, as well as activities that are designed for the entire family. This is an extraordinary way to immerse your children in deep nature, in pristine wilderness, developing rootedness in the Living World and embodied ecological knowledge of place, something that is one of the deepest biological foundations of wellbeing.
More information about the beneficial effects of forest bathing:
See Restore Wellbeing.
See Restorative Practices of Wellbeing.
See The Neurobiology of Connection.
ABOUT YOUR CURATOR:
Natureza Gabriel is the Founder of Hearth Science and the Developer of Autonomics. He is the Principal architect of the Craft of Being Archive. He is the author of 14 books about wellness, and has delivered over 2,500 trainings about wellbeing internationally. He has been trained by Indigenous trackers and mentors in deep nature awareness skills, studies bird language, and is a forest tender and steward. Occasionally you might find him walking through a forest with an arborist sword, engaged in rogue forest tending in support of a forest that doesn't have humans that properly belong to it.
*we can send you information about the specific types of events that are permissible at the eco-reserve on request.
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This is an annual subscription to the Greater Nicasio Forest Bathing Society: a private forest social club.
In addition to access to our Northern California eco-reserve on the 1st Saturday of the month, it provides you the opportunity to rent our cabin in Nicasio, or reserve our eco-reserve for events.
Monthly gatherings are the first Saturday of the month, 9 am to 4 pm.
Usually takes place at our northern California Eco-reserve near Nicasio, California, (45 minutes NW of San Francisco) where we have dedicated access to 800 acres of trails in a private nature sanctuary.
We also take field trips to relevant ecologies at interesting times during the year.
We have spent time at Abbott's Lagoon, Bass Lake (Point Reyes National Seashore), Bear Valley (Point Reyes National Seashore).
We have friends and colleagues with unique and extraordinary private properties around the Bay Area, some of which host us at various times.
We have friends and colleagues with unique and marvelous nature connection skills, including tracking, bird language, making fire, astronomy, etc.
We have friends and colleagues with unique and marvelous craft skills, including ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging), paintbrush making, herbalism, etc.
From time to time they join us on first saturdays, and for special additional trainings.
We have a limited number of daylong spaces in our monthly forest bathing sessions, until our annual membership category is complete.
If you'd like to join us just for the day, send an email with 'Forest Bathing' in the subject line to support@restorativepractices.com and we can explain how this works.
On first Saturdays we run a shuttle from Northgate Mall in Terra Linda.
You simply show up with lunch.
We do the rest.