Slow down, unplug and enhance your well-being with a guided forest immersion.
Scientific studies show that wandering in the woods can help you forge a path to better physical and mental health at every stage of your life. It can even make you a nicer human.
Forest immersions are an invitation to free your mind, feed your soul and reap a range of proven benefits:
reduce stress & anxiety
boost immune function
lower blood pressure & cortisol levels
increase the activity of cancer fighting blood cells
improve focus
feel more connected to yourself and the world around you.
Our immersions are inspired by Forest Bathing, also known as Shinrin-Yoku, a practice that originated in Japan as an antidote to chronic stress and disease. Trees release organic molecules into the air, which we “bathe in” and absorb when we spend time in the trees. No swimsuits needed to soak in the awe and therapeutic compounds that fill the forest’s atmosphere.
Think of this as permission to play in the woods.
It’s a way to explore the woods on your own and in community, and discover for yourself what the forest has to offer you. Every immersion is thoughtfully crafted and can be tailored for diverse capabilities, needs and group sizes.
DURATION
Usually 2 hours but can be customized.
WHERE & WHEN
Public and private forest immersions offered monthly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Available for events in other U.S. and international locations.
Reach out to start planning a unique experience for your group!
UPCOMING WANDERS
Register and get all the details or ask questions!
SUNDAY, JUNE 8th, 2025
9:30 - 12:00
Larkspur, CA
Guide: Lisa Landers
Cost: $60
FRIDAY, June 13th, 2025
9:30 - 12:00
Larkspur, CA
Guide: Lisa Landers
Cost: $60
FOREST BATHING FOR ALL
What would it look like if more people were operating from a place of calm, clarity and compassion? How would it feel to be more connected with nature, and in turn with ourselves and each other?
Forest Bathing provides the space and opportunity to enhance both personal and planetary health. It has the potential to improve every aspect of our lives, and we want to ensure that everyone has the access and support they need to reap these incredible benefits.
We need your help to engage as many people as possible in this powerful but under-utilized practice. We’re developing programs and innovative resources to vastly broaden our ability to offer guided and self-guided forest bathing experiences. We’re already piloting programs with public parks, youth groups, cancer patient networks — and we’re just getting started.
Think of it as ForestRx; a side-effect free prescription for modern living that nobody should miss out on.
This initiative is an extension of the impact campaign connected to the award-winning documentary, Giants Rising, as well as other multimedia projects to share the wonder and awe of nature that are in the works.
Reach out to learn more about how you can help more people tap into the extraordinary power of forests to heal ourselves and our planet.
LET’S CONNECT!
FounderS & GuideS
LISA LANDERS
Lifelong Wanderer & ANFT Certified Guide
LISA LANDERS
The lure of the forest has always been a driving force in my life. In many ways it shaped my career as a documentary filmmaker, leading me around the globe to tell stories about the wonders of nature. It’s also what prompted me to leave my home in NYC to live among the redwoods of California for two decades – and more recently, to make a film about these awe-inspiring trees (giantsrising.com).
Spending time in forests has always made me feel better. At times of intense stress and health struggles, the woods are often the only place where I can catch my breath. I emerge from the trees feeling lighter, happier and more clear-minded. In speaking with social psychologists, physicians and other researchers, I learned that there is hard science behind this phenomenon. I also learned about the practice of forest bathing, and decided to become a certified guide so I could share the therapeutic benefits of this practice with others.
Whether or not you join an immersion, I hope you find some time to play in the woods soon and often. As I can attest, spending time in forests is a remedy for the stresses of modern living and anything that life throws our way. It’s a prescription for getting more connected to nature, to other people and to ourselves.
Lisa
LINDSAY GUETSCHOW
ANFT Certified Guide
LINDSAY GUETSCHOW
I have always felt the most at home and at peace in the natural world. As my career working on documentary films and social impact campaigns took me around the world at a breakneck pace for nearly 20 years, I constantly craved quiet moments in nature where I could disconnect from the modern world and tune in to what is real and true.
I realized during those moments of solitude that I was always in motion (hiking, walking, sailing) in the natural world with some sort of destination or outcome attached. My relationship with nature was fractured and not one that was rooted in deep connection and reciprocity.
The process of becoming certified as a Forest Therapy Guide through ANFT was a homecoming for me. Spending contemplative time tapping into all of my senses to drop out of my head and back down into my body to connect to the more than human world has been a deeply healing journey. It has also helped me acknowledge and process the anxiety and grief that I feel around the climate crisis.
As someone who has spent a large part of my career working on films and advocacy campaigns on the climate crisis, I constantly hear from experts that “technology is going to save us”. I knew that the most important part of the conversation was not being centered and in most cases completely overlooked. Fixing our broken relationship with the natural world and in turn with ourselves and each other is what will truly change the tide. It starts with each of us coming back into our wholeness and in doing so we are able to reconnect to the natural world as something that is within us, not separate from us. Forest Bathing is a direct route into remembrance. Of who we are and why we are here having this human experience that is completely intertwined with the natural world.
I can’t wait to wander with you and create space for you to deepen your connections to nature, and ultimately yourself.
Lindsay
