The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku or forest-bathing in 1982. Bathing in the forest, however, has nothing to do with water. The idea is to ...

Imagine that you go to the psychiatrist and what he prescribes for depression is "forest bathing". You will think that he is insane ...

Reducing stress could be as simple as taking a walk in the woods. The non-profit Brushwood Center in Lake County, Illinois is ...

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get ...

Reducing stress could be as simple as taking a walk in the woods. The non-profit Brushwood Center in Lake County, Illinois is ...