{"id":10138,"date":"2019-09-04T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:39:25","slug":"forest-bathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/04\/forest-bathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Bathing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/forest-bathing-forget-weed-this-is-colorados-hot-mind-bending-trend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Daily Beast (opens in a new tab)\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forget Weed. Colorado&#8217;s Hottest Trend is Forest Bathing.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japanese practice has become popular around the world, and the Rocky Mountains in particular are experiencing a surge in interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/cassandra-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Cassandra Brooklyn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0\/dpr_1.5\/c_limit,w_1044\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1567387165\/90829-Brooklyn-Forest-bathing-tease_c6kwzv\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Leona Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re like me, maybe you\u2019re thinking: \u2018Forest bathing? Sounds like a bunch of hippies skinny-dipping in the woods.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong. Contrary to my own initial reaction, forest bathing has nothing to do with bathing and it doesn\u2019t even have to take place in a forest. Rather, the Japanese practice of\u00a0<em>Shinrin-Yoku<\/em>, which translates to &#8220;forest bathing&#8221; or &#8220;taking in the forest atmosphere,\u201d emphasizes the importance of slowing down to connect with nature. It was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in modern Japanese medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first \u201cforest bath\u201d was in Colorado, a much slower (and less exhausting) alternative to the hiking, mountain biking, and skiing the region is best known for. The practice has gotten so popular in the Rocky Mountain state that guides are available in half a dozen cities and a forest therapy guide training program in Colorado this September filled up many months in advance. Forest bathing is growing in popularity around the world and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureandforesttherapy.org\/membership\/member-directory#!directory\/map\">gui<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureandforesttherapy.org\/membership\/member-directory#!directory\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"des\u00a0can even be found in major metropolitan cities like London and New York (opens in a new tab)\">des\u00a0can even be found in major metropolitan cities like London and New York<\/a> City. That said, the blue spruce, Ponderosa pine, white fir, quaking aspen, and other stunning and aromatic trees native to Colorado make it an excellent place to get your nature bath on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/forest-bathing-forget-weed-this-is-colorados-hot-mind-bending-trend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at TDB (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast Forget Weed. Colorado&#8217;s Hottest Trend is Forest Bathing. The Japanese practice has become popular around the world, and the Rocky Mountains in particular are experiencing a surge in interest. by Cassandra Brooklyn If you\u2019re like me, maybe you\u2019re thinking: \u2018Forest bathing? Sounds like a bunch of hippies skinny-dipping in the woods.\u2019&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}