Carrie Wilson Consultancy
Bringing together research, lived experience and proffesional practice to create meaningful change, connection and opportunities to thrive
Forest Bathing and Nature Connection
Slow down. Notice more. Reconnect.
Creating space to slow down, reconnect and experience nature differently.
I am a Certified Forest Bathing Guide, professionally trained through Treeming.
My Forest Bathing Guide training is accredited by IPHM, ICHAP, IAOTH and The CPD Group, providing a professionally recognised foundation for safely designing and facilitating Forest Bathing and nature-connection experiences.
Forest Bathing & Nature Connection
As a Certified Forest Bathing Guide, I offer guided Forest Bathing and nature connection experiences for individuals, groups, teams and organisations.
Forest Bathing offers an opportunity to step away from the pace, noise and demands of everyday life and spend intentional time with the natural world.
Whether you are looking for space to switch off, reconnect with yourself, experience nature differently, spend meaningful time with others or simply try something new, there are a range of open, private and bespoke experiences available.
Forest Bathing, or Shinrin-yoku, originated in Japan in the early 1980s and translates broadly as “taking in the atmosphere of the forest”.
Despite the name, there is no swimming involved (unless we find a tempting forest stream!) and it is much more than simply going for a walk in the woods.
Rather than focusing on distance, exercise or reaching a destination, the experiences I offer invite you to slow down and intentionally spend time with nature. Depending on the experience, landscape, season and people taking part, this might include slow walking, grounding, mindfulness, stillness and silence, sensory exploration, nature journalling, forest art, breathing practices, tree connection, sky or cloud gazing, barefooting, reflective activities and simply taking time to stop and notice.
Why Forest Bathing?
Modern life asks a lot of our attention.
Work, caring responsibilities, screens, notifications, deadlines and the constant pressure to move on to the next thing can leave very little space to simply stop.
Forest Bathing creates intentional space to slow down. Research1 examining Forest Bathing and time spent in forest environments has explored potential effects on stress, mood and psychological wellbeing, alongside physiological measures including heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol.
The research base continues to develop, and Forest Bathing isn’t a replacement for healthcare or psychological therapy. Instead, it can offer a complementary wellbeing practice and an opportunity to spend meaningful, intentional time outdoors.
People may choose Forest Bathing to:
Simply give themselves permission to stop for a while
Slow down and step away from everyday demands
Disconnect from screens and technology
Explore nature through their senses
Support general wellbeing and relaxation
Reconnect with themselves
Spend meaningful time with others
Create space for reflection
Experience familiar natural spaces differently
Explore silence, creativity or mindfulnessS
Strengthen connection within a group or team
There is no right way to experience Forest Bathing. Invitations are always just that — invitations — and you remain in control of how you choose to participate.
The experience can be shaped around what you or your group need. You might want to step away from screens through a Digital Detox, create some space to reconnect with yourself, explore nature through the seasons, experience a Full or New Moon ceremony, or simply discover a familiar woodland or green space in an entirely different way.
For groups and organisations, Forest Bathing can also offer an alternative to traditional team building. Stepping outside usual environments and routines can create space for shared experience, conversation, reflection and connection without the pressure of forced activities or workplace hierarchies.
Choose Your Experience
Every Forest Bathing session has a slightly different focus, while still allowing the natural environment, weather, season and people taking part to shape what happens. All experiences are carried out in South Yorkshire/Derbyshire Area unless otherwise stated.
Exploring Forest Bathing
Introduction to Forest Bathing
A gentle place to begin.
Discover Forest Bathing through a guided experience focused on slowing down, engaging your senses and experiencing the natural world differently.
Each session uses a variety of nature-connection activities and invitations shaped around the landscape, season and group.
Approx. 2–2.5 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Digital Detox Forest Bathing: Disconnect to Reconnects
Switch off your phone. Switch your attention back on.
Step away from notifications, scrolling and the constant pull to be connected.
Phones are switched off and safely held for the duration of the session while I retain access to a phone for safety and emergencies. Through Forest Bathing and sensory nature connection, you can experience what it feels like to properly disconnect for a while.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Into the Quiet: Stillness & Silence
What happens when we stop filling the quiet?
Explore stillness, shared silence and just how much we can communicate without words.
Sessions can incorporate silent Forest Art, sensory exploration and silent circle work — creating opportunities to experience presence, creativity and holding space for one another without relying on conversation.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Reconnect with Self
Create some intentional space for you.
Step away from everyday roles, expectations and demands through a reflective Forest Bathing experience using grounding, sensory nature connection and guided reflection.
Slow down, check in with yourself and notice what you might need more — or less — of.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Rooted: Confidence & Inner Strength
Explore what it means to stand more firmly in your own space.
A grounding Forest Bathing experience exploring confidence, courage, personal agency and inner strength through connection with the natural world.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Forest Bathing Through the Seasons Exploring Autumn
17th October 2026
Padley Gorge, Peak District
Part of Forest Bathing Seasonal journey across Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Autumn brings its own richness to the landscape, changing colours, fallen leaves, flowing water, earthy scents and the quieter signs of the natural world preparing for winter. Through a series of gentle sensory and nature-connection invitations, we’ll slow our pace and spend time noticing and experiencing the season in ways we often don’t make space for in everyday life.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person
Want to experience all four seasons?
Explore the Forest Bathing Through the Seasons and book the complete series at a reduced price.
Longer Journeys
Forest Bathing Through the Seasons
Experience the landscape — and yourself — across the changing year.
A four-part Forest Bathing journey across spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Each experience responds to the season through sensory connection, reflection and nature-based activities, creating opportunities to notice how the natural world changes — and what might have changed in you between visits.
Four seasonal experiences | £125 per person
By joining the full series, you’ll experience nature’s changing rhythms across the year while benefiting from a £15 saving compared with booking four individual sessions.
Private and Personalised Experiences
Teams and Organisations
Team & Organisational Forest Bathing
Step away from screens, meetings and the usual workplace environment.
I design bespoke half-day and full-day Forest Bathing and nature-connection experiences for teams and organisations, creating opportunities to explore connection, communication, reflection, wellbeing and shared experience.
Sessions can include elements such as Digital Detox, communication without words, collaborative Forest Art, shared silence, reflection, grounding and seasonal nature connection.
Every organisational experience is designed around the team, location and what you would like the time together to support.
Half-day and full-day experiences | Bespoke pricing
Individuals and Groups
Private Forest Bathing: One-to-One & Two People
Prefer not to join an open group or want to mark an occasion on your own or with someone special?
Private Forest Bathing sessions create space to experience nature at your own pace, either individually or with someone important to you.
Your session can be shaped around what you would like from your time outdoors, from simply discovering Forest Bathing to Digital Detox, reflection, stillness, grounding or reconnection.
One-to-one: £75 | Two people: £110
Carers discounts are available where two people are participating together within a caring relationship. Where a carer, personal assistant or support person is required solely to enable someone to participate, they can attend in a supporting role at no additional charge.
Bespoke Group Forest Bathing Experiences
Your time in nature, designed around you.
Bespoke experiences can be created for private groups around a particular intention, occasion or theme.
This might include friends and family, celebrations, transitions, Digital Detox, confidence, stillness and silence, seasonal experiences, private Moon ceremonies or simply spending meaningful time together outdoors.
From £150 for up to four participants, plus travel
Special Events And Occasions
A Special Forest Bathing & Nature Connection Experience for the Bariatric Community
Rooted In You:
September 20th 2026, Peak District 10.30am – 1.00pm
Created in collaboration with Annalisa Toccara-Jones, Ms South Yorkshire – Miss Bariatric
Raising Funds for Cancer Research UK
This special experience has been collaboratively designed to create a dedicated space for members of the bariatric community to pause, reflect, reconnect and celebrate themselves and their journey.
The bariatric journey involves so much more than a physical changes you experience and the focus on how much weight you have lost. There can be milestones and achievements, but also challenges, adjustments and experiences that aren’t always captured by external physical measurements. It can also highlight internal changes within yourself. The relationships you experienced with yourself, food and others, your confidence, and how we see and identify ourselves in the world.
Through this gently guided Forest Bathing and Nature Connection experience, you will be the opportunity to step away from the external measures of achievement and provided with an intentional space within the natural environment to explore themes of self-love, reflection, acceptance, growth, gratitude and most importantly a celebration of self.
Reflecting and Celebrating yourself is about creating space to recognise each part of the journey, and connecting deeply to yourself within it all.
As part of the experience, you will be invited to take part in a gentle intention-setting ceremony using homemade recycled seed paper. Giving yourself space to reflect your own experience, what you have been through and what you want for yourself now, and plant an intention for whatever you would like to grow next. You can then return home and plant your intention, allowing the seeds to grow deep roots, a living reminder of what its means to be rooted in YOU.
While this session is about you, you won’t be asked to share your story or talk about your journeys unless you want to.
So, whether you’re preparing for bariatric surgery, adjusting to life afterwards, many years into your journey, or simply identify as part of the bariatric community, we hope you will join us on this Nature and Connection Experience, Rooted In You!
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £35 per person with 100% of each booking directly donated to Cancer Research UK
Moon Ceremonies
Beneath the New Moon: Forest Bathing & Intention Setting
A space for beginnings, intentions and what you want to nurture.
Slow down through guided Forest Bathing before taking part in a New Moon intention-setting ceremony.
You will receive a piece of handmade recycled seed paper on which to write your intention before taking it home to plant, allowing your intention, quite literally, to become something you can nurture and watch grow.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £45 per person
Under the Full Moon: Forest Bathing & Earth Candle Ceremony
Reflect, acknowledge and let go.
A guided Forest Bathing experience inspired by the Full Moon, combining nature connection, reflection and creativity.
The session culminates in an earth-candle ceremony, where you will create your own candle using vegan-friendly candle-making materials and take it home with you afterwards.
Approx. 2.5–3 hours | Open group | £45 per person
The Gift Forest Bathing
Give the gift of time in nature
Sometimes the best gift isn’t another thing, it’s an experience…
Forest Bathing gift vouchers give someone the opportunity to slow down, reconnect and choose an experience that feels right for them.
Vouchers can be used towards open sessions, Moon experiences, courses, private and bespoke Forest Bathing.
Available from £25 | Valid for 12 months
