Sacred Forest Bathing

Reconnect with nature for healing, creativity, and expanded awareness• Award Winner in Non-Fiction: New Age category of the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards • 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award - Earth Changes / Health & Wellness / Memoirs & Personal Journey and 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Silver Award - Contemporary Spirituality • 2026 Nautilus Silver Award • 2025 American Book Fest Award • 2025 BIBA Best Independent Book Award • 2025 NYC Big Book Award • Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spiritsAdvancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.