Backyard Forest Bathing: Reconnecting with Nature (Virtual Tour — Smithsonian Associates)
In this interactive audio experience, explore your surroundings through all your senses and connect with the beauty and wonder of nature.
In this interactive audio experience, explore your surroundings through all your senses and connect with the beauty and wonder of nature.
In this interactive audio experience, explore your surroundings through all your senses and connect with the beauty and wonder of nature.
We will ID trees of the Rock Creek floodplain and upland woods, including several maples, several oaks, sycamore, tupelo, river birch, musclewood, American beech, hickories, and others as we soak up the autumn beauty of the park.
Spend a fascinating autumn morning with a naturalist and author as she leads a virtual excursion to Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Savor the natural joys of each season on forest bathing walks led by Melanie Choukas-Bradley, a longtime ANS field trip leader and author of The Joy of Forest Bathing and Resilience: Connecting With Nature in a Time of Crisis. Discover the magic of shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing,” a nature-oriented mindfulness practice that originated in Japan and has become popular all over the world.
Discover the magic of shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing,” a nature-oriented mindfulness practice that originated in Japan and has become popular all over the world.
She will guide you on a calming and rejuvenating walk through the Tregaron woodland with plenty of time to slow down and soak up the special magic of spring in this enchanting wild garden. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Discover the magic of shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing,” a nature-oriented mindfulness practice that originated in Japan and has become popular worldwide.
We survey the botanically diverse native trees of Rock Creek Park’s floodplain forest and upland woods and covers the history of D.C.’s woodland gem, the oldest urban national park in the country, twice the size of Central Park.
View the outcrops where an exuberant President Theodore Roosevelt led his famous rock scrambles and get acquainted with the well-maintained trail network.
The walk begins near Peirce Mill, the historic and recently restored grist mill that celebrates the region’s agrarian past. Participants view the adjacent fish ladder that opened the spawning route for migrating shad and herring, dubbed the “herring highway.”
Join a naturalist at the Key Bridge Boathouse for a summer paddling trip around Theodore Roosevelt Island.