outdoors

What I Learned from the Ocean

January 29, 2014

I just spent the most incredible week of my life in Nicaragua at a surf and yoga retreat. I suspected the trip would be healing but never anticipated that the ocean would teach me so much about myself and life itself. Learning to surf for the first time was an incredibly humbling, challenging, and spiritual experience. The […]

Forest Bathing

November 20, 2011

This weekend I was at a conference on naturopathic medicine and one of the talks was given by a famous naturopathic doctor, Lise Alschuler. She described the idea of “forest bathing” whereby people spend time breathing in scents from nature (particularly the volatile oils from trees). She spoke of a study that had been conducted in Japan using two groups of healthy […]