What is Forest Bathing?
To be aware and alive in these times is to feel pain. Humanity's assault on the planet in the name of progress has brought us climate change and ecosystem collapse. For many, this feels like staring into the abyss.
Forest Bathing cannot heal this pain, but it can help you carry it.
explore your kinship
Olympic Forest Bathing practices Relational Forest Therapy, where you will be guided to feel into your relationship with the more-than-human world. A Forest Therapy Walk invites you into the moment to experience your surroundings using all of your sensory abilities, including the heart sense where we explore the reciprocal nature of relationship.
About Us
Miles Batchelder
Miles is the founder of Olympic Forest Bathing.
Miles acknowledges that he practices on the traditional lands of the first peoples of the Olympic Peninsula, the people past and present known by the names: Quinault, Queets, Hoh, Quillayute, Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Chehalis, and Satsop.
Naming his own positionality as a white settler on traditional tribal lands, and in recognition, Miles donates a portion of the proceeds from each walk to the tribe or tribes whose spiritual homes we visit.
He has felt most at home in the woods since childhood and seeks to end the myth of our separation from nature. His goal is to help you remember your place among the more-than-human world. The ancient forests that survive in various valleys around the Olympic Peninsula offer powerful opportunities to explore our interbeing.
Miles is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs.
Miles Batchelder
Miles is the founder of Olympic Forest Bathing.
Miles acknowledges that he practices on the traditional lands of the first peoples of the Olympic Peninsula, the people past and present known by the names: Quinault, Queets, Hoh, Quillayute, Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Chehalis, and Satsop.
Naming his own positionality as a white settler on traditional tribal lands, and in recognition, Miles donates a portion of the proceeds from each walk to the tribe or tribes whose spiritual homes we visit.
He has felt most at home in the woods since childhood and seeks to end the myth of our separation from nature. His goal is to help you remember your place among the more-than-human world. The ancient forests that survive in various valleys around the Olympic Peninsula offer powerful opportunities to explore our interbeing.
Miles is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs.