Forest Bathing
Experience the natural world with the intention to remember how to connect with your nature self. Spend time outside of human-created systems with intentionality, open your senses and hone another way of knowing outside of our societally trained ways.
Many of us have forgotten our intuitive selves. Forest Bathing is a beautiful way to relearn how to hear our deep wisdom, remembering how to hear our earth body speak, counsel, and guide us.
Our thoughts become the filter through which we perceive reality. In a state of non-attachment and without expectation, life reflects itself back to us. Intuition requires that we are in a state of not-knowing and receptive to allowing life to unfold.
Magic happens when you open yourself up to the signals in your environment. Messages are there to be received, revelations to be made. The star filled sky, the bark of a tree, the persistence of a mosquito, or the song of a bird may reflect a new perspective back to you when in a state of awareness.
Sessions will begin with meditations and exercises designed to help you quiet the ego mind and open up your intuitive self. You will then take a look at your intention and participate in activities designed to help you tap into your inner knowing through communing with the wisdom of the natural world.
“In the silence of the forest, stories can be heard if the mind is still. In the stillness of the forest, the heart can hear. Hearing from the heart, the mind can rest and love blossoms. Embodying love, magic happens.”
Julia
I was in a bit of a funk, missing my physical therapist self of 24 years. I devoted much dedication and hard work to my practice! So, I went forest bathing seeking relief from my melancholy.
The day was gorgeous, beautiful fresh late spring ferns covered the forest floor. The canopy, still pale in its green color was full of warblers, the floor alive with thrushes. “Fresh start, new beginnings”, I told myself, “get over your sad self!” Cresting a hill, appreciating the forest, I received a gift. A moose had shed an antler and there it lay for me to see. Bleached by the winter sun, gnawed on by the forest rodents, the antler sat as if on an alter, offering its wisdom.
This antler was shed sometime during the winter and the moose is now back in his growing season with the antler buds covered with velvet, rich with blood vessels. Moose are often seen at this time of year with their heads deep into the calcium and phosphorous rich water plants growing in Abbey Pond. Their ferocious appetite nourishes the fast growing bone which will be more glorious than the antler produced the year before. Autumn will come and he will scrape the velvet from the antlers and walk with pride under their shining glory during the mating season.
Their long legs offer them easy passage through the deep mountain snow in the cold winter. Moose antlers can weigh 15 pounds apiece. With mating season behind them, the antlers become an energy sink, burdening their survival efforts, so they shed their glorious hard work. In the springtime they will begin anew, creating an even more magnificent rack.
The antler is a beautiful lesson in gracefully letting go of a career that I am proud of. Like the calcium and phosphorous of the bone living on through the forest rodents, my practice will live on through those climbing in their careers. Like the effort poured into building the new antler bone, my new efforts will sustain me. Like the anticipation of the next mating season, I anticipate helping many more in new ways.
Thank you, Moose Medicine!
The natural world is a reflection of ourselves. Mother Earth offers us so much wisdom if we are able to walk with the intention to quiet our ego and hear our inner voice. Forest Bathing is a beautiful way to relearn how to connect with our true, nature self, and remember how to hear our earth body speak, council and guide us.
I look forward to our paths meeting again on our healing journeys, Julia Wolf
What People are Saying
“I am lucky enough to have worked with Julia during the past year and know that I always leave her yurt more deeply integrated within myself no matter the challenges afoot. Her shamanic wisdom and powerful connection to the spirit world invariably help me to go deeper and access my own deeper Self.”
Blessings, T.
“I asked Julia to treat my frozen shoulder, after treatments by other practitioners did not resolve the problem. From the first treatment, I recognized she was doing something beyond physical therapy. That “something” is Julia’s specialty, and soon I was healed.”
John McPartland, DO, MS
"Julia has created a safe and sacred place for healing and increasing awareness between body, mind and spirit. In the work we did together, old trauma surfaced although I had worked with held trauma for many years. She was skillful and supportive with both her non judgmental questions and energy work. I left our sessions with a deeper understanding of an old pattern that was surfacing in a new way.
I highly recommend Julia and her work."
Victoria RN, Lic. Ac