Increase Your Nature Connection: A 7-Day Nature Connection Series

This first lesson is an overview of the practice and suggestions of how your own designated area to sit may look like. It gives you an opportunity to set your special space before starting the first session.

Our first invitation is a guided senses awareness. We suggest that you listen to the first part and then bring your phone or audio device to your Sit Spot with you and listen to the recording to be guided through your senses whilst in Nature.

This practice requires attention to truly hear what is going on around you - we spend our lives with so much noise around us that we have learnt not to acknowledge most of it. It invites you to focus on the natural sounds that surround us.

We will introduce you to a practice called staying in breath or seasonal breathing. This utilises the seasons of the year to help focus our breath. Every cycle of focussed breath will help to balance our nervous system.

What's in motion is an invitation that we always use in Forest Bathing. When we slow down, we have the opportunity of noticing and observing so much that we had not even seen in the past. This invitation helps you to focus on just this.

This session sounds easier than it actually is. Simply to sit and be, do nothing. When we lead busy lives and always on the go, actually sitting and doing nothing for 20 minutes can be quite challenging.

Today is about increasing our connection with our special designated area. The invitation is in two parts, the first part to observe your area and the second to spend some time to draw your own map.

So far this week we have focussed on the nature around us, today we change the focus to our own true nature and the subtle movements and signs that let us feel our own aliveness from within. These can be from the smallest flutter to pulsations.