Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yoshino Forest in Japan is home to some of the country's oldest and tallest cedars, with some trees over 1,000 years old and ...

Walking in the woods has measurable health benefits, and professor Yoshifumi Miyazaki is studying how to spread those benefits to as many people as possible. According to his research, spending time ...

Forest bathing, or “shinrin-yoku” as it’s known in Japan, isn’t just another wellness trend. This nature-immersion practice has quietly transformed from an obscure Japanese therapeutic tradition to a ...

When it comes to wellness, chef and best-selling cookbook author Candice Kumai doesn’t just talk the talk—she walks the walk, literally. As a practitioner of shinrin yoku (AKA forest bathing), the ...

A visit to the forest may do more than calm the mind. It could strengthen the body’s immune system. A Japanese study has found that “Shinrinyoku”, or forest bathing, helps improve natural killer (NK) ...

My hiking boots sank into the dampened earth as my fellow "forest bathers" and I climbed a trail in Muir Woods, a redwood forest located 12 miles north of San Francisco. Even though I did not dress ...

Mindful experience of woodlands is used for stress reduction, better immune support, and diabetes management. I may be among the last nature-minded media consumers in the country to encounter “forest ...

After researching the impact of technology on mental health, California-based filmmaker Mike Dewey and producer Kati Hetrick were introduced to the concept of Shinrin Yoku: Japanese forest bathing.

Leila Nagamine and Elizabeth Mortham examine the roots of a tree during a forest bathing experience in the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum led by Forest Bathing Hawaii guide Phyllis Look. FOREST BATHING is ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Akimoto Nakai stands in a clearing within the cedarwoods, the babble of a mountain brook filling the morning air and the slanting light ...