Sacred Forest Bathing

Reconnect with nature for healing, creativity, and expanded awareness

• Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature

• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication

• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits

Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.

Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.

This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.

Ellen Dee Davidson has worked as a creative writing, piano, and elementary school teacher and is the author of a number of children’s books, including Wind, which won the Nautilus Gold Award, and The Miracle Forest. She is a member of TreeSisters, Awakening Women, and the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project. She lives in Bayside, California.

Foreword by Allegra Moon

Acknowledgments

Introduction—An Invitation

1 Health

2 The Goddess Beauty

3 How Do We Listen?

4 Angel Trees

5 The Green Jewel

6 Redwoods and Whales

7 Obstacles along the Path

8 Holy Groves

9 Eagles and Condors

10 Celtic Nature Magic

11 Power Spots

12 Sixth Sense

13 Pink Silk Dress

14 Lion

15 Gravity

16 Graves

17 Soil

18 Weather

19 A Fable for Our Times

20 Sitting with Sitka Spruce

21 The Golden Mead

22 Unicorn Magic

23 Dryads

24 Sacred Sexuality

25 Rutting Elk

26 Exuberance

27 Elen of the Ways

28 The One-Hearted Path

29 Violet Tree

30 Freyja

31 Missed Chances

32 Camping

33 Sedna

34 Imagine

Conclusion—Dreaming the World

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