What goes on at our Wellbeing Sessions

Simply being in a woodland environment promotes calmness and relaxation that contributes to feeling revived and mentally restored and refreshed.

Our Wednesday Woodland Wellbeing sessions involve gentle exercise and helping to care for the woodland environment, whether helping plant and care for young trees, or working as a team to create new habitat areas to increase the numbers of bird and insect species that choose to make the woodland their home.  

The sessions are essentially about connecting with nature but there is an added benefit in that, over time, cultivating a deeper connection with nature promotes a deeper inner calmness that can help promote better sleep and emotional balance.

Spending time in woodlands to promote wellbeing is part of the national health service in Japan. We don’t have anything like that here but scientific research has shown that spending 2 hours a week in a woodland environment can deliver tangible health and wellbeing benefits. Spending time in a tranquil environment not only helps diminish stress and anxiety levels but has been shown to lower blood pressure and stress-related cortisol levels.

These sessions are for people over 18 years of age. Our objective in providing these  Wednesday Woodland Wellbeing sessions is to introduce people to calming and nurturing activities, designed to nurture and benefit both the biodiversity of the woodland and themselves.

We ask for a donation of £3/person per session, as a small contribution towards our insurance, first aid and refreshment overheads.