Here you’ll find an overview of our posts about Nature, our Environment, and wellness activities in and with Nature.
I don’t know very much about agriculture, but on La Palma (one of the Canary Islands) it’s a trait one can’t oversee. The abundance of fruit-bearing trees and plants, vegetables, crops, well — it’s simply [ Read more … ]
Although learning in, with, and through Nature was an already existing practice, the global popularization of Forest School education began in the 1950s in Denmark and Sweden. Forest Schools today refer to the pedagogical method [ Read more … ]
Earthing (also called Grounding) in the sense of Energy Healing or Nature Therapy is the belief and practice that it’s necessary to restore direct contact with Earth to maintain or restore health and happiness. It’s [ Read more … ]
Some people think that living in the midst of the forest resembles dwelling in a relaxed, fairy-tale like setting of profound peace and quiet. But actually it really isn’t like that at all, and certainly [ Read more … ]
The Green Hell, or L’enfer vert, is the unfavorable name the French have given to French Guiana, their little South-American colony neighboring Suriname and Brazil. The reasons for this derogatory “title” are quite simple: the [ Read more … ]
Because of its many trails and tracks, its exquisite views and scenery of awe-inspiring mountains, valleys, volcanoes, dramatic cloud-play, myriads of climate zones, and crystal clear sea, La Palma “La Isla Bonita” — part of [ Read more … ]
It’s November 22, 2012. Last night the rains started. My God, finally. It has been three months now of being embraced, well, “roasted” by suffocating heat, this merciless sun, the dry season. I can clearly [ Read more … ]
I’m perhaps more of a forest and mountain walker, but there’s surely something to beach walks. Through the years, I’ve done quite a lot of beach hikes, all sorts of actually, and I’ve almost always [ Read more … ]
Tree Hugging is a type of Nature Therapy or Ecotherapy. It’s thought that hugging trees is an activity that yields physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health benefits for the hugger, described in terms such as [ Read more … ]
The idea that spending time in Nature has health benefits for people is not new. Nevertheless, the practice got quite a boost in the early 1980s when the Japanese government (Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, [ Read more … ]