Benefits of Nature Therapy
Why choose Nature Therapy?
- Improve mood and mental health. Reduce depression and increase self-esteem.
- Reduce stress. Lower cortisol levels.
- Reduce anxiety. Deactivate your fight or flight (sympathetic) nervous system and active your rest and digest (parasympathetic) nervous system.
- Improve focus and short-term memory.
- Improve sleep.
- Boost immunity. Increase your count of white blood cells (NK cells) that fight virus and tumor-causing cells.
- Reduce inflammation.
- Lower blood pressure and heart rate.
- Regulate blood sugar.
- Increase creativity.
- Recover faster from surgery.
- Feel connected. Reduce loneliness and isolation by developing a sense of belonging with the natural and spiritual worlds.
- Experience positive emotions. Feel more peacefulness, gratitude, joy and wonder.
- Learn mindfulness tools to bring to your daily life.
What to expect
Overview of Nature Therapy with Amanda Kenyon
- Intention. We work towards calming our busy minds and soothing body tension to allow an expanded awareness of our inner and outer worlds. We learn to slow down.
- Guided progression. We start with a relaxing, grounding, sensory-awakening meditation. We then explore mindfulness-based prompts ("invitations") that help focus attention and improve present moment awareness. Yogic stretching or breath work may be included.
- Sharing. While this is not talk therapy, we do pause periodically for you to share what you're noticing during the meditations and invitations.
- Interaction with the natural world. The slow pace and sensory focus allow you to engage in direct, hands-on exploration of your relationship to Nature.
- Customization. We'll work with your comfort zone, and your mobility level.