An adventure, where you learn by doing.

This course guides you to connect with the nature on your doorstep, through a series of enchanting sensory activities.


You won't learn about connecting with nature. Instead, you'll see, hear, touch and smell in fresh and intriguing ways, while developing your own direct and personal relationship with the natural world.

You will have fun, benefit your health and wellbeing, and appreciate the beauty of the nature where you live with new eyes, supported by your global cohort of classmates, and your course guide Jan.

By the end, you will be a confident Forest Bather, with the ability to sink into your calm relaxed 'forest mind' at will, and have the skills and experience you need to continue practising this delightful art for the rest of your life.


"Forest Bathing has given me a wonderful new dimension to my life!"


Learning from home - so easy!


The structure of the course is simple and easy to navigate.

Each week you are offered a new activity, which you practise in your own neighbourhood, getting to know your local nature in new and fascinating ways. Then you share the experience with your fellow classmates in our online community.

There are no schedules to fit into: the lessons, activities and contact with your group, can be done at any time to suit you, depending on your lifestyle and timezone.

"Jan has made this all really easy and clear to follow."

Continuing Professional Development


The course is also fully accredited for CPD,

so if you choose that option, you can learn

the skills of Nature Connection to enhance your work.

and earn 30 CPD Learning Credits.


Find out more about the CPD option here

What is Forest Bathing?


Forest Bathing is a modern take on the ancient Japanese art of Shinrin Yoku. It's active mindfulness - slowing down to explore nature through our physical senses.

Current research reveals it's remarkably beneficial for both the mind and the body. It's taking off worldwide as a powerful tool to reduce stress, improve our mental and physical health and rediscover a sense of ease, connection and belonging.

It also has a lot to offer our ability to learn and be creative, as it develops our full range of human intelligences, while resting our busy analytical mind. Many people are now learning the skills to enhance their work.

Whichever benefits you are seeking, it is a charming playful practice, which many people find life-changing. It's been described as a key to another fascinating world.


"It's such an insight and refreshing, to see things in a new way, like borrowing a pair of glasses, or someone else's brain!"

Preview one of the course videos

Click below to sample The Texture Palette - a Forest Bathing Invitation from Week 4 of the course .

Your course guide, Jan


Jan creates interactive online courses, guiding participants into connecting with the nature in their neighbourhood through simple enjoyable activities.

She began working with city children in the 1980s, taking them into the woods to meet, and come to love, the natural world.

Today she combines her experience in healthcare, with her love and care for people, nature, and our beautiful planet, by creating practical online courses. When we connect with nature, we fall in love, and what we love we protect.

Her vision is that all people have the opportunity to develop a direct personal relationship with their local nature, and she welcomes collaboration with people in other fields of work.

She lives in the UK, and when she is not working as therapist or course creator, she is often to be found in her vegetable garden, walking, cooking world food, or making willow baskets.


"Jan's passion for forest bathing and sharing this with participants is so obvious, yet is delivered in such a way that you always feel you have something to contribute." 

What past students are saying...


  • "I found all your invitations warm and generous Jan, and your presence on the course very kind, optimistic and encouraging. I would encourage anyone who has an interest in deepening their relationship with nature (and in particular trees) to make contact with you."


  • "This is one of the most fabulous courses I have ever done. If you love nature then this is for you. It really opens your eyes in a most profound way, to what is around us, using all of our senses. Highly recommend"



  •  “This course has changed the way I sense and respond to the world around me - I now have a vastly greater appreciation of this planet, something very special to be nurtured and shared. Life will never be the same again!”


  •  "This course delivered everything I hoped it would and more. I now feel more positive about life in general and excited at the journey ahead of me - it has only just started!


  • "Getting more in touch with our natural world from my own back garden has been great. Forest Bathing has given me a wonderful new dimension to my life."


  • "It feels like I have been let into a secret – who knew that connecting with nature in this way could be so powerful, exciting, stimulating, instructive and enlightening"


  • "I can thoroughly recomment this amazing course. It is suitable for complete beginners, Experienced practitioners, and everyone in between! I found it inspiring and fascinating."



  • "The course has been wonderful, life-enriching, and certainly copper-fastened both my husband's and my love of and awe of nature. Your style and ease is just addictive for us to get out and notice more than we ever did before."