M. Amos Clifford

Designed as the perfect partner to M. Amos Clifford’s bestselling book Your Guide to Forest Bathing, this beautiful journal encourages you to deepen your relationship with nature through a gentle, meditative approach, intentional reflection, and sensory awareness of the natural world. It features fifty-two invitations for practice and introspection, each accompanied by two to three journal prompts. Each page offers space to record your experiences, thoughts, and emotions as you engage in forest bathing, whether in the woods, a public park, or your own backyard. Tune in to your senses and the subtle rhythms of the natural world. Bask in the wonderful sensory symphony of nature. Become adept at discovering what invitations the forest is offering to you. Track the evolution of your practice over time. It is through regular practice that you will realize the full benefit of forest bathing. Whether you’re just beginning or already rooted in the practice, this journal supports you in finding presence and healing. It will help you reawaken your senses and deepen your relationship with the more-than-human world.

An expanded edition of our bestselling guide to forest bathing with a new section of hands-on forest bathing practices and space for journal entries and reflections. Simply being present in the natural world, with all of our senses fully alive, can have a remarkably healing effect. It can also awaken in us our latent but profound connection with all living things. This is "forest bathing," a practice inspired by the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku. It is a gentle, meditative approach to being with nature and an antidote to our nature-starved lives that can heal our relationship with the more-than-human world. In Your Guide to Forest Bathing, you'll discover a path that you can use to begin a practice of your own that includes specific activities presented by Amos Clifford, one of the world's most experienced forest bathing experts. Whether you're in a forest or woodland, public park, or just your own backyard, this book will be your personal guide as you explore the natural world in a way you may have never thought possible.

Inspiration from wilderness mystics from around the world, including Henry David Thoreau, Bai Juyi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lalla, Rachel Carson, John Muir, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simone Weil, the Baal Shem Tov, Hermann Hesse, Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, Nan Shepherd, and many more. Sages and mystics throughout the centuries have sought inspiration in the wildness of nature. This little book gathers the sayings and stories of the women and men who have sunk their roots deep into inner retreat and brought forth wisdom for all times and peoples. Here we find the stories and voices of desert fathers and mothers, forest hermits, mountain mystics, wandering philosophers, and wise eccentrics who maintained their solitude while living in society and challenged the status quo with humor. From East and West and everything in between. From Christian hermits, wandering Kabbalists, itinerant Sufis, Zen practitioners, Yogis, court jesters, transcendentalists, and freethinkers, Wild Wisdom gathers a timeless harvest for spiritual renewal. By turns witty, startling, beautiful, and sublime, Wild Wisdom makes a fine companion for personal retreat, daily contemplation, or simply taking time out during a busy day.