Sacred Forest Bathing

The Healing Power of Ancient Trees and Wild Places

Description

• 2025 NYC Big Book Award

• Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature

• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication

• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits

Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.

Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.

This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.

About the author(s)

Ellen Dee Davidson has worked as a creative writing, piano, and elementary school teacher and is the author of a number of children’s books, including Wind, which won the Nautilus Gold Award, and The Miracle Forest. She is a member of TreeSisters, Awakening Women, and the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project. She lives in Bayside, California.

Reviews

“Passion for the natural world and authentic wisdom pour out of every chapter of this exploration of life in the realm of the mystical, where interspecies communication takes place with old growth redwoods, Sitka spruces, whales, and Earth Mother herself. Davidson invites us to soften into what Mother Nature reveals at every turn.”

“Ellen weaves spirituality, cultural connections, personal experiences, and science to transport you into the presence of the ancient forests. Her elegant writing flows with love of nature. This book gives us the opportunity to connect deeply with the wisdom of the trees and evolve our potential as human beings.”

“Ellen Dee Davidson has devoted years creating a deep relationship with the redwoods. The living language of the trees is subtle; with Ellen's help, the gift the trees offer us is to learn how to enter into vibrant encounters with wise ancient trees.”

“Sacred Forest Bathing is a poetic invitation into one’s own wild intelligence as part of nature rather than outside of it. Through Ellen’s personal journey with the redwoods, we are given a field guide for our own encounter with the heartbeat of life. You will never see or feel life the same after walking in Ellen’s hiking boots.”

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