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I am now offering pop-up Forest Therapy Experiences on @Airbnb ! Yesterday I met and guided this lovely being visiting from the UK. We crunched along the dusting of snow and explored the stories of this dry creek bed. We noticed smoothness and roughness, softness and spikes, fuzziness and thorns all coexisting together under a bright bluebird sky. We tended the land with much tenderness and playfulness, mirroring the trees, and making tiny snowball offerings. #foresttherapyguide #foresttherapy #anft #toadstoolwalks #snowbathing #airbnbexperience #forestbathing

Such a privilege to be part of a such a passionate, dedicated and fun loving training team this past week with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Turkey vultures for days reminding me to hold perspective as we feel our way across these prairies. Sheep, hen, cats and swallows all hangin out together in the paddock reminding me of the playfulness of our interconnection. Rocks of many layers offering up ancient stories. Grateful for the support of the land and the wisdom from cohort 34!

Re-membering our interrelationships with the more-than-human world at the National Forest Service Building with some dedicated and passionate humans. #foresttherapy #foresttherapyguide #anft

Wandering/cross country ski shuffling across deep blankets of snow lazily tracking some more-than-human drama interspersed with some prone snow bathing. Resting up before Wilderness First Aid Re-certification class starts this weekend. SO grateful @osr17 will be joining me!!! #foresttherapyguide

For me, adulting sometimes feels like a strange mix of giving in and opting in. I did first grade twice because I opted out of most basic assignments. I have practiced great discernment finding my place in an adult world turning myself inside out trying to avoid bureaucracy and dodge systems that don’t make sense to me. Walking into City Hall explaining what type of business I was registering was fun and now I have this shiny gold sticker and the legitimacy that comes with some light rule following as well as some exciting new opportunities resulting from opting in with passion and dedication even when it feels dang near impossible. #toadstoolwalks

Forest Therapy Workshop at Rock Camp! @grcboston #foresttherapy #forestbathing #bringingtheforestinside #deeprest #pinewisdom

#liminalspace #transitions #snowbathing #foresttherapy @arnold_arboretum

Announcing my spring calendar that includes ongoing regular forest bathing walks around Boston, half-day retreats, a multi-week series in May, a restorative day-long forest and sound immersion and a 4-day retreat in the Berkshires in June. Learn about my 1-1 nature-connection mentoring services, tarot forest mapping, and some very special collaborations. Check out toadstoolwalks.com (link in my profile) to see the full line up and learn more. Looking forward to connecting and bearing witness with you this spring🌲🍄🌱🐾🌻🌼🌿 #foresttherapy #forestbathing #toadstoolwalks #naturebathing #foresttherapyguide #liminalspace #shinrinyoku #forestmedicine #belonging #arnoldarboretum #moosehillwildlifesanctuary #annabeloneill #carriegrossman #lilactherapy #muddyriverherbals #bct

TF when your oldest friend lures you to Maine and books the cutest little bunk room at the cutest little hostel and there just happens to be a mando and a guitar in the cutest living room waiting for us to have a sing-a-long hoot. Maine will always have a big piece of my heart. #blackelephanthostel #portlandmaine #oldport #oldfriends

We are family, I got my snow-people with me #giftsoftheforest #snowpeople #snownation #toadstoolwalks #snowbathing #snowalien

#chaosspread with @tc_frost @40southvintage right now. Come by for a $20 tarot reading, a mystical cocktail, and 20% off all clothes! Here till 4:30! #toadstooltarot

As I witness some of my queer family in deep grief this week, I am reminded of how fragile and fast life can zip along despite our best efforts to not take eachother’s existence for granted. When the bottom drops out it can be so disorienting, so sense heightening, so halting. As I hold my loved ones close, I continue to catch myself bracing for that inevitable ground to drop out from under me. Maybe instead of preparing for the other shoe to drop, I can notice the abundance in my life and bring my attention to prioritizing my relationships with all the beings of my life. I met Mildred thru my friend Seven who met her doing handy work. Mildred was Seven’s first customer. We helped Mildred move out of her home of 40 years about 4 years ago. During Mildred’s transition process into a retirement community, we helped go thru all her stuff and I saw lots of photographs of mountains that I recognized and when I asked her if she hiked the #WhiteMountains she lit up and told me endless stories about hiking up there. She also thru-hiked Vermont’s #LongTrail in the early 1940’s with her late husband for their honeymoon. At the time she told me this story, I just so happen to be planning a #longtrail thru-hike of my own with @tc_frost . I have since been able to share these adventures with her and hear fun stories about what it was like to thru-hike 80 years ago. Today I was so delighted to share with her that @studgreen I finished the #NH48 this year and I showed her a picture book that our partners had put together for us and she had recognized every mountain sharing adventure story after story. I showed her my patch and she was so impressed and so happy for me. Watching her reminisce of all those ridges and ranges was joyful. In a broken culture where so many of our elders are overlooked, put away and considered a burden, I feel so rich and grateful for the elder wisdom in my life. What a miracle it can be to stay alive! Mildred has 98 years of rich life experience that she is so happy to share! If I get the honor of become an elder, I can only hope to have young friends who want to listen my stories and have curiosity about what life was once like

@40southvintage

Back to Venice for 1 more sunset over the Pacific before heading back east. #thresholdofincorporation #dogtown #liminality #socal

“I do not wish to be an artist, I only wish that art enables me to be.” – Noah Purifoy, 1963 #purifoymuseum #noahpurifoy #desertecology #integration #liminality #toiletart #grief #pleasuresofpresence