Forest Bathing Healing Session
FOR GROUPS UP TO SEVEN
2.5 Hours
Shinrin-Yoku, or Forest Bathing, is a Japanese practice that traditionally takes people into the forest for extended amounts of time, a full day, or longer, with a series of invitations to invoke a new depth of communing with nature that has lasting results. The practice was created to reverse the myriad distractions and demands of the tamed world to which we have all become accustomed, and bring awareness to the medicine Nature is offering to all life. This practice incorporates activities to develop greater mindfulness and presence while moving through a forest or other wild areas. The session includes a 30 minute Hands of Light Healing Session with Yolanda. We close our practice with a Gratitude Tea Ceremony where we focus on the natural herbs of the region by sipping tea together and reflecting on the practice and learning about natural plant medicines growing wildly everywhere in Arizona.
Aumbase Private Hikes Must Be Booked & Purchased 15 Hours Prior to the Journey.
Special Instructions
Please bring WATER. Please note, your teacher/guide will hop into your car to go from Aumbase Sedona to the trailhead. You must book 15 hours ahead online or call to reserve your spot as we depart immediately to hike to our destination for a morning practice.
Sturdy walking shoes are recommended.
We have land mats available to rent for $5
Yolanda Curtis
Land Guide and Yoga Instructor
Yolanda is a Yoga Instructor, Artist, Poet, Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Shaman and Intuitive Wellness Living Coach in Sedona who is passionate about weaving yoga with nature, music, elemental balancing and energy healing to empower people to develop a sustainable yoga practice that can bring immense calm, balance and clarity into living a joyous life of higher states of freedom and love. After living in Los Angeles for 13 years as a high level fashion designer, she discovered that Yoga kept her life balanced and calm in the midst of the chaos of the city. She also realized that practicing yoga in nature has powerful healing benefits and so has developed her meditations and visualizations inspired from her daily sacred time out in nature. Nature can be a powerful bridge back to our own infinite, divine nature and an infinite well of peace within. All of the enlightened poets wrote of their inspiration in Nature and all of the insights they received. Since 2017, the focus of her teaching has been to provide a high vibrational yoga experience with many styles of Yoga, Healing and Breath Techniques, with Sound Healing for a TOTAL mind/body/spirit balance mainly focusing on: breath, yin yoga, yoga nidra, vinyasa, hatha, kundalini, meditation, sound healing, mantra, ceremony, self empowerment, sankalpa (intention) and self inquiry. She utilizes the unique practices of the Japanese, Native Americans, Mayan Medicine People, Sufi, Vedic, Himalayan Masters mixed with revelations from her own break through experiences to guide students towards awakening to their deepest Truth and highest vibrational alignment to live a heart centered JOYOUS life. Connecting to the Elements and the Earth are the keys to finding balance from the inside out. She is passionate about helping people develop a fun and sustainable at home, outside or in the studio consistent yoga practice.
