Forest Bathing Summer Celebration - Toronto Botanical Garden
*The event has already taken place on this date: Wed, 08/11/2021
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You’ll get a chance to step away from the screen for a few minutes to engage all your senses in your own surroundings. There will be opportunities for community sharing and enjoying some nature-inspired poetry, art, and music for a true garden celebration.
As a memento from the evening, you’ll receive a set of five special edition digital nature invitation cards to experiment with on your own until we get a chance to gather in person.
How to Participate:
Join this virtual event from anywhere that’s comfortable: your home, your window, or even your balcony. A quiet spot in which to participate is always helpful, but you don’t need to be outside to benefit. Grab a comfortable chair and pour yourself a summer beverage before signing in.
Accessibility Level:
The Forest Bathing Summer Celebration is designed to be inviting, gentle, and accessible to all participants who want to experience nature in a new way. No prior experience with forest therapy or naturalist knowledge is required.
About Your Guide
Emma Rooney is a community programmer, environmentalist, health and wellness advocate, gardener, and foodie. She is the proprietor of Blooming Caravan, a mobile business that brings Creative Companionship—therapeutic gardening, seasonal cooking, and storytelling—to older adults in the comfort of their homes. She also works as a horticultural therapy practitioner, offering nature connection programs in long-term care and to various community groups. Her hands-on approach is informed by an ethic of caring for the land and people and by hours spent wandering High Park, dreaming up possibilities. Emma is a newly certified forest therapy guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and offers weekly community sessions at her Forest Bathing Studio.
Online Program Access
Please note that this program is being hosted live ONLINE only. It will not be recorded, and it will only be available on Zoom at the scheduled time. Log-in details will be sent 2 days before the program date. If you register within two days of the presentation, you will receive your log-in details at 12:30pm on the day of the presentation. Please make sure that you check your junk mail and/or make Eventbrite a trusted site.
Participation in online programming requires that attendees have access to and familiarization with current technology. Please review our Refund Policy and Terms of Agreement, and Zoom Best Practices document.
Registration Deadline: Wednesday August 11 at 12:00pm.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.