Forest bathing, known as shinrin-yoku in Japan—where it emerged in the 1980s—is a relatively new mindfulness practice ...

For Metro Manila residents and the quintessential homebody or taong-bahay, an inaccurate image might come to mind when hearing about forest bathing for the first time. On a familiarization trip ...

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get ...