The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku or forest-bathing in 1982. Bathing in the forest, however, has nothing to do with water. The idea is to ...

Forest bathing doesn't actually involve getting in the water, so you can leave your towel and soap at home because you won't be taking a bath. Forest bathing simply means you take a stroll through ...

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 ...