The healing power of Nature

If you’ve had something niggly going on with your health - body or mindset , but haven't quite cracked the answer, are you open to nature providing ? It’s the first place most of our ancestors went for healing. The clue is in the names they left for us.

FOREST = For Rest. The forest recalibrates your nervous system, into deep relaxation. The electro magnetic frequency of mother earth 7.83hz, has been proven to be exactly the same frequency as the cusp of our brains ‘alpha’ state (8-12hz) - that sweet spot between active/stressed (beta) and deep sleep (theta). In the forest we find resonance, the Taiao acting as a tuning fork to bring us back to our natural state of being - alpha state - relaxed, where our body heals - flow and creativity. Ever wondered why you’ve walked through the forest before and all of a sudden, you’re feeling super relaxed and even getting a flow of creative ideas again?

NGAHERE = The Māori name for the forest which translates to ‘The binding’. In the ngahere you’ll find a team of plants and fungi bound and working together. Sharing minerals, vitamins and phytochemcials along nutrient highways in their root systems to help each other reach for the light, and fight off pests and disease. Its literally why your Mum told you to eat your greens - because these micronutrients are our key to immunity and cell regeneration. We don’t just get the benefits from eating plants. The Japanese have a term forest bathing because all of these micro nutrients are literally being expelled into the air - an elixir you can breath just by taking a walk in the bush, and breathing deeply. Its also why I walk barefoot when I get the opportunity.

On our Men’s Wellbeing Retreats we start here, in the upper reaches of the water system, in the hills, feeling into the energy for the forest, and remembering, before we follow the water out to the ocean. We take time to breath in this elixir of life. We listen and feel.

In the Taiao we remember we’re not separate from nature, we’re a part of it. If you're open to everything physical also having an energetic field, you're walking through that collective imprint and healing step by step.

There is always something to learn, and on our retreats we’ll impart what we know about the Rongoa (medicine) found in the Taiao. The potent medicine of Kawakawa is one. Just one of the plants we can ask for permission from the forest for, to help us to heal. When we really slow down, and listen in, and ask, the forest will provide the answers.

You might be surprised just how quickly healing can come when you choose to be open to receiving. Mauri ora.