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Forest Bath Pocket Card

The five steps of a thirty-minute forest bath with their durations, on one page you can fold into a pocket, so the phone can stay off.

30 minutesCompanion to Forest Therapy, Sensory ImmersionWELLBEINGPRESENCE
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  1. Print this page, fold it, take it with you, and switch your phone off before you start.
  2. Follow the five steps in order. The minutes are a guide, not a timer.
  3. There is nothing to write. Nothing here requires performance.
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  1. Arrival, 3 minutes

    Stand still at the edge of the space. Tell yourself: I am about to spend thirty minutes reducing my stress level. Nothing here requires performance.

  2. Mechanical senses, 6 minutes

    Close your eyes. Touch: temperature, air, the ground under you. Hearing: sounds near and far. Open your eyes and turn a slow full circle, seeing without naming.

  3. Syntonisation, 6 minutes

    Walk slowly, with no destination. When a spot feels comfortable, stop there.

  4. Connection, 10 minutes

    Lie down or sit back and look up: branches, light, the sky between the leaves. Stay the full ten minutes.

  5. Incorporation, 2 to 3 minutes

    Sit up slowly. Find one word for what you feel. Then take one deliberate step backward: that closes the practice.

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Source Based on the FTHub Forest Therapy training's guided sequence and script bank, itself grounded in shinrin yoku (forest bathing) methodology, Joseph Cornell's Flow Learning framework, and Arnold van Gennep's rites of passage structure. Adapted by Mat Dufour, certified forest bathing guide.