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Forest Bathing, Nature Time Are Hot Health Advice
By Kathleen Doheny — 2019
The practice of forest bathing, also called forest therapy, involves no bathing and isn’t led by a therapist but a trained, certified guide or guides. In Japan, the practice is decades old and known as shinrin-yoku, which means “taking in the forest.”
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