Field to Forest: Mindfulness with Nature with Amanda Kenyon

Saturday, October 12, 2024 

1:30PM - 4:00PM

At The Nature Museum

Sliding scale - $15, $20, $25

Join Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Amanda Kenyon, on this mindfulness-based nature immersion that taps into our senses, promotes relaxation and well-being, and strengthens our relationship with Nature, ourselves, and other humans. This experience is rooted in the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku,”forest bathing”. 

We’ll begin with a calming meditation that awakens an awareness of what each of our senses are picking up in the surrounding environment. We’ll then wander the landscape and have the chance to explore “invitations” offered by your guide - creative suggestions to engage with Nature that range from playful to meditative.  You’ll take away new ways to discover peacefulness with the natural world, connect mindfully with nature, and appreciate aspects that we often pass by. This experience includes a combination of sitting, walking, and meandering over short distances in the field and forest at The Nature Museum.

Presenter Bio: 

Amanda Kenyon is a nature therapy and meditation guide, woman, voice for the land, dancer, accountant, cook, sister, volunteer, student of plant and spirit communication, teacher of mindfulness, hiker of high peaks and a humble human learning every day from all the beings of this shared planet Earth. She is a community member amongst the housed and unhoused people living on the unceded homeland of the Elnu Abenaki people, in the place called Wantastegok, “the river where something is lost”, at the confluence of the Wantastekw/West and Kwenitekw/Connecticut Rivers, known as Brattleboro, Vermont. Amanda guides mindfulness and sensory-based nature experiences that promote holistic well-being and strengthen our relationship with nature, ourselves, and other humans.

Her forest immersion experiences and nature therapy sessions are rooted in the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku–forest bathing, and are powerful tools for finding presence, connection and wellness in one's life. Amanda is certified by The Forest Therapy School and is also Wilderness First Aid trained. Her business is called Landkind Guide in recognition of our kinship with all beings—mankind as well as the more-than-human beings who we share this land with.

You can learn more about Amanda and her offerings here.