Free and open to the public!
Location: Madeline Island Museum
Decades of research revealed the physical, emotional, and mental health benefits derived from spending reflective time in nature.
Joan Vorderbruggen will guide us into deeper connections with nature — and better health.
Leader: Joan Vorderbruggen, author and certified Forest Therapy Guide, Bircheart Shinrin-Yoku.
Joan discovered forest bathing through her work as an architect and teacher researching the healing potential of human/nature connections. Having personally experienced transformative benefits from nature, she trained through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and became a certified forest therapy guide. Joan lives among the lakes, hills, forests, and prairies of West Central Minnesota, and gets outdoors daily no matter the weather.