Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter
Join my 'consciousness road-trip' where I delve into the many ways we can help ourselves live less frenetic and stressed-out lives. With regular guests, I'll discuss different 'mind practices' from mindfulness, yoga, compassion, bodywork, forest bathing psychedelics — no practice is off bounds. I'll talk about the science behind each practice, what it's really like to experience, the pitfalls and challenges and how we can discover our own wisdom. If you want to find out what made me quite so curious about mind and body practices, check out my book "Finding My Right Mind: One Woman's Experiment to put Meditation to the Test", (Welbeck 2021) Got questions or topics you'd like me to cover? contact me at www.vanessapotter.com
Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter
Joanna Bristow-Watkins: The inside scoop on Forest Bathing
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Vanessa Potter
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Season 4
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Episode 4
This week I am sharing a fascinating chat with Joanna Bristow-Watkins, a forest bathing guide based in Surrey. We talk about what it's like to be a guide and what benefits there are to be gained from forest bathing in an ancient woodland - from evoking childhood memories via the limbic system to why rain is just SO awesome.
Joanna and I get into the science of forest medicine and also some of the common experiences reported by people who have gone on her walks. Some of which might surprise you. If you've ever toyed with becoming a forest bathing guide yourself, you might find this very useful.
Joanna Bristow-Watkins, Reyad Sekh Em® (Egyptian Alchemy Healing) Practitioner & Teacher
www.harmonyhealing.co.uk
Produced & edited by Vanessa Potter