Forest Detox
Authentic contact with nature allows us to regenerate, relax and revitalize from a busy everyday life. Experiencing a forest detox in the nature of Kočevsko will allow you to immerse in nature and feel the pulse that is carried within our unspoiled forests. For a while you will get to relax your thoughts, escape from the stressful everyday life and try to discover your inner peace and balance.
What is forest detox
Forest detox experience in Kočevsko is a unique program that will allow you to restore authentic contact with nature and truly feel and experience the forest area and get to know its beneficial properties for your well-being.
This guided experience is not an active hike, nor is it a nature trip, where you would get to know plant or animal species. It is a journey into your senses to experience the forest. Forest detox might be know elsewhere as forest bathing, forest therapy walk, shinrin-yoku. It has been proven to strengthen the immune system, improve mental health and cognitive functions, reduce stress hormone levels and thus reduce the effects of long-term stress.
Nature of Kočevsko has been gifted with exceptional beauty, which enables us even stronger experience and really a "detox" from the fast pace of today's everyday life. The Forest Detox Experience will help you develop mindfulness and attention, and you will have the unique experience of the forest , maybe to relax, regenerate in an area where there is no wi-fi signal. but you can connect with your true self and own nature even stronger.
The Forest Detox Experience is guided by an internationally certified guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy – the world’s leading association for forest bathing and therapy. Petra will take you through a number of guided invitations and help you to safely “immerse” in the natural atmosphere of the forest.
Total experience last 2 to 3 hours and does not require any specific skills. It will be concluded with a tea ceremony.
Is is suitable for everyone, for hikers, for nature-lovers, for corporate events or team-building or everyone who might like to experience it.
It is important to have a proper clothing, depending on season of the year. You will get all the information needed, when applying.