Shinrin Yoku: The Art of Japanese Forest Bathing (2019)
Spending time in nature to improve your well-being…
The year is 2019 and we’re surrounded by more technology than humans have ever been before. We’re on our phones for calls, texting, games and emails, our computers while at work and our televisions when we get home.
Where’s the balance, is it all too much?
Californian filmmaker Mike Dewey, together with his friend and producer, Kati Hetrick, started to do some research on technology and its effect on anxiety, stress, and well-being and came across a funny term, called Japanese forest bathing. And no its got nothing to do with taking a bath in the forest, but more so, spending time in nature to improve your health and well-being.
To learn more about it they packed their bags and headed to Japan, where they met with leading researcher on the subject, Doctor Yoshifumi Miyazaki.
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