Forest Bathing, 13 July | Event in Happy Valley | AllEvents

Forest Bathing

Leach Botanical Garden

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Sun, 13 Jul, 2025 at 09:30 am

2 hours

6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97236

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Date & Location

Sun, 13 Jul, 2025 at 09:30 am to 11:30 am (PDT)

6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97236

, Happy Valley, United States

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About the event

Forest Bathing
Forest bathing is a nature connection experience inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku. These immersive experiences offer the chance to break away from the stress of daily life and to find healing and nourishment through intimate engagement with the beings with whom we share our place.

Summer Sessions:

Full moon General Public: Tuesday, June 10 (7:00-9:00 pm)
Heather Burns
main garden

Queer & Trans Community: Sunday, July 13th (9:30-11:30)
Heather Dorfman
south side

General Public: Saturday, August 2 9:30-11:30
Heather Burns
south side

Irene Bailey (she/ her) is the founder and Program Director for Temenos Rising and a Certified Forest Therapy Guide. Irene is honored to design and facilitate nature connection offerings to support the remembering that we are intimately and inseparably connected to all life. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with numerous environmental and sustainability education programs as an educator, leader, mentor, and wilderness guide. She holds a MS in Leadership for Sustainability Education and is trained as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain. Irene supports the creation of safer spaces in the natural world and offers herself as a conduit to the natural world so that others can get the healing and nourishment they deserve to live well. Her foundation for sharing her gifts with the world is rooted in gratitude, wonder, joy, and compassion.

Heather Dorfman, LMSW (she/her) is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide and founder of Rose and Cedar Forest Therapy. After many years of supporting children, youth, and adults who are grieving or in crisis, Heather now partners with the natural world to offer Forest Therapy - a gentle, accessible, supportive and trauma-sensitive practice. In addition to guiding Forest Therapy, Heather offers organizational consulting and training, and is an adjunct professor of social work. In all of these realms, Heather works for a world of liberation, and for the thriving and connection of all beings.

Dr. Heather Burns (she/her) is the director of Alderroot Healing and Renewal, where she is a holistic healing guide and intuitive mentor. She designs transformative experiences that invite whole person learning and healing, connecting people to their deepest selves, to each other, and to the living earth in meaningful ways. Heather holds space for reconnecting to ways of being that honor trust, wisdom, intuition, embodiment, joy, rest, and groundedness.


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6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97236, Happy Valley, United States

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 Forest Bathing, 13 July | Event in Happy Valley | AllEvents
Forest Bathing
Sun, 13 Jul, 2025 at 09:30 am