Retreat and Hiking Group Programs

Have a group? Will travel

Hiking/ Backpacking:

Go Into Nature will bring 1/2 day to multi-day programs to your group. We listen to your needs and dreams, and create a program specifically for you. We have the expertise, connections, experience, and genuine care, to bring your group to its own unique meaningful and fun nature experience. We can walk to a peak and hangout, or do one of the nature exercises listed below.

Retreats/ Workshops:

Go Into Nature can bring meaningful and unique workshops to your group or retreat, which are generally 3-6 hours long. Here are some examples of workshops offered:

1.     ShinRin Yoku Walks, also called Forest Bathing. Proven to lower blood pressure, heart rate and concentrations of salivary cortisol (a stress hormone) and create a heightened feeling of contentment, and increased immune system function. Tea on the trail ends the walk.

2.     Making a Peace Mandala with Natural found objects. We explore photos and get inspired. Gathering fallen objects we make a group or individual mandalas, share thoughts and joys of the art.

3.     Ancient Traditional Medicine Walk. This is not just a day hike, it is an opening to the wisdom and clarity we can explore through quiet attentiveness and interaction with nature.

4.     Mirror Walks, also called trust walks.   Our sense of vision is wonderful, but when we remove it, our other senses become so much stronger, more tender, heightened. The mirror walk takes away this sense and puts us both in a place of trust, and of heightened touch, smell, taste, and sound.

5.  Embodying the Elements. Participants are guided into movement embodying the elements. This exercise is amazing, and takes a fair amount of comfort and trust as a group to move together, but for the groups that are willing, it is incredibly fun and free and deep!