Explore in Nature
Point Reyes National Seashore and Beyond
Fostering deep Connection With the Natural World through Relational Nature Practices
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Joey Heusler
Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, Naturalist
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Still, what I want in my life, is to be willing, to be dazzled, to cast aside the weight of facts.
Mary Oliver
Testimonials:
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I am feeling so much calmer and at peace with the natural world around me, which helps me deal with the stresses of the "real" world.
My Forest Bathing guide/instructor Joey was an expert at gently guiding our small group into various themed thought processes, connected to our surroundings.
To connect with nature is a sublime experience. I learned how important this is to our mental and physical health,and also learned some tools to keep the Forest Bathing experience/principles a part of my life.
Jamie, 2023
I notice that I am more at ease and at peace. I feel rested and centered.
This retreat was so deeply nourishing. I am so grateful to Joey as the leader, my fellow participants, and the natural world for creating this opportunity. It was all magical.
Forest Bathing Retreat participant, 2024
The entire morning session felt magical.
Anonymous, 2024
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Baja trip participant 2022:
This trip has been a life-changer for me. I keep envisioning the vistas and hearing the sounds and smelling the scents. I have been telling people that this trip restored my soul. And it has and continues to do so even after we are back. All I have to do is think of it to bring it all back into my mind like I am there again. The experience of Nature with a bare minimum of human interference, and that interference being totally in tune with Nature, was profound. I felt a connection to these majestic, supreme creatures of the ocean, and to the ocean and land and its other wildlife, and its beauty and timelessness; I can't find words to describe what it meant and means to me.
And the great majority of it is due to you, Joey. You sharing your own connection and experiences with these awesome creatures, in your own unique way -- quietly and yet with a force of nature belonging only to you -- insisting, for example, that we sit quietly with the engines off so that we could listen to the sound of the exhale and the inhale of the great Blue Whale, reverberating into the deep --was a huge factor in what made this trip so memorable for me.
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Joey Heusler
Joey is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide with the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy guides and programs (ANFT).
Joey guides Forest Bathing walks and retreats in Marin County and beyond.
Her passion is bringing participants into a place of stillness and open heart where a deeper connection with the natural world and a greater sense of well-being becomes possible.
Joey is also a California certified naturalist and a certified naturalist with the American Cetacean Society. She guides annual adventures to Baja; an immersion to the remote desert breeding lagoons of the gray whales and to the Sea of Cortez to be with the blue whales.
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Joey Heusler
certified Naturalist, certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide