Forest & Nature Therapy walks with Kelly Hutchison (Kiss), ANFT Certified Forest Therapy Guide.
Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing) on Salt Spring Island, the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island, BC.
All images are copyright protected by Dave Hutchison Photography. For image use requests please contact Dave through his website.
Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing) on Salt Spring Island, the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island, BC.
All images are copyright protected by Dave Hutchison Photography. For image use requests please contact Dave through his website.
Kelly is a Certified Forest Therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs. She completed her training in August of 2018 in California, followed by a six month practicum. She makes her home in the trees on Salt Spring Island and the Salish Sea with her husband (wildlife & nature photographer Dave Hutchison), and surrounded by nature.
Kelly taught and practiced in the healing arts for over eighteen years and all of her life she has had a deep connection with trees. Thanks to the practice of forest therapy, she is now a re-emerging visual artist. Learn more about her healing journey here.
She enjoys spending her days slowing down through mindfulness practices, yoga, walking her dogs, forest bathing, creating nature inspired art, writing, spending time outdoors in the garden, and quality time with her friends, family and animal companions.
A nature connection walk with Kelly will leave you feeling relaxed, peaceful, and grounded!
To find out more about Kelly's visual nature inspired art work, please see website here.
Kelly is a Certified Forest Therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs. She completed her training in August of 2018 in California, followed by a six month practicum. She makes her home in the trees on Salt Spring Island and the Salish Sea with her husband (wildlife & nature photographer Dave Hutchison), and surrounded by nature.
Kelly taught and practiced in the healing arts for over eighteen years and all of her life she has had a deep connection with trees. Thanks to the practice of forest therapy, she is now a re-emerging visual artist. Learn more about her healing journey here.
She enjoys spending her days slowing down through mindfulness practices, yoga, walking her dogs, forest bathing, creating nature inspired art, writing, spending time outdoors in the garden, and quality time with her friends, family and animal companions.
A nature connection walk with Kelly will leave you feeling relaxed, peaceful, and grounded!
To find out more about Kelly's visual nature inspired art work, please see website here.
Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, June 2022
"The feeling of well-being we get from spending time in the woods is more than psychological. Trees release antimicrobial chemicals in the the air called phytoncides to help defend themselves against harmful insects and germs. These chemicals are closely related to essential oils. That wonderfully intoxicating scent of cedar, for example, is the result of phytoncides. When we breathe the forest air, phytoncides stimulate our "natural killer cells," white blood cells in our bodies that attack tumors and viruses.
So, when you walk among the trees, your immune system gets a boost from the trees' own medicine."
~Hannah Fries. Forest Bathing Retreat: find wholeness in the company of trees.
So, when you walk among the trees, your immune system gets a boost from the trees' own medicine."
~Hannah Fries. Forest Bathing Retreat: find wholeness in the company of trees.
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver
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Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. Located on the Southwest coast of Vancouver Island, B.C.
Experience some of British Columbia's oldest and most beautiful trees.
Experience some of British Columbia's oldest and most beautiful trees.
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I would like to acknowledge the land where I am living ~the unceded territory and ancestors of the Coast Salish Peoples of Salt Spring Island and surrounding areas who continue to use and steward the lands and waters of the Salish Sea. These include the traditional land of the local Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (Cowichan, Halalt, Lyackson, Cowichan Lake, Penelakut), and Saanich First Nations
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