Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA

Record date: 2/27/26

Release date: 6/15/26

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

Episode Description:

Join Natasha and Amber as they slip and slide down a slushy, snow path to a peaceful forest grove where they discuss Forest Bathing and a variety of nature based therapies!

With so many different therapies that center our relationship with and within nature, Amber and Natasha offer listeners an introduction to many of these therapies and the elements they may include.

They explore both the similarities and differences between therapies, what you may expect if you engage in one of these therapies and share many of the benefits offered by nature based therapies.

Throughout the episode they continue to explore the idea of returning home to nature and how each of these therapies include an opportunity to do just that.

Some of the therapies explored in this episode include:

-Ocean Based Therapy

-Sylvotherapy (Umbrella Term) includes Spiritual, Energetic and Scientific Elements

-Curative Sylvotherapy

-Creative Sylvotherapy

-Culinary Sylvotherapy

-Recreational Sylvotherapy

-Energetic Sylvotherapy

-Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing

-Wilderness Based Therapies

Join them and discover which nature based therapy may call to you!

Quote: “The art of forest bathing is the art of connecting with nature through our senses. All we have to do is accept the invitation.” — Dr. Qing Li

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Episode Resources Links:

https://californiavalleymiwok.us/

https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/yosemite-indians.htm

https://www.npca.org/articles/7475-reclaiming-wahhoga

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/tribal-land-yosemite/

https://pinetreemarketwawona.com/

http://www.forestbathinginternational.org/

https://www.forestbathingfinder.com/find-a-walk/

https://sdbg.org/shinrin-yoku-connecting-people-to-nature-through-the-art-of-forest-bathing/

Location: Wawona, Yosemite National Forest, California, USA

Record date: 2/24/26

Release date: 6/1/26

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

Expanding on the themes of previous episodes of the benefits of having a deeper relationship with other-than-human nature, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa share personal stories and different ways humans have found their entryways to deepening that relationship in modernity. They address some of the challenges and ways to self-assess which nature prescription might work for you. They also share some ideas of formal and informal nature therapies and preview some that will be covered in more detail in following episodes.

They include ways to connect or re-connect with your cultural lineage, connecting with land with cultural humility, ideas for simple ways to deepen our relationship with other-than-human nature, and ways to make this relationship tending a practice to foster meaning and purpose.

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A soothing podcast for trying times.

https://ponderwhilewewander.com/

https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/

https://ponderwhilewewander.com/wander-well/

https://www.instagram.com/ponder_while_we_wander/

Episode Resources Links:

https://californiavalleymiwok.us/

https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/yosemite-indians.htm

https://www.npca.org/articles/7475-reclaiming-wahhoga

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/tribal-land-yosemite/

https://pinetreemarketwawona.com/

Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA

Record date: 3/23/26

Release date: 5/15/26

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

Natasha Morisawa and Amber Martin explore the evolving definition of Ecopsychology, some of the challenges in naming the field, and why they took so long to include this in the podcast series. They share personal stories about their relationship to Land and Ecopsychology and how healing and new paths emerged from honoring these experiences. From the banks of a river in the Yosemite National Forest, their discussion encourages listeners to honor their own knowing and explores how Ecopsychology can help us ask deep, holistic and systemic questions necessary to support our relationship with Ecology, Psychology and Nature.

Explore more about Ponder While We Wander

A soothing podcast for trying times.

https://ponderwhilewewander.com/

https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/

https://ponderwhilewewander.com/wander-well/

https://www.instagram.com/ponder_while_we_wander/#

Episode Resources Links:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/802184.Ecopsychology

https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Radical-Ecopsychology

https://mbgna.umich.edu/post/whats-name-limits-problems-and-puzzles-naming-and-referring-plants

https://esa.org/history/biographies/ecological-richness-diverse-contributors-of-diverse-contributions/women-in-ecology-series/