Today many people live in highly developed and stressful environments; more and more people return to “mother nature” to reconnects with our natural origins, By immersed in that environment, you can change the mind and release the pressure.

1. An interesting school subject
Forest Therapy

2. Features
History
Experiences
Recommendation

4. today many people live in highly
developed and stressful environments;
more and more people return to
“mother nature” to reconnects with our
natural origins, By immersed in that
environment, you can change the mind
and release the pressure.

5. What is forest therapy?
a research-based healing practice through immersion in
forests
Goal
• Promoting mental and physical health
• Improving disease prevention
• Enjoy and appreciate the forest

6. first originated in Japan in the early 1980s;
A form of nature therapy
Shinrin-yoku

7. Chitou Forest Recreation Area
The forest therapy in Taiwan

8. Activties
•mindful meditation
•yogic breathing
•Aromatherapy
•forest walking
•healthy local meals
“Forest Therapy” is neither hiking nor mountain climbing
The features of Forest Therapy

10. The Results Obtained in the Experiments
the average concentration of “Stress
Hormones“
Lower

11. Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate Decreased
by “Forest Bathing”
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Systolic blood
pressure
(mm Hg)
Pulse rate
(minute)
Urban
Forest
Heart rate and forest bathing relation chart

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Granulysin Perforin Granzyme
Before Forest Bathing
Forest Bathing 1 Day
Forest Bathing 2 Days
Inhibition(%)
Anticancer Protein and Forest Bathing relation chart
Anticancer Protein Increases by “Forest Bathing”

13. What we learned in class?
• Introduce the forest species
• 2 days in Chitou Forest Recreation Area
↑ Essential oil
(try smelling bottle)
↑ Insect specimen ↑ Climb tree ↑ Soil color chart
DIY grasshopper →

14. ↑ saliva and stress hormone testing← Natural dyes↑ eat spices ↑ Sachet made with
essential oils
↑ Tactile experience
• 2 days in Chitou Forest Recreation Area
What we learned in class?

15. • No certain teacher to teach us
• Learning away from school
Why the class was interesting to me?

16. Understand nature
more knowledge you get, more grateful to be