Shinrin-yoku is a Japanese term that translates as forest bathing. It’s a practice that promotes the calming and restorative benefits of spending time in forests and participating in activities that keep you in touch with nature. I can confirm that a walk in the woods with Molly Moore, with plenty of gossiping and giggling and occasional stops to get naked is indeed rejuvenating!
Molly wrote a great account of our day out for Wicked Wednesday a couple of weeks back – read it and see more of the photos here. Thanks for a fab afternoon, lovely. xx
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Completely stunning.
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Your pictures are getting more and more breathtaking and I didn’t think that was possible as you have blown me away every week from the beginning. Xx
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So gorgeous!
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Well how cool is that for a photo prop?!? Amazing shot, great angle & lighting, the entire photograph is just so natural looking. Great capture.
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I do love the outdoors, although I prefer it if I’m alone to be able to enjoy it completely.
This image is lovely, I can imagine myself in your place, just being and letting go of cares and worries for a little while
xx
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lovely view
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Of all the time I spend in the forest, this meets my greatest fantasy to see a beautiful woman enjoying the luxury of the woods.
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Oh, I love this! The colours and light in the forest are gorgeous, and you look beautiful. Xxx
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This is a beautiful photo. So peaceful and tranquil. Wish I could tag along on one of your excursions!
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I hadn’t heard of shinrin-yoku before, which is a surprise both because I was recently in Japan and because I am a firm believer of the various benefits of spending time in forests. Only one thing could improve such moments and that is being naked, completely back to nature. This is such a beautiful and calming picture, your perfect nudity in perfect surroundings.
O
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I hadn’t heard of it either until I sent this photo to a friend and she told me about it…it seemed a perfect way to frame the photo. Thanks for the lovely comment. X
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That is a gorgeous way to commune with Nature!!
~Kazi xxx
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I was such a fun day and I hope we get to do it again at some point. I really love this image, I think I captured the serene peaceful nature of the woodlands with you bathing in it really well
Mollyxxx
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Such a beautiful photo, one I would put in a frame and hang in my house
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I am considering this! Maybe in my bathroom!
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That looks like a really relaxing place to take a bath and I love the idea of having it framed on the bathroom wall 🙂
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Very pretty. I’m always afraid to be naked outside though for fear of bugs. And sunburn.
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A gorgeous photo – and I really appreciated learning more about the practice, too 🙂
xx Dee
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I saw Molly’s post the other day about your exploits in the woods and it sounds as though it was a blast! This image is absolutely gorgeous!
Velvet x
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At one with nature…stunning tones on your skin…”sun kissed” 😉
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What a great experience.
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Here, Titania, is the full verse of which your image reminds me:
…I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight
Titania was a sensual woman, but I don’t think Shakespeare ever dreamed of this in his Midsummer woods 🙂
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Why can’t I find such amazing props in the woods near me…wonderful image.
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What a wonderful find . . . and a wonderful photo!!!
Xxx – K
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So gorgeous. I can almost hear bird noises glancing off branches. Restorative indeed x
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you just look gorgeous and so terribly relaxed and zen!
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I WANT THAT BATH! And that forest!
This picture is tranquil and beautiful and all those good things and I really, really want to climb into the shot right along with you. Beauty. Bliss. Nature. (Funnily enough, M and I once look at a house (which we didn’t end up buying) that had a tub like this in the middle of the garden. The owners had built a fire underneath it to heat the water. All I could think about when we were looking around was how much I wanted to run out and climb in it!)
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Oh my gosh. A heated bath in the garden?! FAR cooler than a regular hot tub! Did you see the ones of Molly and I in the tub on her site?
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Sometimes I see a picture and a musical sound track seems right – right now I have the dawn chorus of birds rising even though it’s still dark from my home office window, it fits because I can imagine the sun basking as it is on you and Molly’s friendship and you skin.
Ps While writing this I now have January Man playing by Rachel Unthank which added a colder tint
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Stunning image! What a luck that you found the bath in the forest! Unexpected things make for such lovely images, like this one 🙂
Rebel xox
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Such a gorgeous image! I loved the ones Molly posted as well. It seems like it was a perfect day.
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I love the photo and I love the concept of “forest bathing” and must tell someone about it. The Japanese think of everything! I have an identical wooden bowl, it is a Swedish bread-making bowl, and I have always wondered what to do with it, but now that I see you laying in yours, I know exactly what to do with mine.
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