Japan's shinrin-yoku: Forest bathing In Japan ... the concept of the "flaneur" presents yet another approach to walking. A flaneur is a person who strolls the city streets, observing urban ...

Forest bathing, which follows no fixed rules, involves immersing oneself in the outdoors while engaging all of the senses to ground oneself, be present, and simply be.

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix ...