Sacred Forest Bathing - by Ellen Dee Davidson (Paperback)

About the Book

"Reconnect with nature for healing, creativity, and expanded awareness"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Reconnect with nature for healing, creativity, and expanded awareness

- 2025 NYC Big Book Award

- Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature

- Shares the author's awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication

- Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits

Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.

Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.

This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.

Review Quotes

"A book to practice and to reference as the forest calls to you. Davidson provides the elements of encouragement and inspiration to begin or breathe new life into your personal relationship with nature."-- "Joni Spring, Pagan Ireland Magazine"

"Sacred Forest Bathing by Ellen Dee Davidson will guide you through the forest while revealing its powerful healing benefits. Each chapter has profound wisdom, helpful advice, and activities to help us connect with nature on a deeper level. Davidson also shares her whimsical forest adventures too as well as others experiences with nature!"-- "Holly, Musing Mystical"

"Sacred Forest Bathing is a journey, a meditation, and an initiation into myth, magic, and sensual communion with the forest. Ellen invites us into a world where the veils are thin and the wisdom of Earth and our primordial belonging here is undeniable. This book is her generous invitation for us all to come along with her into a multidimensional relationship with nature."-- "Chameli Gad, founder of AwakeningWomen.com"

"Sacred Forest Bathing is a poetic invitation into one's own wild intelligence as part of nature rather than outside of it. Through Ellen's personal journey with the redwoods, we are given a field guide for our own encounter with the heartbeat of life. You will never see or feel life the same after walking in Ellen's hiking boots."-- "Edveeje Fairchild, founder of A Woman's Nature School"

"Sacred Forest Bathing reveals how to receive wisdom and guidance from ancient forests where the interconnected web of life exists. A delight for the soul and an inspiration for the mind, this beautifully written book will resonate with anyone seeking affirmation of life's many relationships."-- "Carol Brock, former editor of Boulder Magazine and Boulder Home & Garden Magazine"

"A calming and much-needed balm in these chaotic, uncertain times. Journey with Ellen Dee Davidson into the ancient forests of Northern California and return home to the healing, sumptuous presence of the Standing Ones/Tree People our ancestors knew. You will be compelled to go outside and bond with your local trees and forests to rediscover the wisdom and healing energies of these sacred spaces. A must-read!"-- "Mare Cromwell, Gaia mystic, high priestess, and author of Messages from Mother . . . Earth Mother"

"As we become weary and overwhelmed in an attempt to keep ourselves from becoming numb to the extreme suffering happening around the world, let Davidson be your guide to the life-giving powers of the natural world. She's a most excellent authority and counselor in leading us into states of awe, reverence, joy, and appreciation."-- "Justine Willis Toms, cofounder and host of New Dimensions Radio and author of Small Pleasures"

"Ellen weaves spirituality, cultural connections, personal experiences, and science to transport you into the presence of the ancient forests. Her elegant writing flows with love of nature. This book gives us the opportunity to connect deeply with the wisdom of the trees and evolve our potential as human beings."-- "Beverly Templeton, cofounder of Global Tree Lovers"

"Ellen Dee Davidson has devoted years creating a deep relationship with the redwoods. The living language of the trees is subtle; with Ellen's help, the gift the trees offer us is to learn how to enter into vibrant encounters with wise ancient trees."-- "Elyse Pomeranz, Tree Conversation workshop leader and Waldorf teacher"

"Ellen's clarity is born from decades of wandering the wilderness, communing deeply with trees, and researching ancient and contemporary Earthbased teachings at this time of planetary emergency. Sacred Forest Bathing is delightful, hard-hitting, compassionate, hopeful, and weaved together through Ellen's intelligence, sensitivity, realism, and utter delight for our living world."-- "Jenny Smith, practitioner at the Hakomi Education Network and instructor at Zenways Mindfulness"

"Passion for the natural world and authentic wisdom pour out of every chapter of this exploration of life in the realm of the mystical, where interspecies communication takes place with old growth redwoods, Sitka spruces, whales, and Earth Mother herself. Davidson invites us to soften into what Mother Nature reveals at every turn."-- "Jennifer Comeau, certified forest therapy guide, TreeSisters trustee, and author of The Inside of ME"

"With refreshing humor and humility, Ellen tells of falling under the spell of an ancient redwood forest. We are introduced to her favorite trees, learn about their vibrational energies, and experience the wisdom of their spirits. Along the way, we discover a path that can lead us to healing and wholeness."-- "Mary Reynolds Thompson, author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul and The Way of the Wild Soul Woman"

About the Author

Ellen Dee Davidson has worked as a creative writing, piano, and elementary school teacher and is the author of a number of children's books, including Wind, which won the Nautilus Gold Award, and The Miracle Forest. She is a member of TreeSisters, Awakening Women, and the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project. She lives in Bayside, California.