In an urban environment, sitting in an office all day, you're pretty much surrounded by your microbial cloud only. Step among the trees, though, and you'll swap microbe populations with all sorts of organisms. There are many types of trees that give off phytoncides these are pine, cedar, spruce or fir (studies done in Europe).

Stress can play havoc on your body in ways that you don’t realise.

Sometimes you may not even feel stressed, but your body will be telling you something different by the way that it’s coping with infections etc.. during a nature and forest walk you can increase your NK cells which decrease your stress hormones.

I knew then that Nature and Forest Therapy was something more than just sitting or strolling in nature. 

There is a real sense of connection and healing that happened for me and continues to happen to this day.