Blue Zones Project Petaluma: Sensory Awareness Forest Walk Series (Moai)

Join us in this 10-week series of sensory-oriented strolls on paved trails through Westridge Park. Participants will check in at a beautiful garden, and then enjoy individual slow walks in nature, with a different sensory emphasis for each session.

This program will be limited 10 participants.

DETAILS:

• 11 - 11:15am: Arrive and Check-In
• 11:15am - 12:15pm: Sensory Awareness Stroll
• 12:15 - 12:30pm: Closing Remarks in Garden
• Address: 128 Sunshine Ct, Petaluma, CA 94952
• Parking: Free street parking
• Ages: All ages welcome (we will be walking approx .5 mile on a paved trail)
• Pets: No pets please
• Advance Contact: [email protected]
• What To Bring: Water bottle, comfortable walking shoes/clothes, and weather-dependent additional gear such as hat, sunglasses and layers.

BENEFITS OF SENSORY AWARENESS WALKS:

• Cultivating mindfulness and being present in the moment
• Enhancing the experience of taking walks in nature
• Reducing anxiety and calming the hyperactive mind
• Incorprating healthy deep breathing on daily walks

About Your Facilitator:

As a naturalist, Bruce Elliott has led countless groups on forest inmersion walks . As an art history professor, his most recent lifelong-learning course was entitled "Experiencing Nature As Art - The Cultivation of Perception".

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SPONSORSHIP

This program is generously sponsored thanks to our Blue Zones Project Petaluma sponsors: Healthy Petaluma District and Foundation, The City of Petaluma and Providence Petaluma Valley Hospital.

Host or Publisher Blue Zones Project Petaluma