Shinrin-Yoku Series: Through the Seasons

Name: Shinrin-Yoku Series: Through the Seasons
Start: 2025-08-16T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-16T13:00:00-05:00
Location: N3941 Golf Course Rd, Brodhead, WI 53520

Schedule

Sat Aug 16 2025 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

N3941 Golf Course Rd, Brodhead, WI 53520 | Brodhead, WI

As the seasons and our surroundings change, so changes life. Through the Seasons Workshops are designed with you, Nature, and the Three Waters Reserve atmosphere in mind.
The Through the Seasons Workshop explores external and internal landscapes, and how tuning into Nature offers evidence-based and measurable health and wellbeing benefits, and creates openings for the new and unnoticed. You will come away feeling grounded, with new skills that create balance, connection and a deeper appreciation of your connection with Nature. Your experienced guides, Toni Maddi and Kate Bast, will lead you on each workshop.
Come with an open mind and curiosity.
Choose the 3x Through the Seasons ticket option and all three workshops and receive $60 off the full ticket price ($20 per workshop). A portion of all ticket sales supports conservation and maintenance at Three Waters Reserve and the Lower Sugar River Field Station. At each workshop you will receive a goodie bag, and be entered for a gift drawing.
Available Sessions:
🌱 May 24, 2025, 10:00am to 1:00pm
Spring Session: "Let It Go - The Art of Finding Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Space"
- Just as a garden grows lushly when it has room to spread out, so do our psyches. By decluttering and getting rid of objects, memories, and limiting beliefs that no longer serve us, we can expand and grow.
- We will explore journaling techniques and energy clearing indoors before we head out to experience the benefits of forest bathing.
☀️ August 16, 2025, 10:00am-1:00pm
Summer Session: "Community and Connection to Land, Self and Others"
- Are you suffering from Nature Deficit Disorder? We are less connected to the land than ever before due to increased screen time and more indoor activities. Urbanization has left us with fewer green spaces. This lack of exposure to the natural environment can result in our feeling disconnected not just from the land, but also ourselves and others.
- We will explore and connect with the different habitats at Three Waters Reserve with all our senses through forest bathing led by Kate Bast. We will ground ourselves and then create a mandala as a group using materials we find on the ground.
🍂 October 18, 2025, 10:00am-1:00pm
Fall Session: "A Multi-Sensory Experience in Nature"
- Feel where you and nature connect. Using sight, hearing, smell, touch, and even taste, we will explore Three Waters Reserve.
- We’ll start indoors listening to solfeggio tones (tones that are believed to have healing and spiritual properties). We’ll move onto discussing how scents can bring up powerful memories. Outdoors, we will notice various colors as the leaves change, touch plants, and end with our sense of taste in a unique tea ceremony led by Kate Bast.
❄️ February 2026, date TBD
Winter Session: "Discovering New Meaning in Your Stories of Nature"
- Without story, it is impossible to define our identity, meaning, and purpose. Yet, we can’t always see ourselves, let alone meaning, in our stories. By sharing them with others and allowing them to find amazement and even awe, we feel seen and heard. We can better understand who we are and the world we live in by exploring them.
- Each participant will share a brief story and then allow others to interpret it, connecting you and the land in a sacred way.