Women in the Woods event that took place on 8th & 9th May 2021. Based in private ancient woodlands in Sevenoaks, Kent. Bushcraft | Nature Connection | Sound Healing | Drum Circle www.wildeyeadventures.com/womeninthewoods Email: contact@wildeyeadventures.com to be added to the mailing list for future events.

Early morning bird song in woodlands

A walk through Wistmans Woods

It is scientifically proven that just staring at trees through a window can help to reduce stress and lower anxiety levels. So imagine the positive health benefits of being in an actual forest. The Japanese practice of "Shinrin yoku" aka Forest Bathing. Is positive for both physical and mental wellbeing. It is proven to reduce stress hormone production, improve feelings of happiness and free up creativity, as well as lower heart rate and blood pressure, boost the immune system and accelerate recovery from illness. “Social prescribing” and "nature therapy" is a growing movement in the NHS and can include volunteering, gardening, sports activities, cookery and befriending. Doctors in Scotland have now started to prescribe bird watching and hiking as a form of nature healing and therapy. “Forest bathing is an opportunity for people to take time out, slow down and connect with nature. We think it could be part of the mix of activities for social prescription,” Stuart Dainton of the Woodland Trust told the Observer. “Evidence about its benefits is building.” Shinrin-yoku was developed in the 1980s in Japan. Although people had been taking walks in the country’s forests for centuries, new studies showed that such activity could reduce blood pressure, lower cortisol levels and improve concentration and memory. A chemical released by trees and plants, called phytoncides, was found to boost the immune system. As more research highlighted the benefits of Shinrin-Yoku, the Japanese government incorporated it into the country’s health programme. Li - president of the Society for Forest Medicine in Japan, and the author of Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing – is a world expert and has conducted numerous studies. “It’s a preventative medicine, not a treatment,” he told the Observer. People spend their lives increasingly indoors, he said. About 80% of Japan’s population lives in urban areas, and the average American now spends more than 90% of their time indoors. But we are designed to be connected to the natural world, to “listen to the wind and taste the air” to hear the music of nature. We have been programmed otherwise but we always remember our true roots. Thanks for watching. Stay human. Go to nature. Wildeye Adventures leads forest bathing sessions in woodlands www.wildeyeadventures.com/shinrinyoku Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildeyeadventures Instagram: @wildeye_adventures https://www.instagram.com/wildeye_adventures Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatureWildeye

Women in the Woods gathering on the 15/06/2019 set in ancient woodlands in Sevenoaks, Kent. Led by Survival instructor Yara Ghrewati from Wildeye Adventures and Melonie Syrett aka The Drum Woman. Women in the Woods gathering is a women only outdoor event, that combines bushcraft & outdoor education with different sound healing methods. Practising fire skills, forest bathing, art & crafts, drumming and mindfulness in nature. For future events please stay connected via social media and check out the Wildeye Adventures website: www.wildeyeadventures.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildeyeadventures/?ref=bookmarks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildeye_adventures/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatureWildeye Music credits: Fragile by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Bz-2zlaJHGU • Track Info: Title: Fragile Artist: A Himitsu

#WildeyeAdventures presents Tree Planting in Sevenoaks. Short (1 minute) video sharing thoughts from some of the volunteers who planted trees on 1st December 2019. Around 100 volunteers gathered to plant 500 native broadleaf trees for the #WoodlandTrust's #BigClimateFightback campaign on farmland in #Shoreham in #Kent. #EveryTreeCounts www.wildeyeadventures.com/treeplanting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildeyeadven... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildeye_adv... Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatureWildeye Music by: Fraser & Toots | The World is Run by Trees https://soundcloud.com/fraserwin

Amazon adventures, working as a Survival Instructor in the rainforest in Brazil with Elite Survival Training teaching survival skills. Being in the rainforest activates a part inside you that may have been dormant and forgotten. What the tree breathes out, we breathe in. Our lungs even looks like trees. And if just one ancient tree can support life for up to 2000 different species of biodiversity, just imagine what a whole forest holds. The video includes voices from: Yara Ghrewati | Wildeye Adventures | Survival Instructor John Sullivan | Elite Survival Training | Explorer | Survival Instructor Dr. Mark Plotkin | Ethnobotanist | Founder of the Amazon Conservation Team | TED Speaker Joao De Silva | Born from an Amazonian tribe until he was 14 years old and now works as a guide in the Amazon in Brazil. Shaman Estaban | A medicine man born of a tribe in the Amazon The poem at the end... I saw this poem about 15 years ago written on a piece of paper, stuck on a bamboo wall in the jungles of Bukit Luang in Indonesia. I don't know who wrote it. But thank you to whoever did. I memorised it because I loved it so much. Wildeye Adventures website: https://www.wildeyeadventures.com/ Wildeye Adventures Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/wildeyeadven... Elite Survival Training website - http://www.elitesurvivaltraining.com/ If you wish to stand up for tribal cultures around the world please check out the work of Survival International campaigning for the tribal land & human rights. https://www.survivalinternational.org/ Stand up for Ancient Trees & Woodlands in the UK by supporting the work and missions of the Woodland Trust. UK's largest woodland conservation organisation. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/ Stand up for rainforests. Check out the work of: The Amazon Conservation Team: https://www.amazonteam.org/ Rainforest Alliance: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/ Rainforest Action Network: https://www.ran.org/ Support any organisation that is campaigning to protect tribal people, rainforests, woodlands and ancient trees. Once ancient habitat is lost, it cannot be replaced. Protect ecosystems which sustain and balance the circle of life and the survival of humanity. Protect nature, protect ourselves. Thank you for watching :)