Supporting students and community with effective and restorative centering skills.
About Us
We are a passionate and committed group of certified restorative nature therapy practitioners dedicated to empowering young people and their caregivers with an embodied set of skills and tools that deepen our connection to nature. These tools have been developed in response to a need to help the community regulate during the ongoing challenges in today’s fast paced technology driven lives.
Our restorative nature therapy practitioners are based in Sonoma County, California, and are dedicated to providing our community with the skills and awarenesses to balance against the challenges of the fast pace and stressors of our current lives, especially for our youth.
With nature guiding our mission, NWC has developed a scientific and physiology based school program that supports effective self calming skills in relationship with nature, and its beneficial influence on our physical and emotional wellbeing.
What We Do
Our experiential sessions are offered on campus and on trail in an engaging format modified for each grade level. These nature practices can be used in any setting e.g. schoolyard, backyard, or park, making them easily accessible at any time. Time spent consciously connecting to nature helps to balance our current state of device and sensory overload and nature deprivation, and towards more connection, grounding and an increased ability to navigate and regulate our emotional wellbeing.
Who We Serve
We are dedicated to supporting students and the community with embodied self regulation skills. Enhancing our ability to inspire calm, cognition and creativity which can help to restore balance in their everyday lives.
Our goal is to promote an awareness of how these simple and accessible nature and sensory based skills can support the students, staff and family; and for these principles to become a common coping methodology at school, at home and in the community.
How We Do It
Utilizing the decades of scientific research and increased awareness developed in the Japanese Shinrin Yoku practice, we offer experiential and nature related sensory engagement; breathing techniques, movement and presence awareness. Through grade appropriate, on-campus and on-trail sessions, we enable students to individually experience and deepen their own relationship to nature and the nature of their wellness.
The Beneficial Aspects
As we live in such a fast-paced and technology driven world, our innate and personal connection to nature can feel distant or lost. By consciously connecting with nature on a regular basis, you can help your body and mind cope with the stresses of the everyday world. The levels of stress and anxiety that permeate our society are at the heart of what this practice speaks to. Offering your body and mind respite and the opportunity to access effective coping skills as individuals as well as for the family.