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Posted 3 years ago by fru

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🌈fru molnar, nature therapy guide, student of the trees, mystic
📍the liminal space / lenapehoking
come and sit. we will hold space for you.
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FOREST BATHS
we made it to spring we made it to spring
thank you for coming out to play in the snow with thank you for coming out to play in the snow with us yesterday ✨ your inner children and fireside adventure stories created the most enchanting winter afternoon we could’ve dreamed up. more otherworld play journeys soon... until then (and always!) don’t forget to give yourself permission to be foolish!
✨✨✨2025 calendars are here ✨✨✨ . as al ✨✨✨2025 calendars are here ✨✨✨
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as always, 50% of proceeds go directly to the lenape center 🙏🏼
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happy new year xoxo
hands up if you love the snow too!!!* come with m hands up if you love the snow too!!!*

come with me to trot out to the woods and gather some bits and bobs to decorate a yule log for a lil solstice ritual by the fire 🌲

here’s your invitation to light a candle and invoke the old gods, sing to the forest spirits, and embrace the tender new winter season with your most tender new winter heart. ❤️‍🔥 

happy solstice with all my love to all of you. 

*lighters up if you love 160 remixes of classic holiday tunes @markwoodyard 

📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼

#wintersolstice #solstice #yulelog #yule #forestbathing #solsticeritual #paganritual #druidritual #oakgod #foresttherapy #naturetherapy #forestspirits #wintermagic #forestmagic #naturemagic #linusandlucy
Once and Future by Desdamona @desdamonarox We pa Once and Future by Desdamona @desdamonarox 

We painted dawn into midnight 
Out of cement ceilings 
we made skylights 
From gravel, we crafted fine and delicate chandeliers 
hung them with fishing line 
so they appeared to float in midair 
We turned copper piping into rings 
Venus circling our fingers 
the oxidation turned our digits green 
our limbs transforming 
into ferns and orchids 
We breathed and our condensation 
Created clouds 
Our tears fed the sea 
We prayed to all the living things 
We sat in silence with the trees 
Our feet rooting into the ground 
To touch the highest energy 
The evergreens and us 
We breathed in tandem 
And inside our lungs 
Sprung a forest of veins 
Mimicking their cousins’ limbs 
We sprouted two intricate flowers 
In our minds 
For the left and right hemispheres 
And we hung our thoughts there 
Believing that the petals would keep them safely tucked away 
We recognized ourselves 
Didn’t need mirrors to see our likeness 
Even the dirt felt like us 
The sand, our bones in a trillion pieces 
We walked atop these beaches 
Sinking in, their legacy holding us 
There was silence 
and we were not afraid 
There was peace 
And we were not anxious 
There was a world 
We did not conquer
✨monday moodboard ✨who’s up and ready to des ✨monday moodboard ✨who’s up and ready to destroy a golf course with me today??
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slide 2 nimity.online, slide 5 @memeforaging
it’s been a busy season for forest bathing so i it’s been a busy season for forest bathing so i wanted to take a moment to share some highlights from the last few months and reflect on how deeply grateful i feel to be able to guide you all on these journeys into the inner and outer worlds, through portals of relating with more-than-human beings. as always, my intention for all of our walks is collective liberation for all beings, and i truly believe that starting from a point of re-membering our innate belonging and wholeness is the most heartful and soulful way toward that goal. thank you all for your presence on these experiences and in the world - your hearts give this guide a felt sense of hope in a world that often feels overwhelmingly broken. let’s keep going, together. 
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📍lenape, wappinger, schagticoke, mohican, cayuse, umatilla, walla walla, chinook, wahkiakum, grand ronde, siletz lands 🙏🏼 
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thank you @garrisoninstitute @olanafredericchurch @elkenmist @omegainstitute @stormkingartcenter 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #naturetherapy #forestbathing #forestbathingguide #shinrinyoku #naturetherapyguide #foresttherapyguide #anft
happy friday, beautiful little beings in my phone. happy friday, beautiful little beings in my phone. here’s some inspiration to get outside this weekend and merge with some moss or maybe a creek, and to do it with your full chest 😤
highlights from this past weekend’s guided fores highlights from this past weekend’s guided forest bathing walk with mother earth @olanafredericchurch - thank you to all the humans who came out and shared their experience with open hearts, and to the beings of the more-than-human world who guided us along our way through these pathways toward belonging and wholeness. this event felt so special for a number of reasons, including that my mom was able to attend for the first time 💞 thank you to all of our mothers, both human and earthkin, for giving us life. thank you to the wonderful folks at Olana for bringing us all together. until next time 🌱
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📍schagticoke and mohican land 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #forestbathing #forestbathingguide #foresttherapyguide #shinrinyoku #naturetherapy #naturetherapyguide #gratitude #motherearth
assorted moods from the last week - raging against assorted moods from the last week - raging against the machine, thankful for new growth, finding community around fires, slowing down to notice small precious moments, and sending wishes up through the dandelions. been needing quiet time in the trees more than usual lately, anyone else?
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#freepalestine #resist #nomowmay #forestbathing #foresttherapy #earthsong #naturetherapy
sometimes it can feel like a lot of pressure to ma sometimes it can feel like a lot of pressure to mark celebrations (like beltane) with the perfect combination of altar items, offerings, blessings, spells, etc. here’s an invitation to build your own intuitive ritual with whatever calls to you most, on any day of the week, for any reason at all. here are the steps i took for mine, but the only step that matters is to listen to your heart and let it guide you (the rest will follow, because nature always provides). allow yourself to be transported to a place of full presence, and know that the world will be transported by it too. 🌸🌼
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #forestritual #beltaneritual #beltaneblessings #beltane #natureritual #natureconnection #naturealtar #forestbathing #shinrinyoku #naturetherapy
let’s walk together. 💚❤️🤍 solidarity w let’s walk together. 💚❤️🤍 solidarity with the resistors, the rebuilders, the students, the olive groves and the old growth forests, the teachers, the waters, the fires, the air, and most of all the earth. 
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#freepalestine #foresttherapy #forestbathing #naturetherapy #riverwisdom #waterwisdom #geneenmariehaugen #resistance
moodboard of the rolling earth. invitation: next moodboard of the rolling earth. 

invitation: next time you notice a mystery, resist the temptation to find an answer. lean into the not-knowing. how does it change your experience of the moment? how might it change the way you relate to the world? 
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #forestbathing #shinrinyoku #naturetherapy #naturememes #nature #earthweek #landback #morethanhumanworld #mysteries #waltwhitman
every day is earth day. here’s an invitation to every day is earth day. here’s an invitation to honor our home today:

1. find a place to sit and take some time to be with all the beings there. notice where your heart is pulling you. 
2. mindfully gather anything that makes you feel something. 
3. taking your time, arrange in a way that feels true to you. 
4. offer this to the land with thanks. 
5. remember all that she offers us. 
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#earthday #forestbathing #earthaltar #naturealtar #naturemandala #natureinvitation #earthday2024 #earthdayeveryday #naturetherapy #foresttherapy
i believe that every moment of reconnection with e i believe that every moment of reconnection with earth is a portal to wholeness, a portal to reciprocity, a portal to Love. here are some portals i’ve encountered recently, from as far as joshua tree to as near as the compost in the backyard. 

when we share our portals of connection, we open into deeper ways of knowing one another, deeper ways of understanding that we are one and the same. tell me about your portals, and i’ll tell you about your magic. 
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📍lenapehoking, yuhaaviatam/maarenga’yam 🙏🏼
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#portal #portals #natureconnection #forestbathing #foresttherapy #naturetherapy #forestbathing
today in honor of the spring equinox i’m making today in honor of the spring equinox i’m making a test batch of dandelion root tea for our forest bathing experience this saturday 🌱 come join us and taste it — and the forest — for yourself. all are welcome. 
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#dandelionroot #dandelionroottea #dandelion #dandelionmedicine #dandeliontea #foresttherapy #naturetherapy #forestbathing #shinrinyoku #springequinox
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER: we’re moving this to S POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER: we’re moving this to SATURDAY APRIL 6 at 12pm 💚
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spring is coming and with it, new life again 💛 let’s get up close and personal with tender young ephemerals, and welcome fresh colors and textures back to the landscape. save the date for our next guided forest bathing session on saturday, march 23 🌱
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #naturetherapy #forestbathing #guidedforestbathing #naturewalk #forestbathingguide #naturetherapyguide #shinrinyoku #foresttherapyguide #guidednaturetherapy #daffodils #springephemerals #crocuses #crocus #daffodil
today is imbolc, when we mark the midpoint between today is imbolc, when we mark the midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox. lighting a candle for you all tonight, to welcome the longer days and nurture the promise of spring. 🕯️ and lighting another, as i do every night, for a #freepalestine.

excerpts from the february edition of our Forest News e-newsletter here. link in bio to read more or to sign up ✨

and join us on saturday 2/10 for our next guided nature therapy session 🌲

📍 lenapehoking 🙏🏻 

#imbolc #midwinter #lenapehoking #foresttherapy #forestbathing #foresttherapyguide #forestbathingguide #naturetherapy #naturetherapyguide #shinrinyoku #maryoliver
tend to your inner fires, friends. then go to @pro tend to your inner fires, friends. then go to @protectpalestineorg and find an action near you for this next week 🍉
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #naturetherapy #freepalestine #forestbathing #forestbathingguide #firestarter #troublemaker #goodtrouble #prodigy #theprodigy #fireplace #fire #firesign
the new moon has me feeling sentimental today, so the new moon has me feeling sentimental today, so here’s a story. 

the first slide is little fru enjoying nature on a family roadtrip to the florida keys in the 90s. cut to october 2023 and i’ve been asked to lead a members’ walk at the epic @omegainstitute - but the forecast calls for heavy rain and none of my jackets will cut it, so i run out to get a new one before heading up to their campus. 

only after i got these photos back did the synchronicity of the rainjackets remind me that time is a flat spiral — and that dreams can come true. 

thank you to the team @omegainstitute for giving me a chance to make little fru proud. i can’t wait to be back this spring! 💚
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📍lenapehoking 🙏🏼
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#foresttherapy #omegainstitute #foresttherapyguide #forestbathing #forestbathingguide #shinrinyoku #naturetherapy #naturetherapyguide
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