Die Naturtherapie Shinrin Yoku, manchmal auch als Ökotherapie, Waldtherapie, Waldbaden, Erdung, Erdung oder Sami Lok bezeichnet, ist eine Praxis zur Behandlungen und Verbesserung der geistigen oder körperlichen Gesundheit.
Die Naturtherapie ist sehr gut erforscht und kann individuell den Bedürfnissen der Teilnehmer angepasst werden. Es kann mit einem ganzheitlichen Coaching verbunden werden oder zur Lösung konkreter Störungen eingesetzt werden. Wichtig ist eine kluge Begleitung bei den ersten Waldbegegnungen. Hier wird grundsätzliches Wissen vermittelt, mit welchen Methoden und Praktiken man sich dem Naturraum nähern kann. Die Hingabe wird, ebenso wie die Aufmerksamkeit, erlernt und geübt. Das Selbstvertrauen wird unbedingt gestärkt. Alles was hier, in Stille und im Kleinen getan wird, wird im Schutzraum des Waldes getan. Der Wald beschützt, behütet, ist weich und sanft und uns freundlich gesinnt.
Studien
2021
- Greenspace Interventions, Stress and Cortisol: A Scoping Review.
- The Psychological and Physical Effects of Forests on Human Health: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.
- Nature Exposure and Its Effects on Immune System Functioning: A Systematic Review.
2020
- The Interrelationship of Shinrin-Yoku and Spirituality: A Scoping Review.
- Mindfulness and Shinrin-Yoku: Potential for Physiological and Psychological Interventions during Uncertain Times.
- Effects of forest bathing on pre-hypertensive and hypertensive adults: a review of the literature.
- Therapeutic Potential of Volatile Terpenes and Terpenoids from Forests for Inflammatory Diseases.
- Current Development Status of Forest Therapy in China.
2019
- Medical empirical research on forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku): a systematic review.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Nature-Based Mindfulness: Effects of Moving Mindfulness Training into an Outdoor Natural Setting.
- Effects of forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) on levels of cortisol as a stress biomarker: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- A comparative study of the physiological and psychological effects of forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku) on working age people with and without depressive tendencies.
- Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing.
- Psycho-Physiological Stress Recovery in Outdoor Nature-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of the Past Eight Years of Research.
- A Review of Field Experiments on the Effect of Forest Bathing on Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability.
- Urban Nature Experiences Reduce Stress in the Context of Daily Life Based on Salivary Biomarkers.
- Effects of Walking in a Forest on Young Women.
2018
- Health effects of a forest environment on natural killer cells in humans: an observational pilot study.
- Effects of Walking in Bamboo Forest and City Environments on Brainwave Activity in Young Adults.
- Additive Benefits of Twice Forest Bathing Trips in Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure.
- Physiological Effects of Visual Stimulation with Forest Imagery.
2017
- Blood pressure-lowering effect of Shinrin-yoku (Forest bathing): a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Effects of Short Forest Bathing Program on Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Mood States in Middle-Aged and Elderly Individuals.
- Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy: A State-of-the-Art Review.
- Terpenes from Forests and Human Health.
- The Salutary Influence of Forest Bathing on Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure.
2016
- Physiological Effects of Nature Therapy: A Review of the Research in Japan.
- Effects of Forest Bathing on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Parameters in Middle-Aged Males.
- Everything just seems much more right in nature‘: How veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder experience nature-based activities in a forest therapy garden.
- Health Effect of Forest Bathing Trip on Elderly Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
2015
- Physiological and Psychological Effects of a Forest Therapy Program on Middle-Aged Females.
- Relief of Chronic Posterior Neck Pain Depending on the Type of Forest Therapy: Comparison of the Therapeutic Effect of Forest Bathing Alone Versus Forest Bathing With Exercise.
- Physiological and Psychological Effects of a Walk in Urban Parks in Fall.
- Elucidation of a Physiological Adjustment Effect in a Forest Environment: A Pilot Study.
- Effect of forest walking on autonomic nervous system activity in middle-aged hypertensive individuals: a pilot study.
- The Prefrontal Cortex Activity and Psychological Effects of Viewing Forest Landscapes in Autumn Season.
- Physiological and psychological effects of forest therapy on middle-aged males with high-normal blood pressure.
- Acute Effects of Exposure to a Traditional Rural Environment on Urban Dwellers: A Crossover Field Study in Terraced Farmland.
2014
- Emotional, restorative and vitalizing effects of forest and urban environments at four sites in Japan.
- Physiological and psychological responses of young males during spring-time walks in urban parks.
- Physiological and psychological effects of viewing forest landscapes in a seated position in one-day forest therapy experimental model.
- Influence of forest therapy on cardiovascular relaxation in young adults.
- Physiological and psychological effects of walking in stay-in forest therapy.
- Forest medicine research in Japan.
- Possibility of clinical applications of forest medicine.
2013
- Physiological and psychological effects of walking on young males in urban parks in winter.
- Effect of the forest environment on physiological relaxation using the results of field tests at 35 sites throughout Japan.
- Effect of the forest environment on blood glucose.
2012
- Therapeutic effect of forest bathing on human hypertension in the elderly.
- Effects of short-term forest bathing on human health in a broad-leaved evergreen forest in Zhejiang Province, China.
2011
- Physiological benefits of forest environment: based on field research at 4 sites.
- Psychological relaxation effect of forest therapy: results of field experiments in 19 forests in Japan involving 228 participants.
- No association between the frequency of forest walking and blood pressure levels or the prevalence of hypertension in a cross-sectional study of a Japanese population.
- Acute effects of walking in forest environments on cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
- Effect of forest bathing on physiological and psychological responses in young Japanese male subjects.
2010
- A day trip to a forest park increases human natural killer activity and the expression of anti-cancer proteins in male subjects.
- Effect of forest bathing trips on human immune function.
- The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing): evidence from field experiments in 24 forests across Japan.
- Trends in research related to „Shinrin-yoku“ (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing) in Japan.
2009
2008
- Phytoncides (Wood Essential Oils) Induce Human Natural Killer Cell Activity.
- Relationships Between Percentage of Forest Coverage and Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) of Cancers in all Prefectures in Japan.
- A forest bathing trip increases human natural killer activity and expression of anti-cancer proteins in female subjects.
- Visiting a forest, but not a city, increases human natural killer activity and expression of anti-cancer proteins.
2007
- Forest bathing enhances human natural killer activity and expression of anti-cancer proteins.
- Physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the atmosphere of the forest) in an old-growth broadleaf forest in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
- Physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the atmosphere of the forest)–using salivary cortisol and cerebral activity as indicators.
- Psychological effects of forest environments on healthy adults: Shinrin-yoku (forest-air bathing, walking) as a possible method of stress reduction.
2006
- The effects of exercise in forest and urban environments on sympathetic nervous activity of normal young adults.
- Phytoncides (wood essential oils) induce human natural killer cell activity.