Forest Therapy Sessions 2026

Registration Required - $40 per person

Introduction to Forest Therapy

Saturday June 6, 1:00-3:00pm - Pinafore Park
Saturday July 4, 1:00-3:00pm - Waterworks Park

Forest Therapy Immersive Experience

Saturday May 30th 1:00-3:00pm - Solitude Nature Preserve
Saturday July 11, 11:00-1:00pm - Solitude Nature Preserve
Sunday August 23, 1:00- 300pm - Solitude Nature Preserve

Reserve your spot!

Herb / Plant Identification Walks

First Saturday 11am; Second Monday 6pm; Third Tuesday 6pm

Registration Recommended $10*

Saturday May 2, 11:00am - Waterworks Park, Lg Pond beside Parking lot
Monday May 11, 6:00pm - Pinafore Park, Lyon's Pavilion
Tuesday May 19, 6:00pm - Waterworks Park, Lg Pong beside Parking lot
Saturday June 6, 11:00am - Pinafore Park, Lyon's Pavilion
Monday June 8, 6:00pm - Pinafore Park, Waterfall Feature
Tuesday June 16, 6:00pm - Waterworks Park, Lg Pond beside Parking lot
Saturday July 4, 11:00am - Waterworks Park, Lg Pond beside Parking lot
Monday July 13, 6:00pm- Pinafore Park, Waterfall feature
Tuesday July 21, 6:00pm Waterworks Park, Lg Pond beside Parking lot
Monday Aug 10, 6:00pm- Pinafore Park, Waterfall feature
Tuesday Aug 18, 6:00pm Waterworks Park, Lg Pond beside Parking lot

*If no one is registered walks may be cancelled with no notice. Registering allows me to connect with those planning to attend with any changes.

The website registration will require you to enter a credit card (but will not charge it) as it is used for my clinic services. To avoid this you can registration is available by reaching out with an e-transfer to connect@ashleyparkwellness.ca with your full name and an email address in the message box.

Offerings

Forest Therapy

A guide takes you on an immersive, interactive, and experiential nature tour, where you'll engage your senses to embrace the beauty of the natural surroundings. The walk is uniquely designed with a series of invitations to engage with nature. Ends with a snack and tea ceremony with a tea plant from the trail.

1-3 hours

1-15 participants

Earthing & Tea Meditations

An Earthing Session is a guided grounding meditation for relaxation and stress reduction. Earthing, also referred to as grounding, is a simply making of physical connection between the electrical frequencies of the human body with that of the Earth's in a mindful way.

Tea Mediations guide participants though a mindful experience taking in nature through the sense of taste. All plants are local, wild, or native to our bioregion.

30 min-1.5 hours

1-15 participants

Herbal/Foraging Education

Learn to identify, harvest, and prepare wild foods and edibles. Ethical foraging for food and/or medicinal plants is a skill all our ancestors knew well and it is all the rage, but many are forgetting the fundamental principles that will allow these plants to be available for generations to come.

1-3 hours

1- 25 participants

Reiki & Plant Spirit Medicine in Nature

Reiki & Plant Spirit Medicine work with Universal Life Force Energy. Having a session in a natural setting enhances the experience for you with the added benefits provided by nature. Nature will present what is needed for you at that time, in that place. One plant or a few, enjoy a quiet session or choose to blend with a guided experience with a plant.

1-3 hours

1- 8 participants

Meet Your Guide

Ashley Park is a Holistic Wellness & Nature & Forest Therapy Practitioner with training as an Herbalist, Reiki Master / Teacher, Foundations of Therapeutic Touch, Forest Gardener, and Certified Nature Connect & Forest Therapy Guide.

With over 20 years of working with vulnerable individuals in Mental Health, Addiction, Corrections, and Development organizations with children, youth , & adults, Ashley has experienced the systemic and cultural barriers to the needs of the community. Wanting to be part of the prevention and solution, she now creates herbal-based self-care and medicinal products from organic, locally sourced products for her family, friends, and clients. She has recently opened her doors to a private in-home practice offering individualized services custom to her client's constitutional needs. With her energetic elemental worldview, she is able to assess and understand imbalances within a person and guide them through lifestyle changes to begin to bring balance back to the body, mind, and spirit of the individual.

She was born and raised among the sumacs on hillsides in St Thomas Ontario and exploring the sand cliffs of Lake Erie and hopes to support others in healing the Earth, and themselves through nature.