"Heal in the Urban Forest and Enjoy~!"

Yangcheon-gu Health Healing Center Urban Forest Therapy 'Forest Journey' Participant Recruitment... Psychological healing programs such as forest therapy and forest meditation to foster positive emotions and cognitive transformation... Applications accepted from October 1 via Health Healing Culture Center website and office visit

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) operates a forest healing program called ‘Forest Journey’ (Creating leisure and happiness in the forest), which combines green spaces such as Anyangcheon Stream and forests with healing culture, throughout October to comfort residents exhausted from daily life at the Health Healing Culture Center, the district’s representative one-stop health and welfare complex facility.

‘Forest Journey’ is composed of healing content that can heal the mind, such as forest therapy and forest meditation. It is a healing project aimed at improving residents’ quality of life and cognitive transformation, and operates as an emotional care program that gently soothes tired minds, including ▲forest therapy for middle-aged men and women ▲forest therapy for seniors ▲forest therapy for families ▲autumn forest walking meditation.

One of the programs, forest therapy, is conducted directly by a certified forest therapy instructor and consists of activities such as ▲five-sense experiences on forest trails ▲walking barefoot on loess paths ▲foot reflexology massage.

Participants learn how to cultivate their body and mind comfortably and healthily in the forest space, moving away from one-sided, lecture-style classes. The forest therapy program will be held on October 16, 26, and 30 at Galsan Park and Anyangcheon Stream in Yangcheon-gu.

On October 19, an autumn forest walking meditation program for adults will be held at Jiyangsan Mountain. Through calm meditation in nature that awakens the five senses, it aims to relieve accumulated physical fatigue and mental stress, providing participants with a healing time.

This ‘Forest Journey’ program will be conducted face-to-face while strictly adhering to COVID-19 prevention guidelines such as wearing masks, temperature checks, registration, and social distancing. However, the schedule may change depending on the future COVID-19 situation.

Residents wishing to participate in the program can apply from October 1 via the Health Healing Culture Center website or by visiting in person. For more details, inquiries can be made to the Health Healing Center or checked on the Health Healing Culture Center website.

Kim Soo-young, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, said, “We have ambitiously prepared a healing program utilizing the district’s abundant green spaces to comfort residents exhausted by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic,” adding, “We will continue to consider the healing role of green spaces and arts and actively discover substantial programs that can be linked to residents’ health promotion.”

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