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PAuse, breathe, listen
A FOREST BATHING GUIDE DECK
PAUSE. BREATHE, LISTEN
Is an Invitation to Experience the Living World Through Your Senses
A field guide is traditionally used to identify what we encounter in the natural world. It helps us recognize birds by their songs, trees by their leaves, and wildflowers by their petals.
This field guide serves a different purpose.
It is not designed to help you identify the forest.
It is designed to help you experience it.
Within this deck are fifty contemplative questions; that invite you to slow down and awaken your five senses—seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting—not as separate experiences, but as pathways into presence.
Each inquiry is an invitation rather than an assignment.
There are no correct answers, no destinations to reach, and no expectations that every prompt will resonate. Some questions may stay with you for only a moment. Others may accompany you for years.
$55
50 Card Contemplative Field Guide to enhance your walk in nature
A linen carry pouch
and a playlist to enjoy on your travels
Plus $5 Flat shipping rate in the continental united states
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Pre-orders will ship the end of July or early August 2026.
be the explorer and witness
Forest Bathing is not a hike measured by distance or time. It is the practice of allowing the forest to become your teacher. By moving slowly and giving your complete attention to the life unfolding around you, something equally important begins to unfold within you.
This guide asks you to become both explorer and witness.
To notice the texture of bark as carefully as the texture of your thoughts.
To hear birdsong with the same curiosity you offer your own inner voice.
To discover that every walk through the forest is also a walk into yourself.
Pause
Breathe
listen
The invitations are organized through the five senses, offering a simple path into embodied awareness. Each sense is represented through icon at the top and bottom of the cards.
The cards are not meant to be completed in order or all at once. You may spend an entire walk with a single query, return to the same prompt through different seasons, or allow the forest itself to choose the invitation that calls to you.
“Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.” — Eckhart Tolle
Because you are.
Over time, you may notice that the questions begin to change.
Not because the words are different.
Because you are.
May this guide remind you that nature is not something you visit.
It is something you belong to.
“Silence is also a conversation.”
— Ramana Maharshi
Walk slowly.
Listen deeply.
Receive generously.
Return often.
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Ben Brown
Sound practitioner
Ben Brown is a sound practitioner, visual artist, and New York State-licensed massage therapist whose work resides at the intersection of art, healing, and ancestral resonance. Blending vibrational sound, visual expression, and conscious experiences, Ben creates immersive offerings that provide refuge from social-emotional isolation and invite the mind and body into deeper states of presence, spaciousness, and awareness.
Guided by the belief that sound art unites inner wisdom and collective memory, Ben crafts listening environments emphasizing the felt sense of vibration and its capacity to recalibrate consciousness and the nervous system. His method explores how frequencies and our senses reconnect us to intuition and the innate wisdom embedded in our bodies.
Ben offers individual and group sound meditations and self-care workshops. He currently practices in New York City and the Hudson Valley, NY.