WOW Project: Bush Art & Forest Bathing with Lauren Riddel

🍃 Bush Art & Forest Bathing 🍃

Forest bathing is a practice that invites you to connect with yourself through nature. In this session, we will spend a few hours engaging each of the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch and sound) with our environment, as we practice mindfulness with community and pay respects to country.

Lauren Riddel has spent the last few years exploring ways to get people moving and spending time outdoors, whether through organised sport, events or guided hikes. Her aim has always been expanding and deepening our relationship with both our bodies and the natural world we live in. Working within the outdoor education sector, with local councils, sporting bodies and in guiding; she has come to realise that to have that positive relationship with the natural environment we must begin first with ourselves. Taking a deeper dive into both Adventure Therapy and the benefits of connection to our body through its senses in Zenthai Shiatsu. She has combined what she has learned with her passion for outdoor adventures and looks forward to facilitating this space with you.

🌞 Equipment: Bring a water bottle, comfortable shoes and clothes.

⚡️ Meeting point: Meet at the bottom of the Pines Campground, by the communal sink.

🌟 Accessibility: All abilities welcome, beginner friendly activity involving some explorative walking and sitting.

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⛰ WOW Project (Women's Outdoor Wellness Project) is an event for local women to connect with the outdoors and each other, across Natimuk & Dyuritte.

It includes a multi-day program for you to try a range of activities, which you can book free of charge or opt to donate an amount of your choosing to Friends of Arapiles.

All donations will be made to Friends of Arapiles, a non-profit group run by volunteers who raise money to care for the mountain and are passionate about landcare education.

⚡️ Instagram: @wowproject2024
⚡️ Website: www.climbingqts.com/wow-project-2024

🖤 We acknowledge the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples (collectively Wotjobaluk) of Dyuritte, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we will gather. As Indigenous and non-Indigenous people together we have a sense of the importance of the country upon which we are standing, where exploration has taken place over many thousands of years. Let us sense the land where we will meet, learn and play, acknowledge to whom it belongs and pay our respects to their Elders and all Elders, past and present.

💚 WOW Project is proudly funded by the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, West Wimmera Health Service and The North Face. It is auspiced by ACT Natimuk and will be delivered by ClimbingQTs in partnership alongside Melbourne Climbing School/The Climbing Company.