Shinrin-yoku, the Japanese term for walking around in the woods that literally means “a forest bath” is a beautiful descriptor for what a hike should be—an opportunity to stroll through nature and wash off the stress of everyday life. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Shinrin-Yoku”
Grant, you know I’m a big hiker.
I’ve really fallen in love with hiking since I moved to San Diego.
And just give me a camelback and poles and I am off, right?
Nice, yeah.
And so I was delighted to find this term in Japanese, shinrin-yoku.
Shinrin-yoku.
Why is that familiar to me?
I think because maybe you saw it on my Facebook page.
Oh, maybe, yeah.
I was really excited when I discovered it.
It literally means forest bath.
That’s what you’re doing.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think specifically in Japanese, it may refer to a more contemplative kind of walking and taking in all the sensations than I actually do.
But I love that notion of a forest bath, you know, just sort of exfoliating all the stress from everyday life, right?
It reminds me of something in British English, which we don’t quite use in American English.
We think of hiking and hikers here, but in there they think of rambling and ramblers.
It’s a little, just far more common there than it is here.
And I love the notion that hiking sounds personal and rambling sounds, well, I’m just going to leave the house and let’s see what happens.
Kind of browsing.
Browsing nature, browsing the world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which literally goes back to the action of cows.
From one thing to the other.
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