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YASEI SHINRIN YOKU COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE CERTIFICATION REGISTRATION
Distance Learning Registration Cost
Regular Fee: $580.00 Canadian Dollars
Special: $480.00 until September 21, 2025
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Growing your Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification
You can grow your Guide Certification and become a Practitioner which will allow you to deliver our 12 Session Forest Therapy Program. We understand that as a Forest Therapy Guide you are challenged which trying to retain your clients for return visits. Currently the largest segment of Forest Therapy clients are those who become a “one-off client”. It’s this dynamic that has plagued ecotourism and nature-based guiding for decades. At the Wildcraft Forest School we have developed a 12 session Forest Therapy program where clients have a more enhanced opportunity to follow through with nature-based healing with your guidance.
You can now become a Practitioner and we will deduct the Distance Learning Registration Fee that you have paid, which will allow you to enroll in the Practitioner Training Program.
Register now so that we can reserve your space where training programs are offered every month from May to September.
Wild Forest Therapy Winter Tookit
If you have been a past participant in our Guide or Practitioner Programs and you would like to receive “Wild Forest Therapy Winter Tookit” you can register today and begin the program on the 15th of the following month. The winter program will help you to continue your practice during the late autumn and winter months and includes print material, videos and question and answer sessions.
It doesn’t matter how much snow is on the ground, or how long the winter is, your Yasei Shinrin Yoku practice does not have to be put on hold.
Register now at $180 (Canadian Dollars)
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Nature is returning as a key element within the human spiritual experience. Don Elzer talks about how Yasei Shinrin Yoku delivers a practice where-by we create a working relationship with nature through stewardship.
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Comprehensive Guide Certification
Comprehensive Guide Certification training in Forest Therapy through Distance Learning that includes all four certification stages plus a strategic planning process
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Comprehensive Guide Certification Training represents the highest level of Guide Certification which includes all four basic levels of Guide Training. This advanced level of Guide Certification builds on aspects for delivering a Yasei Shinrin Yoku practice including health and wellness trends and creating your own business case for a practice through a Yasei Guide Strategy Kit and online conference. This process includes tools and trends that will help Guides create and sustain a practice as a Forest Therapy Guide. This Comprehensive Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification allows one to move easily into our advanced 12 Session Yasei Shinrin Yoku Practitioners Certification Training.
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Our connection to nature is embedded within our DNA, the forest provides us with all the psychological and chemical attributes needed to live healthy lives – but our challenge is to learn how to reconnect with the living forest. Shinrin Yoku is Japanese for “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere” this popular Japanese therapy represents a new form of nature-based healing.
Yasei Shinrin Yoku or “Taking in the Wild Forest Atmosphere” considers the expansion of our health, purpose and well-being as being directly related to the work that we do for the benefit of the forest – the practice considers that we and the forest are “one” and that through this presence the true natural balance of energy can be achieved that benefits both the individual and the natural world. If we invest in the health and growth of the forest then the forest will invest in us – the medium of exchange is “life-force”.
Shinrin Yoku was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a building block for preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Researchers primarily in Japan and South Korea have established an extensive body of scientific literature on the health benefits of spending time under the canopy of a living forest. In addition, the Wildcraft Forest School has explored and catalogued experiences and research based on the delivery of forest therapy programs over many years.
All programs include a Deciduous Forest Toolkit which helps Guides and Practitioners navigate Forest therapy in areas where a Conifer Forest is lacking. Yasei Shinrin Yoku combines the healing abilities presented by the natural world with spiritual and environmental stewardship and incorporates wildcrafting, which includes a tangible understanding of the sentient forest.
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification provides participants with an opportunity to set up an independent practice and provides support for advancing towards Practitioner Certification which provides skills for delivering a Yasei 12-session program and establishing a Yasei Sanctuary Forest. This learning program provides an understanding of wilderness therapies and forms of wildcrafting-based nutri-ecopsychology. Upon satisfactory completion of program levels, participants will receive Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification, which can assist them in both career and self-employment endeavors especially suited for alternative health services, the spiritual arts, theology, energy work, education, food, nutrition and outdoor recreation.
Program Details
Level 1 Section
- Basic Understanding of Forest Therapy
- Introduction to the Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guiding Program
- Creating Relationships with Nature
- Applied Sciences and Historical Context
- Plants and Ecology Studies
- Developing a Sense of Place in Nature
- Basic Forest Therapy Exercises and Meditations
- Examination of Methodologies within Conifer and Deciduous Forests
Level 2 Section
- Basic Understanding of Nature-based Energy
- Energy Work and Nature Communication
- Applied Sciences and Historical Context
- Understanding Biosemiotics
- Mother Tree Connections
- Basic Forest Therapy Exercises and Meditations
- Examination of Methodologies within Conifer and Deciduous Forests
Level 3 Section
- Basic Understanding of Biotics and Abiotics as they relate to Forest Therapy
- Planning Safe and Effective Forest Therapy Pathways
- Putting Botany and Ancient Land-based Wisdom into Action
- Applied Sciences and Historical Context
- Understanding Deep Ecology and Stewardship
- Earthing Methods
- Pathfinder Forest Therapy Exercises and Meditations
- Examination of Methodologies within Conifer and Deciduous Forests
Level 4 Section
- Basic Understanding of Meditiation and Breathwork as they relate to Forest Therapy
- Planning Safe and Effective Forest Therapy Rest and Sleep Exercises
- Forest Therapy during the Day and Night
- Effective and Natural Red-light Therapy
- Understanding Circadian Rhythmus
- Applied Sciences and Historical Context
- Creating a Business Plan for Your Practice
- Level 4 Forest Therapy Exercises and Meditations
- Examination of Methodologies within Conifer and Deciduous Forests
Yasei Strategy Section
- Creating a Vision: Who am I as a Guide?
- Creating a Profile for the Market and Business
- Seasonal Issues
- Understanding the Community and Trends
- A SWOT Analysis
- Finding Clients and Marketing Methods
- Capacity Issues
- Stewardship Actions
- Measuring Success and Next Steps
Additional Features in this Training Program
- This program offers self-guided lesson packages that include the “Science you Need to Know” and various tools and video support.
- This program includes a Deciduous Forest Toolkit and a Conifer Forest Toolkit specific to each level of training.
- This program includes scheduled video conferences as well as personal online or phone support when required.
- Registration also includes a Wildcraft Forest School Membership which offers additional free learning services and discounts to in-person events at the Wildcraft Forest.
Timeframes
We will start your program within one week of your registration. Program materials will be delivered by email.
Each certification level is self-guided and it is possible to complete each level within 30 days however the average completion period is 60 days. There is also additional time required for the school to review your work in advance of issuing a certificate. For this overall program it can be completed within 4 months but often takes a year. You can pause the program at any time and pick it up at a later date.
- It should be noted that upon your satisfactory completion of each level or section you will receive that level of certification, so you are practicing while you are learning.
Upon completion of this program, participants can advance to Practitioners Training if they choose, if so their Comprehensive Guide Registration Fee will be deducted from the Practitioners Training Registration Fee. Please note that registration fee credits are adjusted if “specials” are being offered.
