04 / Forest Bathing & Ecological Work
A trail that became a wider path.
A place-based practice of embodiment, attention, belonging, and reciprocal relationship with the living world.
Acadiana · 2021
Acadiana’s first permanent, self-guided forest-bathing trail
Kathryn co-created and led the development of the original trail at Acadiana Park Nature Station—a free community resource designed to invite a slower, more embodied relationship with the living world.
She wrote its ten mindfulness-based nature invitations to support sensory awareness, nervous-system regulation, and reciprocal connection with place.
The trail became the foundation for the broader Acadiana Forest Bathing initiative, later expanded into a regional network of nature-connection trails.
Ecological perspective
The natural world is not a backdrop.
Eco-somatic work notices the relationship between nervous systems and place. My ecological practice draws from contemporary ecotherapy and ecopsychology as well as broader relational, embodied, and place-based ways of understanding human connection with the living world. I recognize Indigenous knowledge systems as distinct, living traditions and do not claim ownership of them.