India
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Dehradun, Mar 07: The country”s first forest healing centre based on the concept of making people healthy by bringing them into direct contact with nature was opened to the public on Sunday at Kalika near Ranikhet, an official said.
Signboards on either side of its slopey entrance advise visitors to hug trees, walk barefoot on the grass, lie on their back and gaze at the swaying trees or the ever changing sky above to soothe their senses.
Cute little wooden structures called tree platforms have been built for the purpose of providing visitors a perfectly natural ambience to meditate.
Drawing inspiration from the Japanese technique of forest bathing (shinrin – yoku), the healing centre has been developed by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department after a detailed study of the revitalising impact of forests on human health, Chief Conservator of Forest Sanjiv Chaturvedi said.
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