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11/11/2025

🐾 Mindful Dog Walk – this Sunday at 11am, Cator Park, Beckenham.

Join Millie for a gentle, restorative stroll designed for both humans and their four-legged friends.

So….Why join?

🌳 Originally created for carers who struggle to find time for themselves, these walks offer calm, connection and sensory immersion in your local park.

🌳Well-behaved dogs are welcome - when humans slow down, dogs do too.

🌳Did you know dogs’ noses are up to 100,000 times more sensitive than ours? They help us notice things we’d otherwise miss.

🌳It’s easy to scroll or make calls while walking so this session helps you truly see the park: the colours, the fungi, the changing season.

🌳 Expect to leave feeling calmer, grounded and reconnected – often for days afterwards.

Cator Park, Beckenham
Sunday 11am

🐕 Bring your curiosity (and your pooch!) join 1600 people who have learnt the art of forest bathing 💚 no water involved!

book FREE via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe

03/11/2025

Free Forest Bathing in CATOR PARK Nov 16th 11am

If you’ve been feeling tense, overwhelmed, or “on alert,” join Millie for a calming hour in Cator Park with your pooch.

ParkBathe Mindful Walks offer a gentle, guided mindfulness walk designed to lower anxiety and help you breathe again.

Forest bathing is a Japanese health practice of slowing down and using our senses - no water involved ! No woo-woo - just solid science.

This is what one participant said, "I can't believe I feel so relaxed and peaceful after one hour in a park !"

No talking is required - no experience needed - just one hour to pause. Let our guides ease you into your senses.

🌳 Book Free via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe and join 1,600 people who have benefitted from our community-led walks.

Meeting details will follow once you sign up. Low mobility friendly. Humans without pets welcome too ! All adults 16+.

Friends of Cator and Alexandra

30/10/2025

🍄Find Fungi Treats with Parkbathe!

It’s prime mushroom-spotting season, the woodland floor is alive with hidden treasures if you know where to look! Here are a few fungi friends to keep an eye out for on your next walk with us:
King James Fungi (King Alfred’s Cakes) These dark, round fungi cling to dead ash trees like little charcoal buttons - or burnt cakes! They’re tough and woody, not for eating, but make brilliant natural firelighters once dried!

Bonnets - Delicate and whimsical, bonnets (from the Mycena family) pop up on mossy logs and leaf litter. These vary in size but think fairy toadstools, small, pale, and so pretty when the light hits their caps.
Turkey Tail - Look for colourful, fan-shaped brackets with fine, velvety rings of brown, blue, and green. They grow on dead wood and look like, yes, you guessed it, a turkey’s tail.

Hen of the Woods (a.k.a. Hen’s Tail) Found at the base of oak trees, this soft, ruffled fungus looks like a feathery hen! It’s a prized edible (only if correctly identified). Always cross-check with a reliable fungi guide or expert before foraging.

🌿 Top Tips for Spotting Fungi:

1. Look down! Most fungi love damp, decaying wood and shaded soil.
2. Move slowly, their colours can blend perfectly with leaves.
3. Take photos, not samples, unless you’re confident in ID.
4. Early morning after rain = peak mushroom magic.
5. Respect the ecosystem as fungi play a vital role in woodland health.

What fungi have you spotted lately? Share your woodland finds below 👇Don’t forget to keep scrolling to find all of our free upcoming forest bathing walks! 🍄BOOK VIA BIO

24/10/2025

If you're sick of the rain and people moaning, get yourself to MHA The Wilderness this Monday for an opportunity to slow down in nature, decompress, breathe and enjoy all the fantastic colour in this wonderful garden.

One hour will give you:

Reduced stress.
Increased relaxation
Reflection time
An immune boost
Put a smile on your face...

Monday 11am MHA - free forest bathing with the team. Book via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe

20/10/2025

Roll up, Bromley! We’ve made the cover of Lived in Bromley magazine!

I’m thrilled (ok, I’m squirming a bit too) to be shining a light on the wellbeing magic happening right here in our local Bromley parks.

Our free ParkBathe Forest bathing sessions invite people to sloowww down, breathe and notice the extraordinary beauty hiding in plain sight - because we all bomb around too fast, don’t we?

While some of our urban park sessions have waiting lists, we’d love to reach more people in Orpington, where there’s still space to join in each month. The next session is Sunday November 9th at 11am in Priory Gardens…

If you’re part of a community group, charity, link worker, GP practice or organisation in Orpington, we’d love to connect! 🌿

Come and meet who has been running these gentle guided sessions for three years, with regulars who swear by the relaxation and mindset shift it brings.

Let’s bring more calm, connection and community into Bromley’s green spaces.

We know you’re out there, maybe you are stuck inside, maybe you are looking for something different to take that first step outdoors…

Come and join us 💚 if you know an organisation in Bromley or Orpington, please tag them for us.

15/10/2025

🌿 Slow Down to See More? 🍂
What? People often say “notice the details in nature” - the light on water, the reflection of a leaf, the changing colours of autumn.
But here’s the truth: unless you slow down, you’ll miss all of it. And who goes anywhere slow these days?
That’s why so many people come to ParkBathe - to be gently forced to slow down.
And when you do, something magical happens… the world suddenly bursts into life. Colours intensify, sounds sharpen, and even the air feels different. One participant said, “It was like seeing the park in HD for the first time.”
✨ Put us to the test.
Join us this Sunday at 11am in Priory Gardens for a FREE guided ParkBathe walk and see the world explode in colour.

10/10/2025

Come notice natures with us. It’s full of surprises 🍃💚

09/10/2025

🌳 Free Forest Bathing Walk – Priory Gardens, Sunday Oct 19th at 11am🌳

Trees have hidden superpowers ! some can self-pollinate, and others, like the rare Devon whitebeam, can even clone themselves! Yet, most of us walk right past these quiet wonders without really seeing them.

Join ParkBathe for a slow, guided sensory 1hr walk that helps you reconnect with nature and notice the incredible wildlife around you - even in urban parks.

You’ll probably see more trees than you ever seen before - simply because this time, you’ll really be looking. And boy are the colours great at the moment 🍁

No water is involved - no need to rush anywhere - just time to breathe, notice, and restore.

Open to all adults. 🌿

Book free and join 1600 people who have been part of this incredible community led project helping people lower stress and connect to nature on their doorstep

Book via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe

28/09/2025

I don’t know about you, but I’ve rolled and landed on my *rse more than once this autumn thanks to the bumper crop of acorns.

These funny-shaped treasures are scattered like marbles in my local park – beautiful, yes, but lethal too.

But here’s the shocking part: if I wanted to look up “acorn” with a child when we got home, I couldn’t. The Oxford Junior Dictionary cut it, along with bluebell, buttercup, kingfisher, otter, willow and more – replaced with what they deem “useful” words like “broadband” and “email.”

What does it say about the world we’re shaping for our young people if we erase the very words that root us to nature?

Thankfully, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris responded with The Lost Words in 2017 – a book of poems and illustrations that resurrected those missing names, reminding us that naming is part of knowing, and knowing is part of caring.

So here’s our ParkBathe invitation: if you’re with a child and see a scattering of acorns, stop. Pick one up, pop on its little hat, and say the word out loud. Explain how acorns feed squirrels, jays and deer, and how oaks support more species than any other British tree.

Every time we speak these words, we keep them alive. Words, like seeds, only grow if we plant them. 🌱Why not join our next mindful walk in nature? OCTOBER 5th in CRYSTAL PALACE PARK! Book via bio 🍃

26/09/2025

🍂 SUNDAY 5th OCTOBER at 1pm. Why SLOWING DOWN this autumn is essential🍂

When we SLOW and really take in the reds, golds and browns of autumn leaves, something powerful happens inside our bodies.

Slowing down activates the parasympathetic nervous system - our body’s natural ‘rest and restore’ mode. Heart rate eases, breathing deepens and stress hormones drop. The simple act of looking at autumn’s colours can shift us from fight-or-flight into calm and feeling groovy🍁

So expect to walk SLOWLY (did we mention that?) and give yourself permission to linger and reflect. Notice details you rush past, the way the light hits a leaf, the crunch underfoot. 🍁 Your nervous system will thank you 💚❤️ BOOK VIA BIO - last few places!!

25/09/2025

It’s BACK!! By popular demand! THREE DATES!

Sunday October 5th at 1pm our flagship ParkBathe walk 🍁🍃

🍁 Shed that stress
🍁 Learn the art of forest bathing
🍁 Move slowly
🍁 Notice cool natural details
🍁 Listen to birdsong
🍁 Feel weirdly connected to yourself & others

Do not wait - these guided walks always go to a waitlist. Book FREE via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe

* If you cannot make this date, there are two more on 2nd AND 30th November! 💚

Forest bathing is a slow mindful walk in nature clinically shown to lower anxiety - no water involved. Join over 1,600 people who have benefited 🍃

15/09/2025

WOW!

We ran three packed sessions at the WilderFest at beautiful MHA The Wilderness Gardens last Saturday!

46 participants in total…with lots of super positive feedback 🍃💚

If you missed out, fear not! You can join Karen one of our walk leaders in Priory Gardens, Orpington this Sunday at 11 am for free 🍃

What better way to wake up on a Sunday morning? Open your senses, slow down and connect to yourself and your local green space 🍁

Book via https://linktr.ee/ParkBathe

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