Refhygge

01/25/2026

We will be enjoying this blend together next Saturday!

✨Have you tried our new Forest Bathing Tea? This is a collaboration with Friends of the Jackson County Greenways! Great for connecting with nature! We also have Imbolc incense, bath soaks and seeds for the new season of light! ✨
✨We will be doing an Imbolc welcoming down at The Cut Cocktail Lounge on Sunday Feb 1st for those who would like to make a Brigid cross or kudzu wreath! We will also have Oracle and tarot reading spreads. Come join us! ✨

01/24/2026

UPDATE: NO WALK 1/31 DUE TO WEATHER

Won't you join us next week?

Shall we take a walk?
Register here: https://jcprd.recdesk.com/Community/Program/Detail?programId=3340

01/18/2026

Next Saturday at this time we will be drinking a warm mug of coffee preparing ourselves for Alarka Expeditions annual winter tree i.d. and the "wonderment of trees"!

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01/15/2026

Hello fellow treehyggers!!

It’s about time I introduce myself: I am Madison Traviss, an ANFT certified forest bathing guide, writer, and facilitator who stewards resilient spaces of curiosity to increase collective confidence, connection, and collaboration through grounded action, strengthening intuitive ideation, and experiencing interconnection.

Refhygge is: Refuge + Hygge // ref ho͝oɡə // In ourselves and environment.
This is a space to rediscover the hidden trails of the soul by connecting with nature; we will continue to do this through collaborative in person forest bathing walks and seasonal story weaving as well as monthly virtual sit spot and story weaving communities.

Please stay tuned as we start to build more walks, offerings, gatherings!

Until then, we are cozily nestled in winter cultivating what’s to bloom.

📸: last fall at Satulah Mountain during our Highlands Cashiers Land Trust sunset forest bathing walk.

📸: headshot I have always loved, taken by Gretchen Yost Photography, LLC.

01/12/2026

I'd love to see you on the greenway!

Shall we take a walk?
Register here: https://jcprd.recdesk.com/Community/Program/Detail?programId=3340

01/07/2026

Shall we take a walk?
Register here: https://jcprd.recdesk.com/Community/Program/Detail?programId=3340

12/31/2025

12/30/2025

Story weaving has become a warm hug with each season’s passing.

As a new forest bathing guide, I was guided in this modality by Ben Page. What started as a curiosity to strengthen my own expressive outlets, grew to be a monthly virtual offering while in our bus, and has now become a cherished collaborative space within our community to welcome each equinox and solstice.

Summer Solstice we wove renewal,
Autumn Equinox was on thresholds with our pokeberry ink,
Winter Solstice about soil with mullein torch creations.

My word for 2026 is devotion and this practice feels like that exactly.

Overjoyed to continue to create alongside Ashlyn and breathe a new depth into these seasonal rhythms.

{{ If you've woven with us, share a favorite excerpt? // if you haven't yet, maybe a word you're bringing into the new year? }}

12/30/2025

12/23/2025

Shared by a friend yesterday, we need to share today:

“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in…