shinrin-yoku
Language: Japanese · [ɕinɾiɰ̃jokɯ] · Pronunciation: shin-rin-YOH-koo
Meaning
a slow, restorative soak in the woods — forest-bathing
The story
Japan's forestry agency coined it in 1982 as a public-health campaign, prescribing trees the way doctors prescribe exercise. Studies on blood pressure followed, and the wellness world carried the word abroad. In English it travels as forest-bathing.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Japanese
- What does it literally say?
- Woodland-bath
- Where would you hear it?
- A pine forest with your phone off
- What does it mean?
- A slow, healing walk among trees
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