About the Book
• Award Winner in Non-Fiction: New Age category of the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards
• 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award - Earth Changes / Health & Wellness / Memoirs & Personal Journey and 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Silver Award - Contemporary Spirituality
• 2026 Nautilus Silver Award
• 2025 American Book Fest Award
• 2025 BIBA Best Independent Book Award
• 2025 NYC Big Book Award
• Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature
• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication
• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits
Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.
Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.
This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Allegra Moon
Acknowledgments
Introduction—An Invitation
1 Health
2 The Goddess Beauty
3 How Do We Listen?
4 Angel Trees
5 The Green Jewel
6 Redwoods and Whales
7 Obstacles along the Path
8 Holy Groves
9 Eagles and Condors
10 Celtic Nature Magic
11 Power Spots
12 Sixth Sense
13 Pink Silk Dress
14 Lion
15 Gravity
16 Graves
17 Soil
18 Weather
19 A Fable for Our Times
20 Sitting with Sitka Spruce
21 The Golden Mead
22 Unicorn Magic
23 Dryads
24 Sacred Sexuality
25 Rutting Elk
26 Exuberance
27 Elen of the Ways
28 The One-Hearted Path
29 Violet Tree
30 Freyja
31 Missed Chances
32 Camping
33 Sedna
34 Imagine
Conclusion—Dreaming the World
Bibliography
About the Author :
Ellen Dee Davidson has worked as a creative writing, piano, and elementary school teacher and is the author of a number of children’s books, including Wind, which won the Nautilus Gold Award, and The Miracle Forest. She is a member of TreeSisters, Awakening Women, and the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project. She lives in Bayside, California.
Review :
“Passion for the natural world and authentic wisdom pour out of every chapter of this exploration of life in the realm of the mystical, where interspecies communication takes place with old growth redwoods, Sitka spruces, whales, and Earth Mother herself. Davidson invites us to soften into what Mother Nature reveals at every turn.”
“Ellen weaves spirituality, cultural connections, personal experiences, and science to transport you into the presence of the ancient forests. Her elegant writing flows with love of nature. This book gives us the opportunity to connect deeply with the wisdom of the trees and evolve our potential as human beings.”
“Ellen Dee Davidson has devoted years creating a deep relationship with the redwoods. The living language of the trees is subtle; with Ellen's help, the gift the trees offer us is to learn how to enter into vibrant encounters with wise ancient trees.”
“Sacred Forest Bathing is a poetic invitation into one’s own wild intelligence as part of nature rather than outside of it. Through Ellen’s personal journey with the redwoods, we are given a field guide for our own encounter with the heartbeat of life. You will never see or feel life the same after walking in Ellen’s hiking boots.”
“A calming and much-needed balm in these chaotic, uncertain times. Journey with Ellen Dee Davidson into the ancient forests of Northern California and return home to the healing, sumptuous presence of the Standing Ones/Tree People our ancestors knew. You will be compelled to go outside and bond with your local trees and forests to rediscover the wisdom and healing energies of these sacred spaces. A must-read!”
“Sacred Forest Bathing reveals how to receive wisdom and guidance from ancient forests where the interconnected web of life exists. A delight for the soul and an inspiration for the mind, this beautifully written book will resonate with anyone seeking affirmation of life’s many relationships."
“Ellen’s clarity is born from decades of wandering the wilderness, communing deeply with trees, and researching ancient and contemporary Earthbased teachings at this time of planetary emergency. Sacred Forest Bathing is delightful, hard-hitting, compassionate, hopeful, and weaved together through Ellen’s intelligence, sensitivity, realism, and utter delight for our living world.”
“Sacred Forest Bathing is a journey, a meditation, and an initiation into myth, magic, and sensual communion with the forest. Ellen invites us into a world where the veils are thin and the wisdom of Earth and our primordial belonging here is undeniable. This book is her generous invitation for us all to come along with her into a multidimensional relationship with nature.”
“With refreshing humor and humility, Ellen tells of falling under the spell of an ancient redwood forest. We are introduced to her favorite trees, learn about their vibrational energies, and experience the wisdom of their spirits. Along the way, we discover a path that can lead us to healing and wholeness.”
“As we become weary and overwhelmed in an attempt to keep ourselves from becoming numb to the extreme suffering happening around the world, let Davidson be your guide to the life-giving powers of the natural world. She’s a most excellent authority and counselor in leading us into states of awe, reverence, joy, and appreciation.”
“Sacred Forest Bathing by Ellen Dee Davidson will guide you through the forest while revealing its powerful healing benefits. Each chapter has profound wisdom, helpful advice, and activities to help us connect with nature on a deeper level. Davidson also shares her whimsical forest adventures too as well as others experiences with nature!”
“A book to practice and to reference as the forest calls to you. Davidson provides the elements of encouragement and inspiration to begin or breathe new life into your personal relationship with nature.”
