So many requested we offer it again, and so we shall!
Saturday, January 11th, for the first full moon of 2025, known by the name of "Wolf Moon," after active wolves during the early parts of the year.
We are innovating at the Speed Of Nature —yet our invitation is for you to slow down to the rhythm of the trees. Let the light of the First Full Moon of 2025 bathe you in its silvery glow.
This moon marks a time of introspection and preparation, a season to gather strength and nurture your inner resources. As you walk into our 123 year old growth forest, on paths that are the least trodden at Patch, deep into the hammock, arriving at the Thai Meditation Joglo, in the velvet of night, for a Candlelight Forest Bath experience, under La Luna Llena.
Event Schedule
Don't miss out on this one-time event.
5:30 - 6:00
We encourage Early Arrival for best seating
Ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the official inauguration of the world's first Mindful Pocket Park.
6:00 - 6:15
Twilight Experience Begins
Arrive, pause and learn the“Catch Your Breath” practice.
6:15 - 6:30
Grounding Meditation
Learn about Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, the Mindful Pocket Park, why the science of focus and attention training helps mental wellbeing and the benefits of Nature-based Mindfulness.
6:30 - 6:45
In the Dark Drum Walk
Ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the official inauguration of the world's first Mindful Pocket Park.
6:45 - 7:00
Tree of Life Visit
Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.
7:00 - 7:45
Forest Bath Walk in the Deep Woods
Five Sensory Gardens “guide” the experiential aspect of the 5 Senses.
7:45 - 8:00
Thai Joglo Candlelight Forest Meditation
“Check-out” choosing two words to describe in THIS MOMENT NOW the state of their heart-mind upon taking “The Nature Pill.”
8:00 - 8:15
MoonWalk to Welcome Center
Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.
What is the UN International Day of Peace?
What is Forest Bathing?
Based on the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku, the therapeutic benefits of this art & science is based on Dr. Qing li’s work as the Chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine.
What do you do?
The invitation is to slow your pace, put away your devices, and allow all your perceptions to open to the sights, sounds, and scents to the trees. Because this work is known to help you find healing and happiness.
Why do we celebrate International Peace Day at Patch of Heaven Sanctuary?
We will guide you through the foundations of how earth-focused awareness practices began, weave you into the neuroscience of anxiety and offer the antidote of the Mindful Pocket Park’s “deep dive” into how to Pay Attention With Your Senses or P.A.W.S. When we learn through Sight, Sound, Scent, Touch and Taste how to offer ourselves present moment awareness, we open to the joys of birdsong, the sweetness of a breeze, the the lilting uplift of the chimes in our Sound Garden, and the sacred act of offering a prayer to the air before our Tibetan Prayer Wheel in the Touch Garden
The Host
Suzanne Jewell
Chief Experience Officer, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary
Founder of the Mindful Pocket Park @Patch, certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center/Sounds True training, Executive Resilience Coach and Forest Therapy guide.
Dr. Ingrit Rojas | Sound Healer
An Emergency Medicine specialist with over ten years of experience, has expanded her expertise to encompass Integrative Health and Wellbeing, with a focus on Sound Healing and Music Therapy after studies at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.
