Practice closed
If you’ve reached me here looking for my naturopathic practice, you’ll note that I’m no longer actively seeing patients.
Although I’m sad to leave behind behind an active role in primary care, I’m honoured to have worked with my patients over the years and will forever be an advocate for inclusive and accessible naturopathic medicine.
– Cyndi
Forest Bathing
Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku
In her latest book, Cyndi introduces readers to the art and science of forest bathing, the deceptively simple Japanese practice of spending time in the forest as a way to find peace, rejuvenation, and to promote health.
She shares her own personal history with the practice—how in the midst of an urban sprawl she lost touch with nature, only to rediscover it through the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku or forest bathing. In Forest Bathing, you’ll discover the health benefits of Shinrin Yoku, from restoring Vitamin D to balancing your microbiome, along with the rich mental and emotional rewards that spending time surrounded by trees can offer.
An easy and practical guide to begin your own forest bathing practice, you’ll learn how to tap more deeply into your five senses, practice true mindfulness in sacred woodland spaces, and experience the healing impact of nature wherever you are.
*My office sits on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land has also been home to the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee Peoples. Toronto is part of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of T’karonto (Mohawk) continues to be home to many Indigenous People from across Turtle Island. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this land, and I commit to advocating for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action.
It’s critical for me to actively acknowledge the participation of the naturopathic profession in ongoing processes of colonization and oppression. Naturopathic medicine has contributed to the devaluing of traditional health knowledge, and has also misrepresented herbal and natural health knowledge as its own, including, but not limited to, health knowledge from Indigenous, African, South and East Asian medical systems. I am committed to addressing this history bravely as part of my ongoing commitment to reconciliation, social justice, and the creation of equitable, inclusive spaces and systems.
