Reduce anxiety, enhance healing, and reclaim resilience.
Welcome to Nature Therapy Earth
Nature-based practices, also known as ecotherapy practices, are scientifically proven to help regulate the body, calm the mind, and reset the systems responsible for healing and repair. Learn how to reduce anxiety, strengthen the immune system, and reclaim resilience in as little as 20 minutes a day. Contact me to create your personalized nature-based wellness practice, or to join an upcoming small-group experience.
Meet Your Guide
Hello, everyone, and welcome. My name is Tracy Teuscher.
I am a certified ecotherapist, master naturalist, conservation educator, and trained energy healer with an MS in Environmental Studies, as well as a communications pro, published poet, and artist.
As an ecotherapist and nature therapy guide, I will help you create a personalized, nature-centered wellness practice tailored to your needs, access, abilities, and personal geography. Whether you’re just getting started with nature-based wellness or expanding your practice to include forest bathing, creative expression, personalized rituals, or other ecotherapy modalities, I will provide the guidance you need to reduce anxiety, reset your healing systems, and reclaim resilience.
My work is guided by extensive study of scientific research and traditional (Indigenous) ecological knowledge and wisdom, as well as intuitive guidance, wilderness rites of passage, ancestral healing, and empathic gifts. The love language of the Earth is expressed in many ways and offers many ways of knowing.
We can meet virtually or in person to create your personalized practice, depending on your location. You are also welcome to join a small group experience.
Let’s get started to help you experience greater health, hope, and happiness.
Services
Book a Session
Book a personalized session to create your nature-based wellness practice centered around your needs. Whether your goal is to reduce anxiety, process difficult emotions, or create personalized rituals, let’s get started.
Book a Spot
Book a spot in an upcoming small group experience, like forest bathing, walking meditation, nature journaling, or creative expression. Our event schedule will be published soon.
Book a Talk
Book an science-based talk for your group, organization, or business. Learn how nature-based practices work to reduce anxiety, restore resilience, enhance wellbeing, and prevent burnout.
Forest Bathing
Discover personalized virtual and in-person coaching in forest bathing, as well as guided small-group forest bathing
experiences in Ohio. Let’s help you develop a personalized practice to experience the phenomenal, lasting benefits of forest bathing, also called forest therapy or shinrin yoku.
How Forest Bathing Works
Our Sacred Relationship
with the Trees
Trees have lived on Earth for about 385 million years. Humans have been evolving for about 7 million years, yet only about 300,000 years as Homo sapiens (Miyazaki, 2018). Because of our co-evolution with trees, our olfactory system includes receptors in the nasal cavity, bronchial tubes, and small intestine that allow humans to detect tree and forest aromas that other beings cannot (Selhub & Logan, 2012). The human intranasal pathway is a direct pathway to the brain for a wide array of these healing substances, including phytoncides.
One tree of a single species can release several dozen of these aromatic substances, which work synergistically to regulate and strengthen human systems, including the limbic system, which governs emotion (Miyazaki, 2018; Selhub & Logan, 2012). These gorgeous healing substances have been found to regulate blood pressure, balance hormones, reduce stress and anxiety, expedite healing, reduce pain, enhance immune system response, and even regulate sleep cycles (Selhub & Logan, 2012).
This means that forest bathing reduces anxiety, regulates your body, activates your parasympathetic nervous system, restores cognitive function, enhances immune system function, and restores a sense of wellbeing, belonging, and purpose.