By reading our books you can have a refreshing visit to a forest in your mind. You learn new things about nature and its impacts on wellbeing. Take insights and inspiration with you on your forest walks!
Forest calendar for difficult times (coming in 2024)
The book will show you fascinating moments in nature throughout the day and year. Northern nature itself with its powerful seasons will teach you how to react to challenging times.
Nature will help you through difficulties, not least because it makes us feel a connection to one another. Based on research data, cultural history and stories, the book explains this from the viewpoint of the rhythms of nature.
All of nature, including human beings, is governed by the rhythmicity of night and day and the seasons. Every season in nature supports those living through difficult times while also leading to an experience of timelessness, which forms the basis for psychological wellbeing provided by nature.
Suomalainen metsäkylpy (Woodland) (Gummerus 2019)
The book helps you to become aware of nature’s channels of influence and you learn how to utilise them. These include, e.g. stress relief, mood lifting, exposure to microbes, and increased physical activity.
Every chapter takes you along to a reviving and inspiring walk in the forest. You can join us on an outing to Sipoonkorpi, the closest national park to the capital, where writers live and work.
The book clearly shows the writers’ passion for nature and the forests, and their knowledge of the matter. It is in evidence, e.g. in the extensive list of source materials, which leads you to deeper information, i.e. a multitude of quantitative research results, if you so wish. You never feel like this is any kind of hocus-pocus although the text is written in a very down-to-earth manner. You definitely do not need to wear a doctor’s hat – you can read it barefoot in a hammock or lying on a bed of moss.”
– Mikko Lemmetti, Retkipaikka 13.8.2019
The book is temporarily out of print, but it is available in libraries and as e-books and audiobooks.
The translation rights of Woodland are available at Helsinki Literary Agency.
Terveysmetsä – Tunnista ja koe elvyttävä luonto (Health Forest – Identify and experience reviving nature) (Gummerus 2017)
The book helps you see nature’s locations and scenery with new eyes and learn to regulate your wellbeing.
Health Forest shows how different features of the landscape have an impact on people and promote their health. It gathers together the fullness of beneficial nature: the forests, rocks, waters, marshlands, meadows, cultivated land, and landscapes. The book encourages you to connect with nature even more deeply and find your own health forest through stories and tips. The book is among the most comprehensive in its field, presenting a systematic 31-point set of qualities for a Health Forest.
In the book, clearly explained research data on the health impacts of nature are seamlessly combined with the description of personal experiences of nature. When you read the book, you notice the author has gone to great lengths to make sure the expressions and language are immaculately presented. At times, I thought that you could compare the book to a carefully finished handicraft such as a musical instrument.”
– Juhana Harju / Suomen terveysravinto 27.6.2017
The book is temporarily out of print, but it is available in libraries and as e-books and audiobooks.
Sorry, not yet available in English.
