Nature's Healing Embrace

# 🏕️🍂 Nature’s Healing Embrace Fall Camp Out

Join Nature’s Healing Embrace for a relaxing fall camping weekend at beautiful Seneca Shadows Campground in West Virginia, surrounded by colorful mountains and incredible views of Seneca Rocks.

This women’s weekend is an opportunity to slow down, spend time in nature, connect with other women, explore, and simply enjoy being outdoors.
There is no packed schedule and no pressure to do everything. Come enjoy the weekend at your own pace.

## 🥾 Saturday – Seneca Rocks Hike

On Saturday, we will head out together to hike Seneca Rocks!
We will plan to leave the campground around 8:30 AM to begin our hike. We’ll take our time along the trail, enjoying the forest, fall colors, mountain views, and time together.

🎒 For Saturday’s hike, please bring:
• A daypack
• Plenty of water
• A snack
• A packed lunch
• Hiking shoes or boots
• Weather-appropriate layers
• Rain gear, if needed
• Hiking poles, if you use them
We’ll enjoy our lunch during our time out on the trail, so please make sure you have everything you need with you when we leave camp.

### 🌿 After the Hike

After hiking Seneca Rocks, we can spend some time exploring the Seneca Rocks Discovery Center and the Sites Homestead before heading back to camp.

This will give us a chance to slow down after the hike, learn more about the area, and enjoy a little more of what Seneca Rocks has to offer.
Afterward, we’ll return to camp with plenty of time to relax, enjoy the evening, and gather around the campfire. 🔥🍂

🌿 Other weekend activities may include:
⛰️ Exploring Spruce Knob
🚗 Scenic drives and sightseeing
🔥 Relaxing and connecting around the campfire
🌄 Enjoying the beautiful fall mountain scenery
☕ Quiet mornings at camp
💜 Spending time with other women who enjoy nature and the outdoors

## 🏕️ Camping Information

This will be primitive-style camping, and each participant will be responsible for:
• Reserving and paying for her own campsite
• Bringing her own tent and camping equipment
• Bringing her own food and water
• Preparing for changing fall mountain temperatures and weather

The campsites are drive-in sites, so you can park at your campsite and easily bring the gear you need.
I will be staying at Campsite #14. If you would like to be close to the group, I encourage you to reserve a nearby campsite.

Whether you have been camping for years or you're interested in trying camping for the first time, you are welcome. You don't have to be an expert outdoorswoman—you just need a willingness to spend a weekend outside, try something new, and enjoy the experience.

💜 Nature’s Healing Embrace is about creating spaces where women can reconnect—with nature, with one another, and with themselves.

Come spend a beautiful fall weekend hiking, relaxing, laughing, connecting, and enjoying the mountains together. 🌿🏕️🍂

## 🎒 What to Bring

Bring your tent, sleeping bag and sleeping pad, camp chair, food and cooking supplies, water, headlamp or flashlight, toiletries, appropriate hiking shoes, rain gear if needed, and plenty of warm layers.
Mountain weather can change quickly, and fall evenings can be chilly, so please come prepared.

## 🏕️ Campsite Reservations

Each participant must make her own reservation through Recreation.gov for Seneca Shadows Campground.
I’m booked at Campsite #14.
Once you've reserved your campsite, let me know you're joining us so we know who to expect!
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Connecting Women, Community & Nature

🌳🌿 FOREST THERAPY WALK 🌿🌳
Shenandoah River State Park | Fall Women’s Wellness Series 2026

What if, for a couple of hours, you gave yourself permission to slow down, put aside the to-do list, and simply be present in nature?
Join us for a gentle Forest Therapy Walk at Shenandoah River State Park.

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
🕘 9:00–11:00 a.m.
📍 Shenandoah River State Park
🚗 Meet at the Canoe Launch sign in the Day-Use Area picnic area

🌳 WHAT IS FOREST THERAPY?
Forest Therapy—sometimes called forest bathing—is not about hiking for distance, exercising, or reaching a destination. Instead, it is an intentional practice of slowing down and connecting with the natural world through your senses.

During our time together, I’ll offer a series of gentle invitations that may encourage you to notice what you see, hear, smell, feel, and experience as you spend time among the trees and along the river.
There is no right or wrong way to participate.

You are always welcome to engage with each invitation in whatever way feels comfortable for you.

🍂 WHAT TO EXPECT
Our walk will be slow-paced and cover a relatively short distance. We’ll pause frequently, allowing plenty of time to notice, explore, reflect, and simply be.
We’ll begin by arriving and grounding together, move through several guided nature-connection invitations, and finish by coming back together for a closing experience.

🌿 No previous experience is necessary.
🌿 You do not need to be an experienced hiker.
🌿 Sharing is always optional.
🌿 Come exactly as you are.

This is your invitation to spend a fall morning slowing down, breathing deeply, reconnecting with your senses, and experiencing the forest in a different way. 🍂🌳

💚 PROGRAM COST
The Forest Therapy Walk is FREE. There is a $10 fee to enter Shenandoah River State Park, unless you have a Virginia State Parks Annual Pass.

🍁 Sign up for the Fall Women’s Wellness Series:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0549A8AB28ABF5C34-65356587-fall#/

The Forest Therapy Walk is part of the Fall Women’s Wellness Series 2026, which I’m grateful to offer as a volunteer with Shenandoah River State Park.