Scanlan: When nature calls, or how a bath in the forest can change your day

Hikers and bikers know the feeling of needing hot baths after muddy treks in the woods.
What if nature provided the bath, without a drop of water?
My partner and I recently dabbled in Shinrin-yoku and lived to tell of it. Shinrin-yoku is Japanese for bathing in the forest atmosphere. Of course, this is not bathing as we think of it, but taking in the forest through the senses of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
“In the 1980s the Japanese government encouraged workers to get out from b