Jun 7, 2025, 10:00 am–12:30 pm
Seed Song Farm & Seed Song Center
160 Esopus Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401
When was the last time you allowed yourself to get lost in the woods? To really spend time with a tree and the earth, hear songbird, allow your body to unfold and remember that it too is animal, and wild, and alive?
Nature Connection and Poetry as Liberatory Practice is an invitation to slow down, listen, and remember our innate belonging. Merging forest therapy with embodied healing, this workshop is a space to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the natural world is an act of reclamation—dismantling the internalized systems of disconnection, linearity, and productivity. Through guided sensory immersion, mythopoetic evocation, and shared reflection, we step into a more intuitive, heart-centered, and embodied way of being - remembering our place amongst all things. Forest Therapy (also known as Forest Bathing) has been proven to have powerful positive impacts on mental, emotional and physical health, in addition to nurturing creativity, intuition and spiritual wellbeing.
Details: 2.5 hour in person guided experience, outside under the big sky at Seed Song Farm & Center, just a two minute drive from Ulster Ave - a secret green oasis nestled in the city of Kingston. Come see for yourself! NOTE: Seed Song Farm has a CSA and farm store, plus plants for sale all season long. Additionally they offer an amazing kids camp and afterschool program with farm activities and nature connection. See their website for more info: https://www.seedsongfarm.org/
About your facilitator:
Irena Namayra Nayfeld, Ph.D. (she/they) is a psychologist of human development, embodied healing facilitator and somatic liberation guide. She holds certifications in somatic & emotional release, feminine embodiment coaching, and forest therapy. She is also a poet, dancer, and student of herbalism. Merging lived experience with over 15 years as an educator and facilitator, Irena weaves movement, intuition, and deep inner work to create spaces where human beings feel connected, nourished, and whole. Visit their website to learn more.
