Highlands Center for Natural History: Mindful Meandering – Deepening Our Awareness of Nature with Grace Burford

We can get a lot of different benefits from taking a walk in a natural outdoor setting. We might love catching up on our friends’ lives, or happily learn to identify flora and fauna, or enjoy exercising our bodies, or get a sense of accomplishment from reaching a particular destination—or some combination of all of these.

On a Mindful Meander, we set aside such worthy activities for a couple of hours to focus instead on being present in nature. We practice using our senses to expand our awareness of the natural world, both what’s around us and ourselves in it.