WELCOME TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOMEN'S REFUGE

by LisaJoy My Sit Spot Fascinated about this forest I live in, I wanted to know everything the forest could teach me. I love to learn and I’m aware there is a whole galaxy of happenings here. I decided to become certified in Slyvotherapy, or Forest Therapy, practiced in Japan. One of the first assignments was to find a tree, a special tree you feel in harmony with. On our humble 3 acres we must have 100’s of trees. My first thought was, find the biggest, oldest, tallest tree.

...how long can I stay alive When I was young, I remember floating contentedly in the shallow end, where the water was warm and comforting and my feet could always find the bottom. I felt safe, sometimes silly, still splashing around like a child but I loved the certainty of it. Yet as I began to glance more often past the rope line, I saw the others, laughing louder, moving freer, the deeper the water got. I watched them cannonball off the edge, launch from the low board, th