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Books by Milena A. Guziak
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Writing at the meeting place of forest, mind, science and lived experience. Explore books on Shinrin-Yoku and forest therapy, meditation diaries, nature immersion, poetry and earlier reflective works.
Milena A. Guziak (MChem, PhDEng, MScPsy)
Author · Researcher · Educator
Founder of The Mindful Tourist
& Shinrin-Yoku Association
Founder of The Mindful Tourist
& Shinrin-Yoku Association
森 ・ 心
Writing as another way of walking: through the forest, through experience, and through the changing landscape of the mind.
A growing body of work
Forests, meditation, reflection and human experience
Milena A. Guziak's books move between scientific inquiry, professional practice and deeply personal reflection. Some are practical resources for Shinrin-Yoku and forest-therapy guides; others emerge from direct experience of forests, meditation, cultural encounters and the changing inner landscape.
Together they form an evolving collection rather than one fixed body of thought: research-informed manuals sit beside meditation diaries, poetry and reflective writing.
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Writing as a way of observing, questioning and giving expression to lived experience. Explore personal reflections, the process of writing, and the relationship between words, emotions and self-understanding.
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YOUR GUIDE TO BECOMING A FOREST THERAPY GUIDE
First Published Edition
First Published Edition
A Publication Update
Your Guide to Becoming a Forest Therapy Guide
The first published edition is currently out of stock.
We are now preparing a revised second edition, with publication expected by the end of November 2026.
The Story Behind the Book
From a training manual in Japan to a book for everyone.
The story of this book began in Japan. From 2023 onwards, what would eventually become Your Guide to Becoming a Forest Therapy Guide was originally prepared as a practical training manual, handed directly to participants attending our immersive Shinrin-Yoku Guide Training programmes in Japan.
As students returned to Japan for successive training programmes, the manual continued to evolve. Each training offered new opportunities to revisit the material, reflect upon the methodology and expand its content. The experiences of teaching, guiding, observing and learning alongside participants contributed to its continuing development.
Over time, the training manual reached its eighth edition. What had started as a resource for students gradually developed into a more comprehensive body of writing, bringing together scientific research, practical knowledge, ethical considerations and reflections on the relationship between people and nature.
Eventually, the decision was made to bring this work beyond the training environment and make it available to the wider public. The published book grew from those years of practice and refinement, while continuing to invite questions, learning and further development.
The forthcoming second published edition is another step in that continuing journey.
2023
Training manual
for students in Japan
for students in Japan
8 Editions
Revisions of the
training manual
training manual
2026
Public book and
forthcoming 2nd edition
forthcoming 2nd edition
Thank you to all the students, readers and practitioners who have been part of this journey. We look forward to sharing the next edition with aspiring and practising Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy Guides.
SECOND EDITION
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EXPECTED LATE NOVEMBER 2026
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Your Guide to Becoming a Forest Therapy Guide
A Practical and Reflective Companion for Guiding Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Bathing, and Forest Therapy Sessions
A research-informed and reflective companion for current and aspiring forest-therapy guides, exploring the history of the field, science, nature connection, invitations, ethics, professional identity and responsible practice.
ISBN 978-83-68042-40-5
Fenomenologia Zanurzenia w Naturze. Część 1
Zanurzenie w Lesie, Zanurzenie w Sobie: O Zatrzymaniach, Przebudzeniu i Odpuszczeniu
A personal and phenomenological exploration of immersion in nature, shaped by memories of Japan, forest experience, stillness, awakening, letting go and the gradual return toward oneself.
ISBN 978-83-68042-31-3
Shinrin Yoku Guide Training
Training Manual
A comprehensive training manual covering Japanese and international Shinrin-Yoku research, cultural context, structured invitations, session design, guiding practice, ethics, protocols and risk assessment.
ISBN 978-83-966049-9-6
Szkolenie na Przewodnika Shinrin Yoku
Podręcznik szkoleniowy
Polish-language training manual combining scientific literature, Japanese cultural context and practical preparation for designing and leading responsible Shinrin-Yoku sessions.
ISBN 978-83-966049-8-9
Manual for the 5-Day Shinrin Yoku Guide Immersive Training in Japan
Immersive Training Manual
A manual developed for the five-day immersive guide training in Japan, including structured session protocols, practical invitations, immersion methodology and assessment-oriented practice.
ISBN 978-83-966049-7-2
A Workbook for The Mindful Tourist's Forest Bathing Guides
Reflective Training Workbook
A reflective workbook created for guide trainees, supporting ethical awareness, session planning, professional development, creativity and the development of reflective guiding practice.
ISBN 978-83-960363-2-2
Meditation diaries
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100 Days of Meditation – The Diary
Days 1–100
The first one hundred days of a daily meditation commitment: an intimate record of grief, physical difficulty, transition, presence and the repeated act of returning to stillness.
ISBN 978-83-68042-38-2
200 Days of Meditation – The Diary
Days 101–200
The meditation journey continues through another hundred days of change, emotional movement, discipline, uncertainty, identity and learning to remain with questions rather than quickly resolve them.
ISBN 978-83-68042-39-9
300 Days of Meditation – The Diary
Days 201–300
The third volume follows days 201–300 of the same daily practice, tracing how meditation changes when repetition becomes continuity and observation begins to enter ordinary life.
ISBN 978-83-68042-42-9
400 Days of Meditation – The Diary
Days 301–400
The fourth volume of the ongoing meditation diary, documenting days 301–400 through personal reflections on awareness, change, uncertainty, and the evolving relationship between meditation and everyday life.
ISBN 978-83-68042-44-3
Poetry & haiku
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Shinrin Yoku Poems & Haiku I
森林浴の俳句・詩 I · Amongst trees a place to heal
The first collection of poems and haiku born from encounters with forests in Japan and Poland, written through moments of sadness, wonder, stillness and emotional awakening.
ISBN 978-83-960363-9-1
Shinrin Yoku Poems & Haiku II
森林浴の俳句・詩 II · Amongst trees a place to heal
The second forest-inspired collection continues the conversation between human experience and the natural world through Japanese-language poems, haiku and English translation.
ISBN 978-83-961591-2-0
Shinrin Yoku Poems & Haiku III
森林浴の俳句・詩 III · Amidst trees a place to heal
The third volume extends the poetic journey into forests, presence, connection and the changing experience of self in relationship with the more-than-human world.
ISBN 978-83-966049-3-4
Shinrin Yoku Poems & Haiku
森林浴の俳句・詩 · Compilation of Volumes I, II & III
A collected edition bringing together all three Shinrin-Yoku poetry and haiku volumes: forest writing presented in Japanese, Roman transcription and English translation.
ISBN 978-83-966049-6-5
Just some poems – Why not?
Collection 1
The opening collection of intimate poetic conversations with oneself, exploring expectations, uncertainty, nature, identity and the freedom to express without needing a fixed destination.
Just some poems – Why not?
Collection 2
A second collection of concise reflections on the inner landscape: thoughts, relationships, emotional movement and the sometimes uncomfortable process of seeing oneself more clearly.
Just some poems – Why not?
Collection 3
The poetic inquiry continues through fragments of everyday life, self-observation, freedom, attachment, nature and the tension between what is expected and what is directly felt.
Just some poems – Why not?
Collection 4
A further series of short poetic reflections moving between vulnerability, resistance, perception and the changing relationship between the inner and outer worlds.
Just some poems – Why not?
Collection 5
The fifth collection continues an intentionally unguarded form of reflective writing: small observations, emotional contrasts and encounters with the self and the surrounding world.
Fluctuations of Life
Poetry from my heart · Collection 1
The beginning of a poetry series about emotional movement and the uneven rhythm of lived experience: moments of closeness, loss, change, tenderness, strength and contradiction.
Fluctuations of Life
Poetry from my heart · Collection 2
A continuation of poems written from within life's changing emotional currents, observing how relationships, memory and perception move rather than remain fixed.
Fluctuations of Life
Poetry from my heart · Collection 3
The third collection returns to the instability and richness of ordinary experience, using poetry as a space for noticing change rather than attempting to eliminate it.
Earlier works
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A Diverse World
A Very Short Conversation About – The Brain & Sex
A short science-oriented exploration of sex, the brain and biological diversity, written as an accessible conversation between scientific curiosity, personal reflection and social questions.
ISBN 978-83-960363-1-5
Świat Zosi I
Milena A. Guziak Collection · Book 1
A Polish-language collection for adult readers that looks at the world through Zosia's perspective, using a deliberately simple voice to approach childhood experience and difficult social questions.
ISBN 978-83-957566-8-9
Świat Zosi II
Milena A. Guziak Collection · Book 2
The second volume continues Zosia's story and turns toward the emotions, questions and inner preparations that accompany the movement from childhood toward adult life.
ISBN 978-83-960363-6-0
Collections & continuing journeys
Meditation Diary
Forest Poetry
Poetry Collections
Books that continue across volumes
100 · 200 · 300 · 400 Days of Meditation
A continuing record of daily meditation, inner observation, uncertainty, grief, change, discipline and the gradual movement from meditation as an activity toward meditation as a way of living.
Shinrin Yoku Poems & Haiku I · II · III
Poetry and haiku shaped by wandering through the forests of Japan and Poland, presented individually and in a collected edition.
Just some poems & Fluctuations of Life
Short collections of inner conversations, changing emotional landscapes, relationships, expectations, freedom, identity and encounters with nature.
About the author
Milena A. Guziak
Milena A. Guziak is a writer, researcher, educator and the founder of The Mindful Tourist: 森の心・人の心 and Shinrin-Yoku Association. Her work moves between the scientific study of human–nature relationships and the direct, embodied experience of spending time in forests.
Her writing reflects years lived in Japan, work in Shinrin-Yoku education, psychology and research, and an ongoing interest in meditation, nature connectedness, human wellbeing, culture, identity and reflective practice.
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