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For forest therapy guide Kimberley Ruffin, faith is an experience that is palpable among trees. In this audio practice, she takes you on a sensory walk through the forest.
Kimberly Ruffin is a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide who leads walks and gives talks in the Chicagoland area and wherever else she is called to serve. She is the author of Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions and Associate Professor of English at Roosevelt University.
For Kimberly Ruffin, a certified nature and forest therapy guide, faith is an experience that is palpable among trees. In this audio practice, Kimberley takes you on an easy-paced, sensory walk through the forest—an opportunity to participate in a continuous exchange of belonging.
As Kimberly Ruffin revisits her upbringing and spiritual heritage, she compiles the bodies of evidence that have invigorated her spirit. She explores where “spirit power” can be found, both within a church community and in the places where faith rises up within the land.
