These walks and hikes take small groups into one or a few ecosystems for conversation and silence, admiration, sharing food and practicing various styles of forest bathing. Participants may stay in an ecosystem—like a prairie, a horsetail forest, a creek or a swamp, a manzanita, scrub or ceanothus jungle, or a pine, oak, madrone or redwood grove—moving at careful or slow-motion speed, in order to experience that environment in an altered-state. They may also approach individual plants, animals, birds, insects, stones, etc. to gain familiarity through close sensory contact and cultivate a close relationship with emotions conducive to attachment. Participants may enhance close relationships by revisiting a specific plant, animal, insect, creek or stone, etc. after a period of separation to experience any alteration of their perceptions, emotions and evaluations.