Affective ecologies and embodied geographies of healing in BosqueAdentro

BosqueAdentro is not merely an eco-touristic initiative but a transdisciplinary framework rooted in the Iberian landscape, where restorative environments, emotional activism and sensorial pedagogy converge in a living dialogue between human subjectivity and ecological integrity; drawing inspiration from Japanese shinrin-yoku yet decisively distancing itself from cultural mimicry, the project unfolds as a situated experience in Extremadura, where the forest is not a backdrop but a co-agent that dialogues with the perceiving body, which here acts not just as a vehicle but as an affective antenna tuning into biophysical rhythms and socio-environmental signals, thereby reconfiguring the act of walking into an act of listening, reinhabiting and reciprocal transformation; at its core lies a methodology developed by Esther Lorenzo Montero, biologist and PhD in Social Psychology, whose research merges environmental psychology, landscape perception and pro-environmental emotions, crafting itineraries that dissolve the binary of subject and object to foster eco-somatic consciousness; in a case experience titled Los Castaños no olvidan, participants engaged in a collective silent immersion among centuries-old chestnut trees, reporting heightened feelings of temporal spaciousness, biophilic empathy and existential clarity, demonstrating how deep ecological encounters can recalibrate stress patterns and revitalize psychological resilience; far from being an escapist retreat, BosqueAdentro positions itself as a territorial response to psychosocial collapse, anchoring its praxis in regenerative tourism and ecocentric wellbeing, where to walk is to weave, to sense is to resist, and to dwell is to care, not from utopian abstraction but from the grounded complexity of shared place. * https://bosqueadentroexperiencias.blogspot.com/