Health & Well-Being
Health and well-being begin with remembering that humans are part of nature. Our bodies, minds, and relationships respond to the living world in powerful ways. Did you know trees give off dozens of chemicals that humans tune into. Clean food, natural materials, sunlight, movement, rest, beauty, belonging, and time outdoors all help restore the conditions in which people can truly thrive.
This category highlights the growing ecosystem of organizations, products, places, and practices helping people live in closer alignment with life on Earth. It includes natural consumer products made from healthier ingredients, nature-based education and community, nervous system health through forest bathing, rewilding travel and much more.
Travel could be its own category because so many destinations are getting in on the wellness trend. But wellness here goes beyond spa treatments in a beautiful place, although there is nothing wrong with that! We’re not just about wildlife viewing and safaris either, but the most impactful travel dollar options are here. We focus on deeper nature immersion, personal renewal, and guided experiences that help people reconnect with themselves, each other, and the living world. These experiences offer more than escape, they renew participation in life.
Human well-being flourishes when people feel grounded in the natural world. Nature nourishes the nervous system, invites healthier habits, deepens social connection, and reminds people of their place in a larger living whole. The projects in this category reflect a hopeful shift toward health that feels more rooted, more beautiful, and more alive. For now, they are not sorted by sub-category but that will come. Bliss Scrolling (TM) anyone?
Jon Young
Jon has been a leader in the field of nature-based community building and education for over 40 years. He's written seminal books on nature connection, inspried youth education programs, and currently offeres courses on The Living Connection 1st Village and the Natural Mind Journey.
Josh Lane
Josh Lane offers soul-rooted mentoring, courses & books blending deep nature connection, inner tracking, and energy-based meditation to help you awaken clarity, remember your kinship with the wild, and align with your Earth-guided path.
Deborah Benham, PhD
Deborah Benhan, PhD offers training, speaking, facilitation, consultancy and design skills guided by the core principle of Biomimicry, and believes humanity can shift to being a net positive species on the planet.
Journey Immersion
Zach Bush, MD. merges science and natural wisdom into a community rembering our whole health from nutrition to being seen and everything in between. An ongoing whole systems approach to wellness with nature immersion destination offerings.
Osa Conservation
A great way to see wildlife corridor and conservation efforts happening in person. With a beautiful 6 person capacity retreat facility, farm to table meals, custom intinerary, and rainforest expert guides.
The Cedarsong Way
The Cedarsong Way Nature Pedagogy is distinguished by 100% outdoor time, complete nature immersion, unstructured flow learning, child-inspired curriculum, and authentic play.
Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT)
Global forest-therapy network training guides in nature-based wellbeing practices.
Retreat Guru
Over 4,000 retreat centers and 10,000 teachers offering plant wisdom of psylicibin, ayahuasca plus meditation, shamanism, breathwork and over 3,100 trips categorized as Nature-based.
Rewilding Europe
Restores wild nature across Europe with wildlife comeback projects and eco-tourism partnerships since 2011.
Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu
Conservation, Preservation and Restoration of the Atlantic Forest in the Guapiaçu River Basin, Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while hosting research and eco-tourism experiences.
Alladale Wilderness Reserve
Rent historic lodges, retreat centers within the 23,000 acre highlands reforestation and species recovery area in Caledonian forest, Scotland.
Lindblad Expeditions
If you take a cruise and want it be as much about nature as possible, take one from Nat. Geo. From photography and archaeology to history and marine biology, National Geographic experts give presentations and inspiring conversation. Trips designed around ecosystems, wildlife, and learning, in remote places where nature is seen as the teacher.
The Forest Bathing Institute
The Forest Bathing Institute is a research, events, and training organisation focusing on forest bathing and nature connection to support wellbeing and more mindful relationships with the natural world.
Wild Women
Rewilding for women, combining astrology, witch power, herbalism, yoga, reiki and more. Join Hannah on regular workshops or her Costa Rica retreat, at a boutique eco-resort in a rainforest preserve with a short walk to the beach.
Natural Habitat Adventures
In partnership with the WWF. Guided trips into iconic ecosystems with a conservation-first approach—great for travelers seeking nature as the main event. Carbon Neutral Company + offsets all guest flights = 400% carbon positive company.
The Brando
I visited this now legendary resort in its early days of development. I was impressed by their mission. A 20 min flight from Tahiti in French Polynesia, and developed in partnership with Marlin Brando, it pairs deep natural beauty with on-site research and sustainability systems. Exceptional marine and island conservation work, all in a luxury, low carbon footprint resort.
Black Tomatoe
High-end travel design with strong emphasis on remote nature immersion.
Healing Gardens
Healing Gardens helps people discover unique outdoor experiences at neighborhood gardens through community events, classes, private experiences, and shared gathering spaces.
NatureDose
NatureDose app provides a personalized nature prescription tracker that monitors aggregate time inside, outside, and exposed to nature to help users obtain ecotherapy benefits.
Savory Institute
Offers online holistic ecosystem management courses and travel to see regenerative land practices at work.
Dr. Bronner's
Organic, fair-trade body and home essentials with a strong clean-ingredient ethos. Deep working commitment to expanding healthy sourcing, pollinators, animal cruelty activism and so much more.
Credo Beauty
Credo beauty is a beauty care line striving to deliver the best, cleanest luxury brands around, and carry the largest collection of safer, more sustainable beauty products.
Plaine Products
Refillable bath and body care built around low-waste packaging and non-toxic formulas.
Ethique
Plastic-free personal care bars designed to reduce waste without compromising performance.
Bite
Bite makes zero-waste toothpaste tablets with clean ingredients, refillable glass containers, plastic-free refills, and a cruelty-free approach. Saves over 75,000lbs. of plastic waste a year.
Fat and the Moon
Fat and the Moon is hand-crafted herbal body care where self care is earth care, with herbalist-formulated essentials made from local and organically sourced botanicals.
Branch Basics
Branch Basics replaces toxic cleaning products, reduces waste, and keeps homes clean with high-quality, plant-based cleaning products.
Shinrin Yoku Association
The Shinrin Yoku Association promotes the practice of Shinrin Yoku, or forest bathing, to inspire connection with nature, cultivate well-being, and deepen understanding of the natural world.
The Backyard Bathers
Kate is your guide to forest bathing, nature art and coaching in Singapore. Start this business in your town?
Forest Therapy Hub
Forest Therapy Hub offers high-quality Forest Bathing Guide and Forest Therapy Practitioner training in multiple formats, along with research and standards development.
TimberNook
Outdoor play and nature-based childhood development programs for schools rooted in story and the wonder of nature to spark creativity, build confidence, and strengthen resilience.
Wild + Free
Nature-rich family learning community built around wonder, freedom, and outdoor discovery.
Alderleaf Wilderness College
Alderleaf offers courses on wilderness survival, wild edible and medicinal plants, wildlife tracking, outdoor leadership, permaculture, and sustainable living skills.
Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine offers online herbal courses including medicine making, herbal immersion, and foraging wild foods and herbs with harvesting ethics. Founded in 2007 by Juliet Blankespoor in Cherokee Nation territory, (now NC.)
Forest School Teacher Institute
Forest School Teacher Institute provides online and in-person certification, training, and guidance for educators building forest schools and nature-based learning programs.
Roots and Shoots
The Roots & Shoots Model, founded by Jane Goodal, focuses on best-practices in Service Learning to inspire compassion and action in young changemakers in 60 countries.
Healing Forest
Healing Forest shows people how to become calmer, healthier, and more resilient through nature ideas, walks, games, meditations, and relationship-nourishing practices.
Patagonia Provisions
Patagonia Provisions offers delicious, responsibly sourced food along with recipes and stories of cooking, eating, and adventure.
Outdoor Afro
Outdoor Afro celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature through year-round adventures that strengthen relationships to land, water, and wildlife.
Latino Outdoors
Latino Outdoors inspires and connects communities to the outdoors, centering on culture, celebrating family and heritage, and uplifting leadership through the outdoor experience.
LGBTQ Outdoors
LGBTQ Outdoors connects the LGBTQIA+ community with nature through inclusive hikes, camping trips, local chapter events, and outdoor gatherings where everyone can explore, heal, and belong outside.
Singita
If you want a luxury African safari, go with Singita. They are long-time stewards of 30,000 acres and now actively partner to preserve and enhance biodiversity of over 1million more acres. A truly inpiring mission driven by Long Run's 4C sustainability framework comprising: Conservation, Community, Culture and Commerceing. This is the most good your travel dollars can do!
American Prairie
A pioneering rewilding initiative restoring native grasslands and keystone species while offering immersive lodging and education.
Rewilding Argentina
Restores Iberá Wetlands and other regions through species reintroduction, habitat recovery, and conservation tourism.
Knepp Wildland Foundation
Rewilded 3,500 acre farmland with safari-style learning experiences, cabins, glamping and treehouses, in England.
African Parks
Manages and restores national parks with wildlife reintroductions and eco-tourism integration. Visit the 19 managed parks.
Wildlife Alliance
Protects the Cambodia, Cardamom rainforest through ranger programs and conservation-linked eco-lodge stays. Community project funding, wildlife rescue and more.
Tanda Afrika
Premium safari specialist travel group with destinations in Africa, Asia, South America, Europe and more. Bespoke experiences designed to forge a unbreakable connection between you and the natural world. TANDA = LOVE in Zulu.
Maasai
400,000 acres owned by the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, partnered with indigenous people, provides carbon-negative safaris powered by solar energy and electric safari vehicles, combining luxury, authenticity, adventure, and education.
The Long Run
Global network of nature-positive tourism operators committed to biodiversity restoration and regenerative business since 2009.
Lodge Caleta Gonzales (Pumalín Douglas Tompkins National Park)
Family operated lodging and tours in one of the world’s largest private-to-public park restorations and protected tourism models, in Chile, named after the late founder of Patagonia, Doug Tompson.
Trees for Life (Scotland)
Restores Scotland’s native forests while hosting conservation volunteers.
True Travel
Luxury Tailor-made travel agency focused on eco-lodges, and true nature immersion with wewilding and community support giving through their foundation.
Big Wild Adventures
Guided Backpack trips in the most beautiful wilderness lands of the American West and Alaska. 48 years in business.
Collective Retreats
Select from 70 exclusive deep nature retreats.