Specialized Services with Lasting Impact

Some projects call for more than a single session. Somatic Ecotherapy supports land-based initiatives, institutional partnerships, and speaking engagements that help people reconnect with place, regulate stress, and create meaningful experiences that endure.

Restoring and certifying trails is one of our specialized services.

Support for Places, Programs, and Public-Facing Experiences

Somatic Ecotherapy offers specialized services for organizations, retreat centers, land stewards, planners, healthcare institutions, and event organizers looking for something deeper than a one-time wellness activity.

These offerings are designed to create lasting value. In some cases, that means helping shape a forest therapy trail people return to for years. In others, it means delivering a talk or experiential session that gives an audience practical tools they can use right away.

At the center of both pathways is the same commitment: clear guidance, embodied presence, and nature-based work that is both accessible and meaningful.

Forest Therapy Trails

Consulting and certification support for parks, retreat centers, healthcare settings, campuses, and other landscapes that want to offer a restorative, sensory-rich experience of place.

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Speaking

Keynotes and experiential talks for conferences, healthcare organizations, retreat centers, community groups, and corporate teams on stress regulation, tech burnout, forest therapy, and nature-based wellbeing.

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Close-up look of a fern off of a trail.

Once we claim we KNOW it, or know how nature provides... it kills the moment and magic.

For Land Stewards and Institutions

A Forest Therapy Trail Is More Than a Path

A forest therapy trail is a carefully designed, sensory-rich pathway that invites people to slow down, reconnect with the land, and experience nature as a restorative partner. Unlike a conventional trail, the goal is not simply to get somewhere. The goal is to be fully somewhere.

Certification support helps organizations shape trails that are safe, welcoming, restorative, and aligned with international standards. It also creates new possibilities for guided walks, self-guided experiences, retreats, staff wellness, donor engagement, and community programming. Explore: Trail Certification Process

  • Supports slowness, sensory engagement, and relationship with place
  • Creates a lasting wellness and stewardship asset
  • Expands programming opportunities across audiences
  • Strengthens the meaning and usefulness of the land you already steward
Wendy Figone, leading a group through a nature therapy exercise

The nervous system does not end at the skin; it is in constant conversation with the ecosystem it inhabits.

For Events, Conferences, and Programs

Talks That People Can Feel, Not Just Hear

Wendy’s speaking work blends insight with direct experience. Her presentations are designed to help people understand what stress is doing to the body, attention, and nervous system, while also giving them practical ways to regulate, refocus, and reconnect.

Topics may explore tech burnout, prolonged sitting, fascia and stress regulation, forest therapy as lifestyle support, and the restorative role of nature in modern life. Talks can be delivered indoors, outdoors, or paired with experiential elements for deeper engagement. Explore: Speaking

  • Practical and accessible, not overly clinical
  • Strong fit for conferences, healthcare settings, teams, and retreat programs
  • Can be offered as a standalone talk or paired experience
  • Designed to leave audiences with tools they can actually use

Selected Experience & Affiliations

Wendy’s work is shaped by ongoing study, respected professional communities, retreat partnerships, and applied experience across wellness, healthcare, and nature-based programming.

Training & Affiliations

Association of Nature and Forest Therapy
Stanford C-CARE
Nature and Health Alliance

Venues & Program Experience

Chaminade Resort & Spa
Castanoa
Wisdom 2.0
San Mateo County Parks Foundation

Additional programming experience includes myofascial therapy, retreat facilitation, community partnerships, and wellness programming in development with healthcare organizations.