Kate Bast

Always a star gazer, sunset chaser and calm-seeker, Kate Bast is a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT). She realized that her happy place is in the woods, and Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, was her antidote to stress and anxiety during 25 stressful years in the publishing industry. Today, she shares Nature's healing benefits through her practice Shinrin-Yoku Madison, and helps individuals of all ages and abilities, private groups, organizations and workplaces, find the calm, balm, meaning and connection -- with Nature. Kate guides walks of various distances and durations in the Greater Madison Area, and throughout Wisconsin. "When we tend Nature, it tends us."