Jesse Remer: Your Certified Forest Therapy Guide
Your guide Jesse Remer is a Certified Forest Therapy Guides with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT). Jesse is an international doula trainer, flower essence alchemist and has led women's circles for over twenty years. She is the founder of Forest Therapy PDX and Mother Tree International in Portland, OR and a visionary in the health field. She brings her skills as a forest therapy guide, doula, trainer, educator, speaker, writer, change agent, advocate and resource to support women's health.
Her first encounters with nature were in as a child forest bathing in the deep Redwood Forests of Northern California, Her connection to nature both as a source of healing and wellbeing grew with her years of birth doula practice under Mother Tree International. She healed her own Postpartum Anxiety through an intensive Sit Spot journey with the trees of the Lower Columbia Gorge and then then later she found her dendrophile family. with the ANFT. She resides on a 5 acre farm on the banks of Powell Butte Nature Park with her kids, and a petting zoo of mini donkey, pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep dog and forest friends . See more about Jesse at: www.mothertreebirth.com, www.3flowershealing.com, www.jesseremer.com
Ruban Lawrence, Forest Therapy Guide:
I believe that time spent in forests is so good for all aspects of our being - mind, body, and spirit. My primary work to date has been in the software/IT field, and I have found that time spent in forests has been a great counterbalance to the omnipresence of technology in our lives today. In my personal life, my time in the forest helped me thrive in life again after being diagnosed with a life-altering ear condition wherein the sounds of daily life became excruciatingly loud for me. All of these things are what ultimately drew me to ANFT Forest Therapy Guiding work. I look forward to working with you, and helping you deepen your own unique connection with the forest.