I am Oh Long Yuan.
2025 has been a year of healing, of learning to slow down, and of gently piecing things back together after a season of planned and unplanned change. Alongside the many people and things on this journey, nature has been one of my most patient companions. In the quiet presence of trees and open skies, I found space to breathe again, to soften, and to remember that I don't have to carry everything alone. I breathed into a new rhythm.
It was in these moments that I began to understand what many guides speak of: the forest is the therapist, and the guide simply opens the doors. Sitting with a tree, listening to water, or noticing the wind became ways of grounding, or remembering, of coming home to myself. Read about one of my personal experience as a forest therapy participant here.
In mid-2025, I began training as a forest therapy guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT). Through ohmori, I hope to share the same invitation with you, not to fix or achieve, but to meet nature as is, and perhaps to find in its quiet wisdom what you most need in this moment.
The name ohmori is a play on my surname (Oh) and mori (森), the Japanese word for forest. It honours the Japanese origins of Shinrin-yoku (森林浴 or forest bathing), from which forest therapy draws its roots. Interestingly, when spoken aloud, it sounds like omori (大森) which are the Japanese words for large forest - a fitting reflection of the spaciousness and generosity that nature offers.
Get to know me beyond ohmori here.
About Your Guide and ohmori
The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) is the leading organisation dedicated to training and certifying forest therapy guides. Founded in 2012 by Amos Clifford, a wilderness guide with a background in counselling, ANFT grew from a vision to make the healing benefits of nature more widely accessible.
Drawing inspiration from the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku (森林浴 or forest bathing), ANFT developed its own approach, Relational Forest Therapy. This practice is grounded in research and emphasises slowing down, awakening the senses, and restoring our relationship with nature. At the heart of ANFT's philosophy is the belief that "the forest is the therapist; the guide opens the door."
Today, ANFT has trained thousands of guides in more than 60 countries, setting professional standards and building a global community. ANFT's work ensures that forest therapy is not just a wellness trend, but a recognised, structured practice you can trust.
