🥾 Ecotherapy Walk 🌿

Learn Practical Techniques to Maximize the Benefits of Your Time in Nature

We all intuitively know that time in nature makes us feel better. But few people understand why — or how to intentionally access nature’s powerful effects on our overall wellbeing and nervous system.

This guided walk will introduce practical, science-informed techniques to help you transform a simple outdoor stroll into a deeply restorative experience.

During our time together, you’ll learn how to:

• 🌸 Use natural visual patterns to influence brainwave activity

• 🧘🏽 Reduce stress through terrain navigation and bilateral movement

• 🍃 Tune into natural soundscapes to support flexible thinking

• 🔄️ Reset mental focus and ease cognitive fatigue

You’ll leave with tools you can apply anytime you step outside — whether on a hike, neighborhood walk, or lunch break in the park.

Time & Date

May 16, 2026 | 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Meeting Point

Barton Creek Greenbelt – Spyglass Trailhead
1600 Spyglass Drive
Austin, Texas 78746

What to Wear & Bring

• Comfortable walking shoes

• Drinking water

• Sunglasses, bug spray, and sunscreen, if needed

Please note: Part of the walk includes uneven, rocky terrain (remainder is on paved trails).

About Chi-Wei Chang

Chi-Wei Chang is founder of Wind Water Wild and serves on the board of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy. She is certified in nature-informed therapy, ecotherapy, and wilderness first aid, and draws on her own experience of time in nature as a steady source of grounding and balance that has helped her through a career of context shifting between countries, cultures, and languages. An avid hiker and landscape photographer, she is often planning her next adventure, preferably somewhere with cold weather and expansive wild spaces.