Music for Healing: Forest Bathing // Sound Walk (Prospect Park Forest)
room 6 ECHOES
Music for Healing: Forest Bathing // Sound Walk is a free, geolocation-based audio experience by interdisciplinary artist Angelica Olstad, supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Using the Echoes app, participants enter the Prospect Park forest to unlock a non-linear, choose-your-own-adventure sound walk inspired by the principles of forest bathing. Healing music, ambient soundscapes, and gentle prompts for journaling, reflection, and meditation appear like hidden “easter eggs” throughout the path, encouraging visitors to slow down, reconnect with nature, and engage with the work in their own way. Designed as an accessible public healing arts offering, the experience activates as soon as participants step into the Prospect Park Forest, inviting calm, rest, and relaxation.
A few things to know: - The music track is the main feature of the experience. It will loop as long as you stay in the designated area. Refer to your app to know if you are in the designated sound walk location. If you leave the designated area, the music will stop and when you re-enter the track will re-start from the beginning. - The music track is 1 hour 29 minutes long. You can stay as long or as short as you want. If you want to listen to the piece in its entirety, just find new paths to walk within the designated area. By doing so, you'll be practicing the art of a walking meditation! - The experience can happen with headphones but the recommended experience is playing on a bluetooth speaker so that you can hear the sounds of nature mixed with the music. Please be mindful of a few things: if on a bluetooth, keep the volume at a reasonable so as not to disrupt the walk of other participants. If you are wearing headphones, be aware of your surroundings and others on the paths. - There are easter egg moments embedded in the experience. As soon as you hear the prompt, stop and follow the instructions. Once you leave the designated area the prompt will stop. Again, be mindful or your surroundings.
If you enjoyed your experience be sure to tag @angelicaolstad and @musicforhealing on Instagram with your soundwalk pictures!
Enjoy!
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The Echoes
Where Dreams Float When I Sleep
Stop A - Arriving in your Body
Here, we arrive in the body by bringing awareness to physical sensations.
Stop B - Sound as a Nervous System Reset
Here, we listen to nature and music as a way to reset the nervous system.
Stop C - Seeing Natural Patterns
Here, we learn to find calm by observing the sacred patterns that nature has to offer.
Stop D - Touch and Grounded Presence
Here we learn about tactile grounding and the benefits of touching natural objects.
Stop E - Breath, Trees, and Co-Regulation
Here, we learn to co-regulate with nature
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