The Slow Life Experience

06/10/2025

Sunday, October 26, 2-3:30pm at Yoyogi, Park in Tokyo. Step away from the digital screens for a few hours and enjoy a good book in the park with a community of other like-minded kin. Tokyo Unplugged Village is the growing community of individuals who are interested in gathering, connecting, and recharging without electronic devices. We’ll rest in the grass with our current read or favorite book and enjoy time devoted away from our digital devices in kinship with one another. 📚🌳✨
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This event is free to attend, however registration is encouraged. Those who pre register for this gathering will receive a complementary UNPLUGGED mini nap sack to store your smartphone away for when you want to intentionally engage in life without your device and to encourage the practice of less screen time! You will also receive event details, including exact meeting place and a reminder a few days before our gathering.

This event is hosted and coordinated by Michelle, owner and founder of Slow Life Experience and the Japan-based Director for Unplugged Collaborative/Global Day of Unplugging Movement. She offers community connection events focused on slowing down and connecting with self and others.

TO REGISTER: https://www.theslowlifeexperience.com/book-online

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05/10/2025

Another of Tokyo nature’s start-of-Autumn-markers: kinmokusei 金木犀, osmanthus or sweet olive. The smell of this bloom is intoxicating and wafts through the air even when you can’t see a tree in sight. A sweet candy, peach-like aroma 🧡.

Slowing down to explore place and land through our senses cultivates a deeper connection with the nature of present. Today it was my sense of smell invited to play with the lure of blooming osmanthus. 🏵️🧡✨

#金木犀

04/10/2025

The early morning quiet of Tokyo blankets the city in a peaceful ease. We’ll meander in the morning dew to the sounds of the birds in this vast urban green space of Yoyogi Park connecting in with the natural morning rhythms. Forest Bathing is the opportunity to slow down, connect with nature, and rekindle our relationship with the land. We will end our time together with a tea circle centered on community connection. Limited to 6 people. Pre-registration required.

Your guide is Michelle, a trained & certified Shinrin Yoku guide who specializes in guiding people to slow down, connect with their body, and commune with nature.

SPECIAL NOTE: This early morning forest bathing session takes place just before the Earth Autumn Garden event that will be held in the nearby Yoyogi Event Plaza from 10am-5pm. The Earth Autumn Garden is a free community-oriented festival focusing on ecological and organic lifestyles. It will feature live music, handmade crafts, and eco-friendly products. A nice pairing with our morning nature connection.

WHEN: Saturday, October 25
TIME: 7:30am-9:30am
WHERE: Yoyogi Park, Tokyo
TO REGISTER: https://www.theslowlifeexperience.com/book-online

02/10/2025

A life to be celebrated, remembered, and cherished for centuries that come. ❤️

30/09/2025

The red spider lily, higanbana, begins to appear around Japan at Fall equinox. They are on time this year and abundant in my neighborhood. Their meaning is associated with death and final goodbyes, a reminder of the continued cycle of life. What are the signs of Autumn emerging in your world ?

27/09/2025

Sometimes it’s obvious and other times a little (or a lot) less clear, just like life. Yet a path is there for you, and waiting amongst the trees, on the prairie, in the sand, amongst the weeds and groves. Because we are meant to be entangled in the brush and vines, feet kissing the soil, with flowers and leaves in our hair. Unplug and get out there. 💚

25/09/2025

Step away from screen life and into nature to recharge your batteries in the expansive and lush Showa Kinen Park! We’ll bicycle through the breezy bike paths of Showa Kinen Park, stop off in the diverse patches of nature to forest bathe and immerse in the greenery, and finally land under the trees for a relaxing tea and picnic!

Showa Kinen Park is the largest park and green space in Tokyo consisting of 165 hectacres of rich and diverse landscape filled with many bike and walking paths. Pre-registration required. Bike rental/park entrance will be the participants responsibility.

This event is promoting UNPLUGGING from digital life and PLUGGING into nature. Join the movement and our growing Tokyo Unplugged Village where we gather, connect and recharge as a community without our digital devices.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.theslowlifeexperience.com/book-online

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22/09/2025

Early rising on this Fall Equinox in preparation for today’s Equinox Forest Bathing session. One of the best things about facilitating forest bathing for others is the preparation; from picking herbs to boiling water to making reflection scrolls, preparation is a ritual in itself. Looking forward to meeting the participants on the land later today to honor a day of equal light to equal dark. ✨

15/09/2025

I had the honor of being a guest on the Wellness with Juanita Podcast here in Japan where Juanita and I got to talk about my favorite subjects of slowing down, embodiment, nature connection and general well-being. ❤️

You can have a listen on Apple or Spotify or even popover to YouTube to watch/listen.

To catch more from Juanita and her many offerings including a wealth of insight by her and others on her podcasts, follow

Link to podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YyPjOAF-A&t=1176s

Thank you Juanita for inviting me as your guest! Much love and appreciation for all that you do!

12/09/2025

Slow making is my love language. ❤️ I adore process, using my hands and body, gathering inspiration from nature, and problem-solving with intuition through new techniques. Here’s my first hand at tapestry weaving on a small hand made loom by encouraged and mentored by my artist friend and weaver extraordinaire, Mima of on Salt Spring Island.

I’m looking forward to some partnerships with nature and the land in future weaving play. Never underestimate what the combination of curiosity, play, and creativity can bring you towards. ❤️

05/09/2025

I am excited and pleased to be serving as the Japan-based Director for Unplugged Collaborative, the non-profit organization and global initiative for the Unplugged Movement inspiring individuals and communities to gather, connect, and recharge without electronic devices.

I have been meeting with key community facilitators around Tokyo who are doing great work in fostering connection in ways that are not centered around digital devices and emphasizing human connection. And my vision is that future partnerships and collaboration will bring about some amazing community experiences.

Look for events and gatherings by me focused in my language and expertise of “slow practices” that foster connection to self, body, nature, and ritual, as well as partnerships in the Tokyo and Japan-wide community that bring people together forming our Unplugged Village in this corner of the world!

Events will lead up to the global celebration of Global Day of Unplugging scheduled for the first weekend of March 2026. 🌏🔌✨

To read more about this initiative follow and
and visit their webpage for a wealth of information on this initiative in your part of the world if you are not in Japan.

If you would like to like to partner with me, have an idea, or know of community spaces in/around Tokyo, please reach out with a message. It takes a village to create change!

01/09/2025

Join me, trained & certified Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) guide, for a slow, thoughtful, and intentional immersion into nature on the Fall Equinox at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen National Gardens in Tokyo.

As day and night are equally balanced, the Fall Equinox is the transitioning of light into shorter and cooler days. This time of transitioning from summer into winter is a perfect opportunity to slow ourselves, reflect, and allow time in nature to reveal to us its metaphors. Come and enjoy a morning of honoring and celebrating the Autumn Equinox where we will playfully engage in nature's abundance. Ending with a tea circle honoring this auspicious day. Limited to 6 people. Pre-registration required.

TUESDAY, SEPT 23, 9:30-11:30am.

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