Forest Spaces follows the Mori family as they move to Greenhollow — a small town surrounded by ancient trees — and slowly, without meaning to, begin to heal.
Follow the Story →Forest Spaces is a hand-animated mini-drama — 12 episodes, 5 to 8 minutes each — in which every plot point is quietly backed by peer-reviewed science. The Mori family doesn't know why they feel better. We do.
Think Mushishi meets Mr. Rogers — if Mr. Rogers had a research budget and a complicated relationship with grief.
A fictional forest town. All the science is real.
They came to start over. The forest had other plans.
Every episode. Every claim. Sourced. Open. Free.
Within minutes of entering a forest environment, measurable stress hormones begin to fall. Not metaphorically. In your blood.
Natural killer cell activity — your body's frontline immune defense — increases after time in forested environments. The effect lasts days.
The parasympathetic nervous system — rest, digest, repair — activates in response to phytoncides, birdsong, and fractal patterns in nature.
Japanese hospitals prescribe forest bathing. Finnish pediatricians recommend outdoor time. Korean insurers cover nature therapy. This isn't fringe anymore.
"I've spent years in forests studying what they do to people. I wanted to tell that story in a way that felt more like sitting beside a fire than reading a paper."
Forest therapy guide, nature-based health researcher, and the mind behind Forest Spaces. Tara has spent years in the field — literally — studying the relationship between natural environments and human wellbeing.
Forest Spaces is her attempt to make that science as accessible as a bedtime story. And as honest as a late-night conversation with someone you trust.
More about Tara →The Mori family arrives in Greenhollow. Nobody feels better yet. The trees don't care.
The youngest Mori child starts sleeping through the night. His parents don't know why. We do.
Nana Mori walks the same forest path every morning. Something starts to change in her blood. She calls it prayer.
Nine more episodes. Grief, immunity, attention, connection, wildfire, and a forest that keeps showing up.
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