Forest bathing in East Renfrewshire

East Renfrewshire's woodland sits in the glens and around the reservoirs on Glasgow's southern edge. Rouken Glen Park in Giffnock is the one everyone knows, with a wooded gorge, a waterfall on the Auldhouse Burn and mature trees around the pond and lawns. Dams to Darnley Country Park, between Barrhead and Darnley, has old and young woodland around a chain of reservoirs and along the Brock Burn. South of there the land rises to the Whitelee moors, where plantations around the wind farm give long, quiet tracks.

A session in a park like Rouken Glen is two to three hours of very slow walking in a small group, with long stops to listen to the burn and watch the trees, and a quiet close. It works as well in a suburban wood as a remote one. Each guide's profile sets out their dates, venues and prices.

Rouken Glen is the easy start: Whitecraigs railway station is next to the park, there is free parking, a cafe and a garden centre, and the paths round the pond are level before the glen steps begin.