Forest bathing in Fife

Fife's woods come in two kinds: big Forestry and Land Scotland pine forests and small estate dens. Tentsmuir Forest, in the far north-east corner between Tayport and Leuchars, is Scots and Corsican pine on dunes beside a nature reserve and a long empty beach. Devilla Forest near Kincardine and Blairadam Forest near Kelty are pine and spruce with lochs and pockets of old oak. Lochore Meadows Country Park in the old coalfield has young woodland around a loch. In the middle of the county the Falkland estate's Maspie Den is a wooded gorge of beech and fir below the Lomond Hills, and Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline has a wooded glen under the abbey.

A session is a slow two to three hours in a small group, most of it still, and Fife's variety means it might be among pines with the sea just audible or in a sheltered den in winter. Each guide's profile has their dates, venues and prices.

Tentsmuir's Kinshaldy car park, which charges, gives flat forest tracks and the beach within minutes. Lochore Meadows is free, with a visitor centre, cafe and level paths round the loch, and is easy from Edinburgh and Dunfermline.