Forest bathing in Isle of Anglesey

Anglesey is a low, windy island with little old woodland, so what it has is distinctive. Newborough Forest in the south west is the big one: Corsican pine planted on the dunes in the 1940s, home to red squirrels, with Llanddwyn beach at the far end. Pentraeth Forest on Mynydd Llwydiarth is smaller and quieter, mixed conifer and broadleaf. On the Menai Strait the National Trust's Plas Newydd has sheltered woodland garden walks, and in Llangefni the Dingle, Nant y Pandy, is a wooded limestone valley on the edge of the town.

Pines behave differently from oaks in a forest bathing session: the scent is stronger, the light more even and the floor soft. A session here is a slow couple of hours among the pines with a handful of other people, more standing and sitting than walking. Guides' profiles below give their dates and prices.

Newborough is the place to start, with a large car park (there is a charge) at the end of the toll road and flat forest tracks that reach the beach in twenty minutes. The Dingle in Llangefni is handy without a car, though its boardwalk is being replaced in stages and some sections may be closed.