Forest bathing in Perth and Kinross

Perthshire calls itself Big Tree Country, and around Dunkeld it earns the name. The Hermitage, a National Trust for Scotland site just west of the town, has towering Douglas firs along the River Braan to the Black Linn falls, and the Birnam Oak nearby is a survivor of the forest in Macbeth. Craigvinean Forest above it and Faskally Wood at Pitlochry are Forestry and Land Scotland woods of mixed conifer and broadleaf around lochs and rivers. At Perth itself Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park has mixed woodland and cliff-top views over the Tay, and up Loch Rannoch the Black Wood is one of the largest remnants of old Caledonian pine.

Sessions are two to three hours in a small group, slow and largely still, and the scale of the trees around Dunkeld makes it a natural place for them. Each guide's profile has dates, venues and prices.

The Hermitage is the obvious first visit: a National Trust for Scotland car park with a charge for non-members, a level path to the falls, and Dunkeld and Birnam station about a mile away. Kinnoull Hill has free car parks ten minutes from Perth city centre.