Sylvotherapy is not merely a technique—it is a philosophy of life.
It is based on the idea that nature is not merely a landscape we rush past, but a living space that speaks to us, if we give it the time to be heard.
Sylvotherapy is not about distance or pace, but presence – stopping, breathing, allowing our senses to remember what it feels like to experience nature around us rather than just looking at it.
Through specialized experiential activities, we release daily stress, enhance concentration, and are then given the opportunity to listen to our inner self using nature as a reflection.
45' - 120'
5 - 15
15+
(Accompanied by an adult)
The Sylvotherapy routes of The Go-Ahead are designed in such a way as to help manage the stress or grief encountered in modern everyday life, through contact with nature and activity within it.
They last from 45 minutes up to 2 hours, depending on the route. Participants usually range from 5 to 15 people, aged 18 and over. For larger groups, an additional guide participates at an extra cost. Minors aged 15 and over can participate upon request, but only when accompanied by an adult.
The Go-Ahead is the personal project of
Dionysia Galenianou
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY
Dionysia is a Mountain Guide with a special love for gorges, a Cultural Events Organizer specializing in festivals, and an International Relations specialist with a focus on the Middle East.
She has many years of experience in various art forms both as an organizer and an artist, while over the last decade she became deeply involved in hiking, ultimately becoming a professional Mountain Guide and a member of the Association of Cretan Mountain Guides.
A special part of her journey is her role as a Mountain Guide, through which she cultivated a deep, experiential relationship with the nature of Crete and beyond. Through this exact contact, and via personal experience and intuition, she discovered the Japanese technique of Forest Bathing (shinrin-yoku) in recent years—a discovery that led her to study Sylvotherapy, an evolution of the former and more widely adopted in the western world.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Dionysia founded The Go-Ahead, offering a program of short experiential Sylvotherapy routes.
Her goal is to offer modern city-dwellers a contact with nature distinct from simple hiking—a reconnection with the natural environment, the possibility of a more manageable contemporary lifestyle, and, above all, a return to oneself.
