💖Peaceful✌️8 miles Wellness Hike🥾 Land of Medicine🌱Buddha🪷

Hello Nature Lovers, Let's meet up and go on a green exercise wellness hike, enjoy the natural beauty of the healing mountains at Land of Medicine Buddha🪷 redwood forests for our physical health & Mental Well-being😇

Blue is associated with purity and healing.
Medicine Buddha is typically depicted as the color of lapis lazuli or blue, which symbolizes his power to dispel disease. He is seated on a lotus flower, which represents his purity and wisdom.

The Short Story of the Medicine Buddha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Qcf8OgKPU

The 'Enchanted Forest" loop at the Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, an environmentally conscious meditation and retreat center, has a series of sacred terraces including prayer wheels, chimes and a gong.

Eight Verses Trail
Their signature Eight Verses Trail offers an opportunity to meditate on unique thought transformation (lojong) verses in a peaceful and restorative outdoor setting.

Near the retreat, there is a short trail called "Eight Verses Pilgrimage Trail" providing people with the opportunity to meditate on thought transformation in a peaceful and picturesque outdoor setting. From there, a beautiful 6 mile loop will take you up to the top of the ridge and then back around to parking. https://www.theoutbound.com/san-francisco/hiking/hike-the-land-of-medicine-buddha-loop

*MeeetUp: 9am Front of Bookstore & Giftshop
*Hike time: 9:30am
GPS: https://goo.gl/maps/PdwWT3wwXLYsf1i29
5800 Prescott Rd, Soquel, CA 95073

Parking is limited, so please carpool if you can!
*Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message not in the message board. Thank you! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/6s8nrf

Level: Moderate+
Route: Loop
Distance: 7-8 miles
Hiking: 3.5-5 hours (extra time to enjoy the beautiful and peaceful place)
Elevation: 1178 ft
View: Medicine Buddhas, Temples, Redwood Trees Forest, River...
Dog: On Leash
Parking Free: We're hiking at a Private Property $5 donation to the book store

Wear Hiking shoes
Bring Smiles for Miles, Water, lunch, Hiking poles, layers...

*Requested contribution suggested the amount of $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​*Note: Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. To support/keep our group alive and active, You can help! Dr.Heidi kindly asks for a contribution, accepting cash in person or Venmo *before the event weak phone service on the trailhead Please take a few minutes to contribute the link to my Venmo profile:
Beautiful Ocean https://venmo.com/HealingSea
Your contribution will help us cover our costs and make our Meetups going even better.

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

Optional: Maybe After hike late lunch or early dinner place coming soon...

*DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system, or if you've been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19.

We are an intermediate hike group. Please be ready to keep up hiking with us 8 miles without any health issues. If you don't workout, hiking a minimum of 8 miles regularly, this hiking event may not be a good fit for you.

*LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

*Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

*DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.

If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 8 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
*Please don't just walk in Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝