Environmental Wellbeing

by Samantha Anderson

The Winter Park Center for Health and Wellbeing believes that our environment affects our inner wellness as much as things such as physical health, spiritual health, social health, etc. In order to stimulate your senses and help you reconnect to the outside world, the center has built seven different gardens around their property, to encourage you to get outside and enjoy the fresh air, while re-centering yourself through an immersion into nature.

​The gardens include the Welcome Garden, the Meditation Garden, the Terraced Garden, the Reflection Pool, the Aromatherapy Garden, the Bamboo Garden, and the Commons. The Welcome Garden is full of edible herbs and vegetables that are all used in the café. The Meditation and Bamboo Gardens, as well as the Reflection Pool, offer areas more secluded, to stimulate serenity and tranquility.

​The Center also believes that the environment which you spend your time indoors is important as well, as in the Commons, offering a space for “both passage and place”, lined with tree-like columns, a canopy like ceiling, and a welcoming place for socialization or relaxation. There are plenty of places located within the center that will invoke a sense of peace within whatever space you are in.