![]() ![]() The Zen Meditation Garden will be designed with perfectly placed rocks to emphasize simplicity and structure. It will be designed to respect the privacy and sanctity of the garden. The Prayer Garden will be designed to offer our families a quiet retreat to re-collect and re-connect with God’s creation, restore a sense of calm to their life in transition, and allow God to speak to their soul. The Children’s Gathering Garden will be a special area designed just for the children to relax read a book or spend some quiet time with a parent in a style just for them. Comfortable seating will be available so they can relax and enjoy the fresh air. ![]() The Central Patio Garden will serve as a space where families can socialize or take a class such as meditation and relaxation techniques, tai chi, yoga and other special events. We envision four major sections to the garden with several smaller areas where our homeless families and their children can reflect, relax, and start healing their mind, body and soul while in this transitional stage of their lives. It improves the immune function, bone strength, wound healing, cognition, concentration, emotional resilience, empathy, vitality, relaxation, mood, and satisfaction. Studies show that access to nature and gardens promotes health through reduction in stress, depression, myopia, pain, fatigue, aggression, impulsivity, and other symptoms. Our Healing Garden will be designed to provide psychological, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits to our adult families and their children. We are investing in them and their needs with our Healing Garden Project. “At Deep Roots we recognize this problem and that is why our families are a priority. Becoming homeless is traumatizing for people of any age, but it is important to recognize that, when young children experience trauma, there is a relatively short window in their developmental process to address the trauma before it becomes a serious problem that affects them as adults. ![]()
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