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Seminaarinmäki Well-being path

Seminaarinmäki Well-being path is designed to give you a little relaxing break during your school or work day and also bring you closer to nature.

Table of contents

Seminaarinmäki Well-being path consists of four different excersises scattered around the Seminary Park. The well-being path project is a collaboration between Jyväskylä University Botanical Garden, Jyuniorit (junior university) and Jyväskylä university students of psychology. Well-being path celebrates the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ 160 years jubilee and the 140 years old Seminary Park. The funding of this project came from Jyväskylä University Foundation (Jyväskylän Yliopistosäätiö).

The exercises are free to use for every student, member of staff or visitor in the area. Hopefully it will give you a little relaxing break during your school or work day and also bring you closer to nature. You can find the exercises translated into English and the map of the locations below on this site. The QR codes on the exercise signposts will direct you to these pages.

You will find the signposts with the exercises located aroud the Seminary park (map below). You can do the exercises in any order you like, and every exercise will take about 10-15 minutes each. You can find more info and background studies on every exercise here also (just click the exercise open from the links below).

A map of the Well-being path

Exercises

Open the background research and exercises below:
Exercise 1. Villa Rana Garden (lower slope next to the hammocks): VALUES AND COMMITTED ACTION
Exercise 2: Paja-building (I) (Old forge, backyard next to the stone seatings): STONES OF GRATITUDE
Exercise 3: Forest path on the northern slope (between R building parking plot and G building): WELL-BEING FROM NATURE: AN EXERCISE FOR OBSERVING NATURE
Exercise 4: G-rakennus: G-Building (pavement behind the P-parking lot sign, front yard): MINDFUL MOVEMENT

Materials by:

Students of psychology (JYU): Tiina Salmirinne, Linnea Simulainen, Venla Ruuhonen and Katariina Räihä

JYUniorit: coordinator Jonna Timonen

Botanical garden: coordinator Hanna Keljo

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Jyväskylä University Botanical Garden

The Jyväskylä University Botanical Garden consists of a park of nearly 36 hectares, including the green spaces of all three JYU campuses, Seminaarinmäki, Mattilanniemi, and Ylistönrinne.

Events in the areas of the Botanical Garden

Several guided tours are organised annually in the areas of the Botanical Garden with various themes. We also organise various events to special audiences.

A self-guided tour of the Seminaarinmäki garden

Welcome to the JYU Botanical Garden! The outdoor areas are open for everyone at all times, and you can find plant name plates especially on Seminaarinmäki and in Aalto Park.