Unyoked Customer Research - Mental Wellbeing

1. 94.4% of Unyoked customers reported improvements to their mental wellbeing following an Unyoked stay. Stats as of Aug 31st 2021 - Sample size 198.

Unyoked Customer Research - Benefits to Creativity

1. 61.5% of Unyoked customers reported finding themselves being more creative following an Unyoked stay. Stats as of Aug 31st 2021 - Sample size 13.

Physical Health: Reduces Blood Pressure

1. Spending time in nature for at least 30 minutes throughout the week could reduce how many people have high blood pressure by up to 9% (Shanahan et al., 2016). This is important because high blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and other serious diseases.
2. A study of 280 people in Japan found simply viewing a natural landscape for ~15-minutes not only reduced stress hormone levels by 13.4%, but it also lowered average pulse rate by 6% and blood pressure by 2% (Park et al., 2009).

Physical Health: Improves Immune Function & Pain Tolerance

1. Spending time in nature switches our body into “rest and digest” mode (the opposite of “fight, flight or freeze mode”!), which means our body can focus on growing, restoring, and improving our immune system (Kuo, 2015).
2. Getting out of the city and into the wild once a month has a long term positive impact on your immune system (Li, 2009). Specifically, breathing in microbes found in nature can improve your body's ability to fight nasty bugs and germs (Wu & Wu, 2012).
3. Patients awaiting surgery who were exposed to nature sights and sounds were 43% more likely to report higher pain tolerance compared to other patients (Diette et al., 2003).

Psychological Benefits: Enhances Health & Well-being

1. A study of ~20,000 people found those who spend at least 2 hrs in nature throughout the week report consistently higher levels of health and well-being compared to those who don’t (White et al., 2019).
2. People who spend at least 2 hours in nature throughout the week are 59% more likely to report good health and 23% more likely to report high well-being compared to those who spend less time in nature (White et al., 2019)
3. The health and well-being benefits associated with spending at least 2 hrs in nature throughout the week is similar to health and well-being benefits associated with: (a) living in an area of low vs. high deprivation; (b) being employed in a high vs. low social grade occupation; and (c) achieving vs. not achieving recommended levels of physical activity throughout the week (White et al., 2019).
4. 94% of people who took part in a nature-based project reported mental health benefits associated with being in nature (Mind, 2007). For example, participants commented “I feel better about myself and a sense of achievement”, “I am more relaxed, have better focus of mind… and greater self-esteem”, “It improves my depression, helps me be more motivated and gives me satisfaction in doing things. Since starting the project I have been able to improve my quality of life. Coming here has helped me overcome most of my problems.”

Psychological Benefits: Reduces Stress

1. Regularly spending time in nature reduces high levels of stress (Ward Thompson et al., 2012).
2. Connecting with nature shifts our bodies into a state of deep relaxation, which improves sleep quality (Shin et al., 2020), boosts our immune system (Li, 2009) and combats the adverse health impacts of stress (Kondo et al., 2018).
3. A review of more than 40 scientific studies provide evidence that spending time outdoors can reduce the negative impacts of stress (Kondo et al., 2018).
4. Our main stress hormone, cortisol, decreases by 21.3% per hour spent immersed in nature (Hunter et al., 2019).
5. Taking a nature pill reduces stress by 21% per hour” (Hunter et al., 2019

Psychological Benefits: Reduces Depression, Anxiety and Anger

1. Spending time in nature is associated with reduced hostility, depression, and anxiety (Morita et al., 2007).
2. Spending time in nature for at least 30 minutes throughout the week could reduce how many people have depression by up to 7% (Shanahan et al., 2016).
3. Exposure to natural environments has been used as an effective treatment for depression and anxiety (Maund et al., 2019).
4. A study investigating the benefits of nature found 71% of participants reported decreased levels of depression following a stroll in nature (Mind, 2007).
5. Simply spending at least 2-hours in a forest environment reduces tension and anxiety by 16%, depression by 12% and anger by 12% (Furuyashiki et al., 2019).

Psychological Benefits: Increases Reflection, Reconnection to Self and Compassion

1. Just one peak experience in nature can promote self-reflection, meaningful insight and reconnection with self (Naor & Mayseless, 2020).
2. Being exposed to natural environments increases positive emotions, ignites our sense of awe and enhances our compassion to others (Zhang et al., 2014).
3. 'I think we are all such workhorses and we all just need and deserve a break! It would be really lovely to normalise breaks and just having fun.' - Sycco, Future Classic

Psychological Benefits: Improves Mood

1. People who are connected to nature tend to be happier and have higher levels of personal growth (Pritchard et al., 2019).
2. People feel happier and more relaxed within 10-minutes of exposure to natural environments (Kondo et al, 2020).
3. A study investigating the benefits of nature found 88% of people experienced an overall improvement in mood following a stroll in nature (Mind, 2007).

Psychological Benefits: Improves Sleep

1. Spending time in nature can increase sleep duration by 30-minutes and sleep efficiency by 8% (Kim et al., 2019)
2. Eleven studies have found that exposure to nature is associated with improved sleep quality and quantity (Shin et al., 2020).
3. An Australian study of ~260,000 people found those who slept in areas surrounded by green space were at a lower risk of short sleep (i.e. < 6 hrs per night), irrespective of other predictors of sleep such as psychological distress or participation in physical activity (Astell-burt et al., 2013).

Cognitive Benefits: Improves Creativity

1. Spending time immersed in a natural environment and disconnecting from technology enhances creativity and improves problem solving skills by up to 50% (Atchley et al, 2012).
2. Exposure to natural environments engages the “default mode” networks of the brain, which are important for psychosocial health, creativity and imagination (Kuhn et al., 2021).

Cognitive Benefits: Improves Attention, Executive Functioning and Memory Performance

1. Modern day living comes hand-in-hand with mental fatigue which limits our ability to direct our attention. Spending time in nature is the perfect antidote to combat this mental fatigue because it restores our capacity to direct attention (Jimenez et al., 2021).
2. Exposure to nature compared to urban environments is associated with improved attention, capacity to switch from one task to another, and memory (Ohly et al., 2016; Bourrier et al., 2018)
3. “Nature can restore deficits in attention arising from overwork or overconcentration, and make people feel and think better” (Hartig et al., 2003)
4. Spending time in nature can improve attention span and memory performance by 20% (Berman et al., 2008)

Brain Health: Important for Brain Development

1. The great outdoors provides opportunities for creativity and discovery which are important components for brain development (King et al., 2003)

Creativity (General)

1. "On bigger projects, I feel like I really need time away to conceptualise. Otherwise, I just feel a little bit aimless." - Ninajirachi

2. "More opportunities like these are perfect. They remove all the systems that we’re used to running on and get back to a primal sense of yourself and what’s around you." - Braille Face

3. “When there's not very much stimulus, you really find an opportunity to look inwards.” - Braille Face

4. “I think [getting back into nature] is one of those things that the more you do it as well, the more you crave getting back out there” - Braille Face.

5. "I always recommend nature time to my mates. Even a 20 minute walk to a park during the day can make all the difference to your capacity to focus for hours on music." - Las Mar

6. "With the omnipresent nature of online work during the lockdowns, I was really craving that sort of disconnection. It was great to just relax and really focus on the sounds around me." - Ex-Olympian

7. "When I'm not making music it's like, ‘Damn, I should do some more stuff.’ And I think there's something about not even having the option to use your gear that’s really different." - Lucianblomkamp

8. "I think this time in nature helps your creativity to flow; it helps you put this into practice, like not forcing brilliance, but you know, allowing it to happen." - Natalia Bojanic, Form Nutrition co-founder

9. "Nature is the ultimate artist! It is an infinite source of inspiration. I like that you can interpret nature both symbolically and literally when you create. Our job as artists is to take time and space in our minds so we can observe and be present as the magic of nature reveals itself." - Tiana Khasi, Field Recordings II

Creativity (Solitude)

1. "I think there's a lot of things that we've lost in the daily grind that can only be found by sitting still for a bit." - Braille Face

2. "Because the cabin is so remote, and it's so open to the outlook with these beautiful large windows, you just felt really in it." - Braille Face

3. "I need to work on my mindfulness, but I don't really take in too much in my city life." - Chloe Kae

4. "I never regret leaving town to get some country air. The cabin is a very special spot and the sense of isolation is incredible for being only 1 hour out of Melbourne!" - Las Mar

5. "It’s really revitalising to have time away from your screens; to sit, listen to what’s around you and process things that have or are going on with your life. Without that time, it’s hard to really forge on and to create good work." - Ex-Olympian (also for Perspective.)

6. "In the city, you really only have an hour when you can get into that zone. I felt time go slow out there like I hadn’t in a really long time. There were just no distractions at all." - Jonti

7. "Digital detoxes are so good. Suddenly 48 hours feels like an entire week. So beneficial to reset like that regularly" - Stefan Hunt, director

8. "I found tapping into this nature also benefited my creative practice, and I feel very lucky that I can do so much of my work in different settings and outdoors." - Kavita Bedford, Writer's Resident Finalist

9. " Forced solitude has taught me to just ‘be’ in the in between bits and I’m becoming an expert at staring out the window, writing down bird species, underlining every surprising sentence in every book I can get my brain into and letting myself watch medical dramas as and when needed." - Ruby Gill, Writer's Resident 2021

10. "We adored our time there. It was the first time we could hear our own thoughts in a very long time. Something so beautiful about the silence and atmosphere we experienced." - Miiesha, Field Recordings Resident 2022

11. "The whole experience of being off the grid at both locations was key. With no internet to endlessly scroll away, the days felt generous and I came to realise how much comparison and social media voyeurism can stifle creativity." - Tiana Khasi, Field Recordings Resident 2022

Creativity (Concepting)

1. "I think there's pressure to be ‘on’ all the time these days, it's part of the sociological climate or something. But it doesn't work like that in my experience,” - Las Mar

2. "I need to be able to just muck around and explore. I often find it's best to be deliberately unproductive" - Las Mar

3. "It felt like I had a window wiper in my brain, like I could be there for ages! It would get to like 10pm and I would be like, ‘Wow, big day.’ But all I did was sit around and stare out the window!” - Jonti

4. "“I work a lot but I don’t get a lot done. A lot of my time is so unstructured, but this experience has made me feel like maybe I could work a little smarter." - Lucianblomkamp

5. "We need to diversify the kinds of stories that people tell about the natural world and the people who wander and frolic in it. The outdoors should literally be beyond the realm of bearded pioneers." - Georgia Frances King, literary agent.

6. There were so many birds and I think that’s one of the special things about those locations - so many birds! And they talk, they sing and they yap, but they’re so beautiful. You do pause the music because you just want to listen to it and I never pause music. - Sycco

7. "I think anything that allows a creative to connect with one's self, quieten the mind and feel one with their environment is going to help with their process. The more I read and write poetry especially, I see the intrinsic connections between nature and art, so taking nature time is crucial for me personally." - Milan Ring, recording artist.

8. I definitely come up with ideas when I’m on country! I find being in the city too noisy haha. I can’t hear myself" - Miiesha, Field Recordings II

Creativity (Songwriting)

1. “It's literally just going out there, hitting record and being surprised.” - Braille Face

2. “I could just go to the sample library of well recorded 70s drum kits and produce the same thing all the time. But when I'm inside a hollow tree, and I'm hitting the inside to get the reverb from inside that tree, well, that's an entirely different experience.” Braille Face

3. I went around and I mostly did it at night. I feel like that's when nature was the most active. I would play with [tree] bark and things just to get some texture. And the trees. Every tree had a specific sound. I never really thought about that! - Chloe Kae

4. "Deadlines are helpful for finishing tracks or working with others but for my solo process I need to have no time limits - Las Mar

5. "Productivity is for sending emails....not making music - that mind set just won't work for me.” - Las Mar

6. “Having time away from making music is just as important to me as it often provides that down time where there’s no pressure on you. You can listen to that music you wanted to, read that book, all the stuff which in turn inspires you to make more yourself” - Ex-Olympian

7. "There’s something exciting about the idea of a portable studio anywhere. The possibilities are endless; I mean, to record vocals in the sunshine...!” - Jonti.

8. "You can make sounds and lots of tiny percussive things out of like sticks, grass, some straight up wind and water. Then you have a lot of tones to play with." - Lucianblomkamp

9. It definitely gave me so much clarity coming back home to write new music. I realised that all my creative processes from before sort of dissipated. I realised I wanted to be free and let what came to me in that moment flow. - Sycco

Awe and Space

1. "Nature is big. Us humans are small. Immersing yourself in it reminds us how insignificant we truly are." - Stefan Hunt, director.

2. "When you go out surfing on a bigger day, you realise you're just a little speck in this giant blue brine." - Cam Scott, artist.

3. "Reminding myself of the big picture has had profound effects on my personal fears and anxieties. And being in nature I’m reminded of that big picture very quick." - Stefan Hunt, director

4. "I’ve always felt that the power of the elements speaks to us in a language that can be scary, but also needs to be respected. It can also teach us about ourselves" - Josh Capelin, Writer’s Residency finalist

5. "I have no idea how people function in the world without surfing. It offers me so many benefits, from exercise to that meditative isolation you get. I'm baffled by mates I grew up with that don't have the same connection to the water." - Cam Scott

6. "What we found was an emptiness that, instead of feeling as if it were some kind of loss, felt like we’d found the thing we’d been searching for all along." - Jian Wong Gen, Field Correspondent

7. "The biggest thing that wide open natural spaces gives you is the time to be bored. Just to sit in a chair and watch something which is such an underestimated hobby" - Josh Capelin, Writer’s Residency finalist

8. "We talked for a while and then stopped, preferring to listen. It felt rude interrupting; we’re the guests out here." - Steve Liew, Photographer

9. "With the sun and sweet melodies from the birds as my only alarm clock each morning, I’m reminded and inspired to hit the refresh button on a lot of areas in my life." - Emma Nevison, Field Correspondent

10. "We are organisms that require a healthy, reciprocal relationship with our environment" - Kavita Bedford, Writer's Residency Finalist

11. 'I also loved waking up and seeing nature. It’s so special, it makes you feel so connected and a part of it and grateful to be there with all the trees.' - Sycco, Future Classic artist

12. Escaping out into nature is so special because it reminds me that I’m just a little speck in the universe, just doing my own thing, we’re all doing our own things just trying to live our own little lives. - Sycco

13. "I think when we're in the city, we were very narrow with our vision space. We're very narrowed with our words and nature with its grandiosity – that’s the word yes? - gives you a perspective." - Natalia Bojanic, Form Nutrition UK co-founder

14. "Being connected with nature and the land and allowing the normality of the day-to-day to slip away and for that sense of wonder and adventure to come back in, always allows my creativity to flow." - Milan Ring, recording artist and producer

15. "We live in a ground floor flat. There's people above us. So just to have that detachment from anyone was amazing and like my boyfriend for example was like 'I just love that this no one above us right now' because we're constantly listening to like footsteps. So yeah, like feeling secluded was a big part of it." - Jess Lewis, Global Brand Manager, Aesop UK

16. We saw two deers. We saw wild hares. We saw an owl, we saw bats. This shit doesn't exist in London. Again, that sense of perspective of like, "I'm not in the city right now." Like, this is actually what the planet is. And seeing things like stars. And it's just like, these aren't experiences we have when we live in the city. So that was quite special." - Jess Lewis, Aesop Brand Manager

General Relaxation Vibes

1. "I really enjoyed the process of grinding the beans and taking in the aromatic experience of that - it made the coffee so much more worthwhile. It made me reflect that sometimes I use coffee just as a caffeine hit, rather than actually experiencing and appreciating the drink and the smell, and how much I love it." - Sam Kos, co-founder, TDA

2. ”Corporate ladder, should climb it” was replaced by “check out that gnarly tree, let’s climb it” - Steve Liew, Photographer

3. "For the first few hours, I just needed to be productive. It took me a little bit of time to really lean into why we were there, which was to actually enjoy the stillness" - Sam Kos, co-founder, TDA

4. "Things that I wouldn't find time for back in the city are now my top priorities. I write, I read, I do yoga, I cook food. Lots of healthy food. It tastes better outside, I don’t know why. But it does." - Julia Tember, Field Correspondent

5. "Something that I learned about myself and the way I work after spending a few days off grid is how much I physically embody stress and hard work through soreness in my muscles, and how good my body felt physically after even 24 hours of switching off." - Sam Kos, co-founder, TDA

6. "Maybe it was just the handfuls of Sriracha popcorn we’d just made, or the s’mores that followed, but there was a pleasing lethargy to being out there, a familiar yet new feeling that hey, maybe we actually didn’t need to do anything right now..." - Maddy Tonks, Field Correspondent

7. "When I was in the cabin, I was often struck by how physically good I felt." - Sam Kos

8. "Excellence is carrying everything for a weekend in a cart to a remote cabin and not being able to message anyone about it." - Steve Liew

9. "Switching ‘off’ from a technological perspective is the only way I can find enough silence in my head to switch on to the senses and sentences actually worth being alive for." - Ruby Gill, Writer's Resident 2021

10. 'You’re so disconnected and you realise how simple things could be and how happy you are just doing simple things. Like making a fire; that’s something we don’t really get to do. You just get so in it and you’re like ‘I made that!’ and it’s so beautiful and special and you watch it burn.' - Sycco, Future Classic artist

11. "Nature is magical, right? It's almost like this switch of listening to music. So you might be in a low mood, and then a tune that you like comes on the radio and that lifts your mood immediately. I think nature has that effect, but it's amplified" - Natalia Bojanic

12. 'No matter what genre you fall under I feel like a sense of calm is important when creating. Give your mind space in a world filled with noise.' - WALLACE, NZ recording artist

13. "[Time in nature] is also extremely therapeutic, it calms my nervous system, reconnects and re-energises me." - Milan Ring, recording artist

14. "We really didn’t want to leave, that’s how free it makes you feel up there." - Miiesha

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