Category: herbalism

  • Check out Herbstalk this June

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    I am so grateful to have a blog post up today over at the Herbstalk blog: http://herbstalk.org/2014/04/seeing-through-the-eyes-of-the-client/ And if you haven’t gotten your tickets to Herbstalk, you should do it now.  The two day event is a great celebration of herbalism in an urban space, and it is very accessible in cost.  http://herbstalk.org/buy-tickets/  There are great teachers, an amazing vendor fair, and lots of opportunities to connect to others interested in herbalism.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until June!

  • Awakening the erotic

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    For many years, I have created small shrines and altars on every free surface in my house.  I collect things like driftwood and heart-shaped stones to remind me of my connection with the all-encompassing life force of the earth.  So it was a natural thing to create this small altar in the front of the teaching space for a workshop I hosted yesterday on “Herbs for Erotic Play.”  I wanted to add more items, but I was hauling bags with a hurt shoulder so I settled on simple: the yoni that resides on my medicine-making table, the chunk of rose…

  • Manifesting vision

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    About a month ago, while spending time with a friend, doing what I do instinctively–offering plant medicine when I feel called to share it–a realization (an affirmation, really) came into my mind.  “You are here to help heal people’s hearts.”         –What? Me? Casually stated, this certainly could be construed as an overactive ego–who are you to heal people’s hearts?–but when the words entered my spirit, there was no question that it was my calling that I was finally hearing named.  The medicine I make is full of roses and hawthorn, deep love and wishes for healing, whether it be flower…

  • And so we begin again

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    This time last year, I was beginning a week-long meditation retreat.  As I look back at that time, I can see the rapid decline of my health that was to come shortly thereafter.  The space of that retreat also mirrored the space that was soon to come to fruition in my life.  In that retreat, I can also see the beginning of a radical transformation in my relationship to myself. 2013 has been a year of powerful lessons, of tremendous growth, and of passages.  It has been a year of shadow-reckoning and humbleness.  I have felt myself become a wholly…