The Tree Spirit Medicine of Birch is “Empowered Presence.” Birch helps us to shed what is not needed so that we can enter into a place of Empowered Presence. This presence brings us to that liminal space, that threshold, between what has been and the Great Mystery where something incredible is waiting to be known. …
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The focus of this workshop is on making topical creams for therapeutic use using herbs and other natural substances. The workshop will include both lecture and demonstration of how to prepare medicinal creams and extensive notes and recipes. It will cover all aspects of the process of making medicinal creams using only natural ingredients, including: …
In this fun and informative workshop you will learn the art of making your own effective, natural sunblocks, SPF lip balms and after-sun care products with no toxic compromises using only 100% natural and organic ingredients. What you will learn in this workshop: This workshop will include both lectures and demonstrations. Participants will receive informative, …
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Sugar Maple is “Faith.” Faith is complete heart-trust in existence itself. It is the innate knowing that there is divinity in everything – in the trees, the animals, the oceans, the mountains, the weather, the sky, the people – everything. Faith is also a deep sense of trust in the …
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Awaken your natural capacity to speak with the spirits of plants and trees. Dream journeying is a simple and effective shamanic technique through which one can communicate directly with the spirit of plants and trees to learn directly from them their wisdom, blessings, messages, and medicines. We are all born with this capacity. Dream journeying …
The Winter Solstice is this Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 10:03 a.m. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is the day with the shortest amount of daylight of the year. It marks the exact moment when half of Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun. The word solstice comes from the Latin sol, …
When I’m preparing for a Tree Spirit Medicine workshop, I first get a “calling” from a tree that it has medicine it wishes to share with us. I then dream journey to its spirit to learn its medicine. After that, I deepen my understanding of the medicine through meditation, research, contemplation and dreaming. An important …
I harvested wild grapes off our land to make juice as a toast for our upcoming Harvest Ceremony. To make wild grape juice:
In the centre of the chest, about one finger-width’s distance from the body’s midline on the right side of the chest (where we point to when we refer to ‘I’) resides the Spiritual Heart – the luminous portal between the oneness of all existence and our sense of ‘I’. The Spiritual Heart is an organ …
I first met the spirit of American Elm on July 8, 2011 while doing a plant study for Plant Spirit Medicine. In PSM, you ‘enter the dream’ in the spirit world with a plant to gather its spirit medicine. In my dream with American Elm it told me that it is a vessel which receives …