Making Wild Grape Juice
I harvested wild grapes off our land to make juice as a toast for our upcoming Harvest Ceremony. To make wild grape juice:
The Spiritual Heart & Elm
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 …
Illumination From Above – The Spirit of Elm
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 …
Excerpt from the Dream Journeying to the Plant People Manual
Your dream journey experiences always contain transformational energy and power that will open and expand you. The Plant People don’t give advice, suggestions, information, platitudes, or “shoulds.” None of which have any depth or real power. If you receive what seems like advice from a plant such as, “You need to lighten up and play …
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Tree Teaching: Why We Are Afraid to Surrender
Willow’s Tree Spirit Medicine and Inner-Vision
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow – “Clarity” (February 15)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow is “Clarity – Knowing Your Path and Purpose.” Each of us has an inherent purpose and path that we are meant to live. To not do so is the cause of much confusion and suffering. The yearning to live our vision and truth may be postponed, avoided or stifled, …
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Making Medicinal Creams Workshop (March 15)
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. It will cover all aspects of the process of making medicinal creams using only natural ingredients, including: * Different methods for preparing …
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood – “Surrender” (April 5th)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood is “Surrender.” Basswood gifts us the grounding energy of deep, wide roots which create a strong foundation and sense of security, stability, safety and trust. This place of deep rootedness anchors us that we may surrender wholeheartedly and courageously into the depths the Great Mother Mystery, the source of …
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The Tree Spirit Medicine of Wild Cherry – “Rewilding Your Heart” (May 17th)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Wild Cherry is “Rewilding Your Heart.” Rewilding literally means to make wild once again. The rewilding of your heart through the Tree Spirit Medicine of Wild Cherry brings you to the place of knowing and living through your Heart Voice. Our heart is the core of our self: our innate …
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